This is marked as spoilers but I'll not write any spoilers for any reader who isn't already a Stephen King (SK) fan. If you are not a Stephen King fan, please skip to the last paragraph of the review.
*ONLY SK FANS WITH VERY LITTLE SPOILERS* My wife who didn't see the original hated it. I, a shiny-eyed SK fan who read practically every word that Mr. King wrote and got really scared only from the Pet Semetary book thought that I'm willing to consider a remake especially that I still have to see an adaptation of an SK work that felt like the book. The Mist and 1408 came closer than any others but overall movie makers, even when SK himself wrote the screen script, failed to convey the eerie feeling of the story. I was very pleased with The Mist though to the point of going into new SK adaptations with a clear mind and no expectations.
Pet Semetary for some reason diverted fundamentally from the book and the original. The reason SK chose to kill off Gage rather than Ellie is because the "returned" were primal creatures that had no soul. This movie makers chose to have Ellie as "returned" and basically portray her as a physical demon spawn evil spirit who could talk and interact with people and physically hurt them.
*NON-SK-Fans* Pet Semetary 2019 is basically a monster flick that has very little to do with the original SK story. It's probably not a bad watch if you are not familiar with the original work. It's certainly watchable but it's a not a very scary movie.
3/10 because the acting was decent but the movie wasn't really half as scary as I expected.
*ONLY SK FANS WITH VERY LITTLE SPOILERS* My wife who didn't see the original hated it. I, a shiny-eyed SK fan who read practically every word that Mr. King wrote and got really scared only from the Pet Semetary book thought that I'm willing to consider a remake especially that I still have to see an adaptation of an SK work that felt like the book. The Mist and 1408 came closer than any others but overall movie makers, even when SK himself wrote the screen script, failed to convey the eerie feeling of the story. I was very pleased with The Mist though to the point of going into new SK adaptations with a clear mind and no expectations.
Pet Semetary for some reason diverted fundamentally from the book and the original. The reason SK chose to kill off Gage rather than Ellie is because the "returned" were primal creatures that had no soul. This movie makers chose to have Ellie as "returned" and basically portray her as a physical demon spawn evil spirit who could talk and interact with people and physically hurt them.
*NON-SK-Fans* Pet Semetary 2019 is basically a monster flick that has very little to do with the original SK story. It's probably not a bad watch if you are not familiar with the original work. It's certainly watchable but it's a not a very scary movie.
3/10 because the acting was decent but the movie wasn't really half as scary as I expected.