Pet Semetary 2: Wow! What a piece of crap

I was unaware this film even existed and after suffering through it I think there are some very good reasons for this. I don't know if I have ever seen a movie with a decent budget be so horrible and can't believe that Stephen King allowed this (if he even had any say in it.

Directly after the immense success of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Edward Furlong would exhibit, quite profoundly actually, that he didn't really have much chance of a future in acting because of his wooden performances that are only accented by being in films with far greater actors than he is.

This isn't necessarily the case in Pet Semetary 2 because everyone in the film other than Clancy Brown is just awful. Outside of Brown's performance this looks like something so amateurish that I am relatively convinced that some of the home movies that myself and my friends painstakingly made with a camcorder are far more entertaining.

The story, as you would expect is completely absurd because all the really needs to happen in a Pet Semetary film is for people to somehow need to put pets, and then later people, into the burial ground that raises them from the dead.

Logic would dictate that after the events that transpired in this city that people would have wizened up to the fact that the Indian burial ground is actually very dangerous and should be shut far away from any sort of possibility for human interactions but nah... everyone can just kind of wander in and out of there - which although stupid i will admit is pretty critical to this horrible story happening in the first place.

So how did Jeff (Furlong) and his father end up in this community? Well, in a completely unnecessary and stupid establishing shot Jeff's mother is a famous movie star who is tragically killed on a movie set. After her death Jeff and his father Chase (portrayed in an incredibly weak manner by Anthony Edwards - who surprisingly would win multiple Emmys after learning how to act) move to a remote town in Maine because... why not! We don't need Los Angeles and Maine is practically next door, right?

Jeff becomes friends with school fatty named Drew who is not only abused at school but also by his stepfather Gus who was played by the aforementioned only good actor in this turd of a film. Gus maliciously shoots Drew's dog one night and well he needs to go bury the dog right? What better place to do that than the reanimation studio!

At this point the movie drags and we are simply waiting for the moment to arrive where they are going to bury a person and since Jeff's mother was killed at the start of the film we already know that eventually she is going to be one of them. What we didn't expect is for several other people to end up getting turned into the undead as well.

A series of nonsensical events combined with terrible acting and worse CGI as far as the dog is concerned is what follows.

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Nobody seems to realize that there is something wrong with the dog whose eyes just happen to be glowing red all the time and is very prone to intense violence and has seeping wounds that never heal. No cause for alarm at all.

At times it is almost amusing because when they do eventually raise Jeff's mother from the dead, she has been dead for quite some time but her reanimated corpse doesn't have any signs of being anyone who was ever dead - the other two zombie folk have maintained all of their wounds though and well, this is just the sort of lack of consistency that you can go ahead and add to the long line of things that are wrong with this film. The fact that it is essentially the first film with new actors doesn't add much to the likability.

This film should only be watched by people who want to revel in just how horribly bad it is, perhaps with your finger very close to the fast-forward button because I can assure you, the story is completely irrelevant and ridiculous. I would imagine that the studio was attempting to capitalize on both the generally favorable memories people had of the original film and also Edward Furlong's quickly unraveling fame.

Stephen King, presumably upon seeing the film before it was released, had his name removed from the film and refused to be associated with it in any fashion.

My overall rating! 2 / 10