The Boston Globe, April 21st, 1989
PET SEMATARY -- Directed by Mary Lambert, screenplay by Stephen King based on his novel. Starring Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Blaze Berdahl, Miko Hughes, Brad Greenquist. At the Cinema 57 and suburbs, rated R (slashings, immolations, gore, animal killings, zombies). "Pet Sematary" falls somewhere in the middle of the films made from Stephen King's novels. It's better than 'Cujo" and "Firestarter," but nowhere near "Carrie" and "The Shining," which it dimly echoes. Roach motels are scarier. Like "The Shining," with its story of a blocked writer who resents his family for claiming ...
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