Paramount Plus is currently producing a television movie prequel to the recent Stephen King horror remake Pet Sematary, but the new outing of the franchise is already repeating the remake’s biggest error in judgment. Released in 2019, Pet Sematary was a critically maligned remake of the 1989 original movie of the same name. Both horror movies are based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King, wherein the eponymous cursed location is used to bring a dead child back to life with grave consequences.

To be fair to 2019’s Pet Sematary remake, director Mary Lambert’s 1989 original was not met with universally positive reviews upon its initial release. However, time has been kind to the strange, surreal, spiky black comedy of Lambert’s inventive take on the tale, whereas a lot went wrong with 2019’s Pet Sematary. With no compelling antagonist, an alluded-to but never-seen wendigo, and a terrible marketing campaign, the remake deserved its brutal reviews much more than its misunderstood predecessor.

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Fortunately for fans of King, streaming service Paramount Plus recently announced that they would be producing a television movie prequel to the 2019 remake, and this could have provided an opportunity for the franchise to right its wrongs. Unfortunately, the prequel has recently cast an actor, Jackson White, in the role of young Jud Crandall, proving that the creators are only interested in depicting the past of the titular graveyard via the perspective of a 20th century suburban American. This approach is a mistake, as bringing the Pet Sematary prequel back to its Native mythology roots would have offered the creators an opportunity to give a more diverse, interesting, and unfamiliar take on the tale.

The Native American burial ground that the titular Pet Sematary is built over is a hoary, outdated horror cliche that has cropped up in everything from Poltergeist to earlier King adaptation The Shining. However, it also a setting that gave a Pet Sematary prequel a chance to subvert viewers' expectations when it comes to the horror genre’s conventions, by depicting the story of the original creators of the Sematary and explaining how it came to be so dangerous but seductive to those devastated by grief. 1999’s underrated Ravenous proved that the wendigo could be a compelling horror antagonist and earlier King adaptation It Chapter Two squandered its chance to depict the title character’s Native American roots in the Ritual of Chud sequence, so Pet Sematary’s prequel could have been an opportunity to right both of these wrongs.

However, the casting of a young Jud Crandall proves that the prequel will likely instead travel the more predictable path of simply retelling Pet Sematary's plot a generation earlier. Not only is this a disappointing missed opportunity to tell more a diverse, inventive horror story, but the fact that prospective viewers already know that Jud dies in pretty woeful circumstances as an elderly man means there is no tension around whether or not the protagonist will survive this horror prequel. It’s an unfortunate approach for the creators to take, and one that may well leave this prequel feeling as listless and unnecessary as its 2019 Pet Sematary remake, despite the one thing it got right.

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