10 Horror Movies That Just Aren’t Scary
7. Pet Sematary
1989’s Pet Sematary is a movie that’s focussed on dealing with the loss of a loved one. In amongst the runtime of that Mary Lambert-directed picture, however, were some fantastic, jarring scares that were used at the exact right moments. For this year’s Pet Sematary remake, mind, things were very different.
Sadly, the 2019 take on Stephen King’s beloved novel struggled with its identity. But one thing the film most certainly was not, was a scary horror movie.
This most recent take on King’s source material lacked the heart of said source material and of that ’89 offering, yet there was still hope that the film might at least offer some gruesome goodness for horror hounds.
Unfortunately, despite a heavy marketing campaign indicating so, and the movie itself seeming to think of itself as scary, the end result was a dour, disappointing dud that struggled to generate even the most minimal of shrieks from audiences.
As the famous tagline of Pet Sematary reads "sometimes dead is better". And for this remake, there was no reason whatsoever to bring the property back to life.