A famous celebrity named
Renee Hallow (Darlanne Fluegel) gets
electrocuted to death during a failed
film shoot as her son named Jeff Matthews
(Edward Furlong) watched what happened
and is badly shaken by it all.
Him and his father Chase
(Anthony Edwards) move into a new home by
the Pet Semetary and is greeted by their
new housekeeper named Marjorie Hargrove
(Sarah Trigger) whom is a fan of Renee's
but Jeff doesn't seem to take a liking to
her thinking that she is moving in to
their lives.
Jeff is badly bullied by kids at school
led by Clyde Parker (Jared Rushton) after
his Mom's death but meets up with a burly
kid named Drew Gilbert (Jason McGuire) as
he is troubled by his stepfather and
local sheriff named Gus (Clancy Brown)
whom abuses him and mocks his weight as
well as not getting enough of his mother
Amanda (Lisa Waltz) plus hating the dog
of theirs.
Well one day the dog was bothering the
rabbits Gus caged up for meals and shoots
the dog as Drew and Jeff bring the dead
dog to the Pet Semetary nearby but Drew
tells him about an indian burial ground
nearby and plans to resurrect his dog
which freaks Jeff out a bit.
After his dog is buried there the dog
returns but is not the same as on
Halloween night Drew and Jeff get
together with Clyde and his friends to
party out at the cemetary but Gus catches
them and beats up Drew and suddenly his
dog comes to the rescue and kills Gus.
Drew feels he has no choice but to take
Gus' corpse up to the burial ground so
his Mom won't know what had happened.
Gus seems more childish
after returning and more fun to be with
but is more brutal towards Amanda. He
will even kill people who do bad deeds
now which puts both Drew and Amanda in
deadly danger.
Jeff is still disturbed
by the death of his mother and starts to
lose it as he gets Gus to help resurrect
her at the burial ground again while
Chase finds out the history of that place
after what happened to the family who
resided there before.
This film was
almost as disturbing and dark as the
first one. It shows different characters
but it was definetely based on the
original film with what was told in it.
We also have some highschool bullies
which suits the film along with an
abusive stepfather to a dysfunctional
family which blends the plot well to turn
into a horror film.
There's some elements of Night of
the Demons after the dead is
resurrected from the burial ground with
their actions along with some Freddy
Krueger humor from the Elm Street
sequels as it lightens the story a bit
after the first film.
There's tons of shocks in the film
sometimes making it hard to watch as well
as great imaginative one's too. If you
like the first one then check this one
out too.
The acting is well
done like in the first one as this was Edward
Furlong's next successful film after
his debut performance in Terminator
2: Judgement Day. He shows great
intensity with his actions and nice
coldness quarter way through the film as
he made all of this convincing.
Anthony Edwards does well as his
sympathetic father with his actions and
understanding making him look like a
realistic fatherly type.
Clancy Brown played a great asshole
sheriff in the film with his nasty
actions and violent behavior like you
wouldn't want him in your everyday life.
He also does well with his evil humor
after being resurrected. He can almost
meet up to Robert Englund. He
was quite often typecast playing these
tpyes of roles in shows and is excellent
with what he does.
We have another nice performance by Jared
Rushton as a school bully and was
convincing enough for you to want to hurt
him severly for his nasty deeds. Well
done Jared!
Darlanne Fluegel was great with her
soft words as a ghost in the film and
really pulls it off well with her
creepiness.
We have a performance with burly young
actor Jason McGuire who pulls
his part off well as a dweeby troubled
youth following others in order not to
get hurt.
Sarah Trigger says her word
perfectly playing a friendly housekeeper
and shows a perfect bubbly attitude too.
Lisa Waltz looked perfect as the
passive mother and remarried one to an
abusive sheriff as she really looked
disturbed about her dysfunctional family
and frightened emotions too.
There's a small role by Jim Peck
as a taxidermist but he really knew how
to act insane with his words about what
happened in the past.
There's a breast shot on
Darlanne
Fluegel while opening up her
blouse during a ghostly encounter with
her ex-husband in bed
Gus' neck is
chewed open by the evil dead dog
There are slaughtered kittens in a kennel
(I hate to say this folks but remember,
it's only a movie)
Gus slaughters a bunch of rabbits for
dinner
The dead dog took a chunk out of Chase
Matthews shoulder as well as a drill
through his shoulder
An eye is stabbed
Clyde's face is devoured after
resurrected and later on his head is
blown up after a fuse in his mouth
Renee's face is melting
Mary Lambert returned
to direct this piece and still knows how
to make it disturbing too.
She shows a perfect dark beginning with
the camera shots on a deep dark forest
and the full moon as well.
There's a real intense scene with
supporting actress Darlanne
Fluegel getting ready to do a scene
shoot and gets electrocuted along with a
perfect close up shot on Edward
Furlong scream her name and crying
intensely.
There's a great shot on a cat leaping
towards Furlong and then running
away as it almost makes you jump.
We also have a funny shot on a kitten
running into the hallway and then a dog
chasing after it.
There's also a disturbing moment with Furlong
being tormented by supporting actor Jared
Rushton as he portrays a school
bully running off with his kitten as you
hope the kitten will be okay along with
great shots on them speeding away on
their bicycle's.
There's a good brawling scene between Furlong
and Rushton too but of course Rushton
nearly beats the crap out of him.
This was well directed that you feel like
going insane and killing this prick.
We have a nice scene with Furlong
rescuing his kitten from a cage at the
Pet Semetary with Jason McGuire
approaching from behind him and a nice
friendly dialogue with the two.
