Mary Lambert's adaptation of Stephen King's darkest novel still has the power to scare.

Pet Sematary marks the first time Stephen King has adapted his own book for the screen, and the result is undead schlock dulled by a slasher-film mentality - squandering its chilling and fertile source material.

Like its predecessors (though this time scripted by the author himself), Lambert's leaden, morbid, rather nasty adaptation of Stephen King's novel fails to solv

Read the Empire Movie review of Pet Sematary. Literary success fails to make the leap to film again, with another hacked-up, sloppy screenplay...

Horror novelist Stephen King makes sentences like Wonder makes bread-soft, insubstantial, easy to digest-but there`s no denying that he`s a popular artist of uncommon gifts. Under the guise of the supernatural thriller, his books deal indirectly but powerfully with significant pressure points in American culture.His favorite themes are the dangerous imbalance of power between the […]