Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Starring Jackson White, Natalie Alyn Lind, Forrest Goodluck, Isabella Star LaBlanc
Directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer

You ever see a movie that, once it ended, you immediately forget everything you saw? Like as soon as the credits ended you stand up and think to yourself, "what was I just doing?" Now did you ever have that happen WHILE you were actually watching the movie? Like as you're sitting there watching it you're thinking to yourself, "I've been paying attention, but I have absolutely no idea what's going on?" Not like in a highly cerebral storyline that leaves you confused due to its impeccable and intelligent writing, but because the movie was so bland, boring, lifeless, and utterly nonexistent? Well, that's what "Pet Sematary: Bloodlines" was for me - a movie I forgot about while I was watching it, proving the tired saying that the film likes to say: "sometimes dead is better."

In 1969, Jed Crandall (Jackson White) is planning on leaving the small town of Ludlow, Maine with his girlfriend Norma (Natalie Alyn Lind), but before they can leave she's attacked by a dog belonging to Jed's old friend Timmy (Jack Mulhern) and is taken to the hospital. Jud sticks around and finds that his former friend isn't who he seems, as he exhibits strange behaviors which centers around the mysterious pet cemetery that's been a source of evil in the town since the 1600s.


The Good:
Some of the gore was fun.


The Bad:
Everything else. Probably. I don't really remember. All I remember is that the story didn't make sense. Timmy, I think, died and his father took him to the cemetery to be resurrected and now he's a zombie-like person or something. Then there's a rabid dog, or it might've also been buried at the cemetery, and something to do with a flashback to the 1600s, and none of the characters had any development nor any point of existence at all. It's not even good for a made-for-streaming movie. It just doesn't warrant its need to exist in any capacity.


The Verdict:
Sometimes dead is better, and sometimes it's better to leave a beloved Stephen King novel alone - especially when it's a wannabe fan-made prequel like "Pet Sematary: Bloodlines."


The Score: D-

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