7 Stephen King Adaptations That Are Unintentionally Hilarious

3. Pet Sematary II

After his actress wife is electrocuted on set (don€™t ask), Anthony Edwards buys a house near an Indian burial ground whose residents, we know from past experience, stay buried for a few hours before returning with glowing eyes and homicidal tendencies. Edwards€™ son, played by T2€™s Edward Furlong, eventually puts 2 and 2 together and decides to bury a dog killed by the psychotic Sheriff (Clancy Brown). When the mutt comes back as a red-eyed, slobbering hound from hell, there isn€™t much Edwards can do for him (€œI€™m not getting a heartbeat!€) so the dog bails and, finding Brown about to beat his son to death with a grave marker (no really, don€™t ask), rips the Sheriff€™s throat out. Reasoning that the only way out of a hole is to dig deeper, Furlong and co give Brown an Indian burial, which you have to question the logic of, given that the Sheriff had suggested he€™d shtupped Furlong€™s mom. A card-carrying asshole while alive, the revived Brown is a no-holds-barred psycho who forces himself on his wife, shoves a kid€™s face into a spinning motorcycle wheel and, most heinously, shows Furlong a mouthful of mashed potato at the dinner table. Oh, and he also offs his family before helping Furlong steal his mom€™s corpse. Aimed at a juvenile audience (of all ages), this was such a box office washout it didn€™t even merit a straight-to-video third instalment starring William Shatner, John Stamos and Alexandra Paul. Wouldn€™t you pay to see that? Didn€™t think so.