Pet Sematary Review: 4 Ups & 4 Downs

Whilst the visuals of the film definitely fall into that 'everything is blue, black, and misty' aesthetic that we see so often in horror, Pet Sematary does manage to establish a great sense of unease from the very outset with its attention to detail. The cemetery itself is suitably creepy, bringing to life a rustling woodland behind the house that feels like a living entity in its inaudible whispers and eerie movements. It's not somewhere we want to be taken too, yet are forced to tread further and further into this barren - but not empty - wasteland.

The tone of the movie is at its most effective when we're taken back to Rachel Creed's childhood, where we witness a traumatising past that ekes in to the present with each terrifying thump from the attic. Though these moments are short, and in essence conventional, there's nothing wrong with the good dose of well-executed terror running through the heart of this movie - even though we've seen similar to it plenty of times before.