Our lookbacks at the screen adaptations of Stephen King arrive at Pet Sematary 2… As a result, the audience is uncomfortably close to everything that happens to them.
The problem is that in going large, Outtens screenplay ironically leaves Lambert with very little room to manoeuvre.
The film also feels at odds with itself.
On the one hand, its a story exploring how a teenage boy overcomes the grief of his mother.
Lambert built that atmosphere beautifully and used the violence as moments of punctuation rather than a constant.
Partly this is to do with the central performances.
Edwards doesnt fare too much better as his concerned father, looking thoroughly unbothered by everything.
There are bright spots in there.
The make-up effects for the walking dead people are suitably gruesome with a side of nauseating.
Its certainly a case of when bigger fails to mean better.
Its a nasty, lingering moment that almost gives you your own face ache.
Its especially good at capturing the melancholic tone that flits in and out between the bigger moments.
A King thing:What to pick?
Outten seems to throw the proverbial King kitchen sink.
Were back in Maine, of course.
