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A review by mittland
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
4.0
love him or hate him, mr King is definitely a master of terrifying concepts. a few summers ago, I picked this up from the library but I only got through the foreword before I had to put it down, faced with the horror of the irreversible. I'm not really scared of King's pseudo-racist ideas of native American monsters or his version of evil but the death of a family member... that's too much to read about on a summer day. but the film version of this is one of my favorites so I had to read this eventually, and it really is one of his better works.
there's not as much strange, repressed horniness as in some of his other books, and his corny Americana vibes are pretty charming here (once again, maybe because I like the movie so much). the execution definitely does not live up to the premise, but I think that would be near impossible. don't really care for the actual scenes of horror violence, they're not very convincing, but overall the vibe is effectively bleak. fun times.
there's not as much strange, repressed horniness as in some of his other books, and his corny Americana vibes are pretty charming here (once again, maybe because I like the movie so much). the execution definitely does not live up to the premise, but I think that would be near impossible. don't really care for the actual scenes of horror violence, they're not very convincing, but overall the vibe is effectively bleak. fun times.