We have a good shot on Clancy Brown
watching Lisa Waltz as his wife
bending down to open an oven and then him
hitting on her which looks like a
realistic active couple.
There's a good nasty scene with Brown
mocking McGuire at the dinner
table on cutting back what he's eating
and then McGuire acts sarcastic,
then a good threat by Brown
towards him which truly makes the scene
dysfunctional.
We have a good lustful scene between Waltz
and Brown and then a nice
aggressive act by Brown running out of
the house with his shotgun towards a dog.
There's a good sad direction between McGuire
grieving and holding his dog that is
dying which looked believeably emotional.
There's a great scene with McGuire
holding his dead dog with Furlong walking
to a Pet Sematary and then the creepy
long hill to the burial ground as Lambert
still gives it that chilling feel.
There's a good shot on the two walking
afterwards on the side of the road with Brown
driving in his police vehicle next
to them and getting demanding with McGuire
to get in.
There's a good stern attitude with Anthony
Edwards towards Furlong for
getting in late and Furlong
shows a nice exhausted expression on his
face telling him that he just wants to go
to bed.
We have a good shot on Fluegal at
the pet cemetary and then a great spooked
reaction on Furlong falling down
later on realising it was a dumming along
with a good camera shot looking up on
Rushton and the other suppoting cast
playing his friends and mocking him.
We have a tense moment with Brown
towards Waltz demanding to know
where his son is at as it does look like
he will hit her if she doesn't answer.
There's a great shot on the cast of kids
fleeing after they spot Brown
approaching the cemetary.
We have a great tense shot with Brown
hitting McGuire and then
grabbing a wooden crucifix and then a
good shot on the dead dog clenching it's
teeth and attacking Brown as it
almost draws a smile on your face for
doing a nasty deed.
We have a good appearance by Brown
resurrected at his house sounding ghostly
asking his stepson for his keys and then
saying he found them with a ghostly grin
on his face and holding the keys.
We have a nice menacing performance with
Brown molesting Waltz and
her freaking out.
We have a great sequence with Rarlanne
Fluegel with a blue light shining on
her acting lustful towards Anthony
Edwards and then a great shot on the
dead dog attacking him in bed which makes
you wonder if it's a dream.
There's a good and crazy moment at a
dinner table with Brown acting
gross and crazy while eating potatoes.
We have great blocking with Rushton
knocking Furlong off the road
and then almost forcing his face towards
a spinning wheel of his bike.
There's a perfect moment with Brown
punching out Rushton and then
turning on his motorwheel bike towards
his face along with a good shot on Brown
laughing.
we have a perfect shot on Brown
breaking open a house door in a Shining
type of fashion and then trying to attack
McGuire.
There's great shots on a vehicle chase
with Brown chasing after McGuire
and Waltz which looked very
diturbing indeed.
We have a good silent moment with
Furlong in an attic having his Mom's
dress ready acting disturbed and silent
and then Edwards trying to talk
to him and Furlong telling him
he's going to resurrect his mother which
looked quite cold.
There's a great dialogue between
Edwards entering a house of a
taxidermist played by Jim Peck when
he tells him about the Creed's and what
had happened as it looks terrifically and
insanely directed.
We have a nice scene between Brown
and Furlong burying a corpse at
a burial ground.
There's great shots between Furlong
and Fluegel approaching one
another in the attic with cold devilish
expressions.
There's a great dark looking battle
between Edwards and Brown
in his house as well as Furlong against
a resurrected Rushton as there's
the odd humor in it too with the one
liners.
We have a nice shot on Fluegal with
her face melting and pleading Furlong
to stay with her as you really feel like
sympathising.
There's perfect dark violin
sounds during the opening credits.
We have perfect moaning sounds while
there is a burying scene at the burial
ground.
There's also some good synthesizer music
mixed with some fast paced violin playing
and the odd guitar riff.
We have many songtracks
from some in your face rock music and
have a closing credits by the Ramone's
with "Poison Heart". However,
it's nowhere as good as their theme song
from the first flick.
Clyde Parker: [holding
Jeff's cat] You ever seen a kitten
run before?
Jeff Matthews: Yeah.
Clyde Parker: No, I mean REALLY
run. Like this!
[takes off]
Gilbert: Come on
Clyde, just tell him where the cat is.
Clyde Parker: I all ready told
where the cat is, now SHUT UP DICK WAD...
What? You gonna sic big bad old Gus on
me?
Gus Gilbert: Now I
thought we were going to tone down on
your flabby ass.
Drew Gilbert: Hey, I'm so sorry
I'm not the stud you are.
Gus Gilbert: Get
your ass out here Drew Gilbert, front and
center!
Drew Gilbert: He is gonna kick my
ass!
Jeff Matthews: Drew,
I know your dog died, but get a grip,
man, you're freaking me out!
Gus Gilbert: No
Brain, no pain... think about it.
Clyde Parker: What
are you doing, man?
Gus Gilbert: I'm just fuckin' with
ya'!
[zipping up Clyde's
corpse in a body bag]
Gus Gilbert: Takin' you up the
hill, Clyde-buddy. That's the way the
Indians did it.
Chase Matthews: [after
he has shot Zowie the dog] What are
you doing?
Gus Gilbert: Well, I WAS building
a doggy door.
Renee Hallow: Jeff,
I love you. Stay with me, Dead Is BETTER!
DEAD IS BETTER! STAY WITH ME, OH GOD!
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