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Although the credits omit all reference to horror maestro Stephen King, Pet Sematary II is basically content to recycle the key elements of the 1989 original – a small town with a creepy cemetery, ghastly resurrection of dead animals and humans, black humour and heavy metal music. Crisply directed by Mary Lambert (Siesta, 1987), this sequel is angled more towards a teen audience with its central focus on a boy (Edward Furlong), his best friend and a troublesome school bully. (Lambert was later to find her undervalued niche in teen-melo-telemovies.) The film delivers ably within its strict generic contract. Viewers of a psychoanalytic bent will want to sort out the story's insistent association of the boy's dead actress mother (electrocuted on set in the first scene) with a particularly large and vicious white dog. MORE Lambert: Face of Evil © Adrian Martin July 1993 |
