Film Review – Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

There wasn’t much excitement surrounding the release of 2019’s “Pet Sematary,” which offered an updated take on the Stephen King novel, trying to compete with a previous film adaptation from 1989. However, profit is profit, and the feature did small-time business on a minimal budget, inspiring the producers to try and milk the brand name once again, this time going the prequel route with “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines,” which examines the horrors of Ludlow, Maine in the 1960s. The story for the picture is actually part of King’s book, but here, it’s the whole show, with screenwriters Jeff Buhler and Lindsey Anderson Beer (who also directs) on a mission to make something out of this small piece of local history, hoping to resurrect some of the dark “Pet Sematary” magic for another round of small-town violence involving the newly reanimated. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com