Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

"Death is different here."

2023 1h 27m EN

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★5.5TMDB · 448

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In 1969, young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that forever binds him to Ludlow.

“Death is different here.”

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Cast

Jackson White
Jud
Forrest Goodluck
Manny
Jack Mulhern
Timmy Baterman
Henry Thomas
Dan Crandall
Natalie Alyn Lind
Norma
Isabella Star LaBlanc
Donna
Pam Grier
Majorie Washburn
David Duchovny
Bill Baterman

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Lindsey Anderson Beer
Writers: Lindsey Anderson Beer, Jeff Buhler
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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87 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Pet Sematary (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer, shot by Jean Kavanagh. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jan Kovac shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Jackson White and Forrest Goodluck and Jack Mulhern carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Death is different here.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt14145436 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Lindsey Anderson Beer directs. Jean Kavanagh behind the camera. Jan Kovac cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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187 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 3 years ago.
3Part of the "Pet Sematary (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer, shot by Jean Kavanagh. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Jan Kovac shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Jackson White and Forrest Goodluck and Jack Mulhern carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Death is different here.".
8IMDB entry: tt14145436 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 12 themes, including "cemetery", "gore", "sequel", "prequel".
10Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Jean Kavanagh
Editing: Jan Kovac
Production design: Adam Scher
Makeup / hair: Crissy Renaud
VFX supervisor: Ohkba Ameziane-Hassani
Sound: P.K. Hooker
Stunt coordinator: Jean Frenette
Runtime: 87 min · 1h 27m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023)

Part of

Pet Sematary (Reboot) Collection

The second series of film adaptations based on Stephen King's 1983 novel.

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Dr Nostromo2026-01-03
★ 4/10
42/100 Takes place in 1969, when Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne in the original) was a young man, and also delves into the origins of the pet sematary. In that, it presented some interesting ideas and concepts and I was enjoying the story but the problem was in the story telling. To take a group of individuals, who were supposed be the experts in this situation over the course of centuries, and make them completely and utterly stupid to provide us with a few kills is just lazy writing. Come on, you can do better than that. In the end, I didn't much care anymore. Rather silly really. -- DrNostromo
JPRetana2026-05-31
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023) automatically makes the original, however good or bad it may have been, orders of magnitude better, if only by comparison. However, I would go out on a limb that the 2019 remake had already achieved that goal. In the 1989 film, a dead cat interred in the titular burial ground came back as an undead real cat (in my definition of “real cat,” a live animal and a prop such as an animatronic puppet may overlap). In Bloodlines, a dog undergoes the same process but returns as a crummy computer-generated visual effect. That’s some evil hoodoo right there. You can’t expect too much from a movie wherein the moral of the story is placed at the beginning of the story — akin to putting the cart in front of the horse, but then that’s what all prequels do. Moreover, didn’t we learn that “sometimes, dead is better” 34 years ago? Forty, if we go all the way back to the novel. Bloodlines is not just dumb; it’s retroactively dumb. The plot, such as it is, expands on an anecdote that Fred Gwynne told Dale Midkiff in Sematary ‘89, revolving around a local man called Bill Baterman who buried his young son Timmy after he was killed near the end of World War II (retconned to Vietnam in Bloodlines), only for Timmy to come back from the dead as a Monster from Beyond the Veil. Gwynne’s character, Jud Crandall, now played by Jackson White, discovers that “the founding families” — including his own ancestors — of the town of Ludlow, Maine, “made a pact when this town was founded” to stop whatever evil lurks beyond the woods “from spreading.” This revelation results in a flashback in a film that is itself a glorified flashback. In a nutshell, the town’s original settlers first encountered the evil in the year of Our Lord 1674. The obvious question is, what kind of an idiot would establish a town there? Seriously, these guys find that the leader of their expedition has been turned into a homicidal revenant, and somehow they go, “hey, why don’t we build a town right here in this place that is lousy with crop rot — even though we’ve been “tasked with finding fertile land” — and name it after our friend whom we just saw feasting on human entrails?” Baterman (David Duchovny) buries Timmy (Jack Mulhern) and Timmy’s dog with the expected results, and the dog attacks Jud’s girlfriend Norma (Natalie Alyn Lind) before eventually being put down by mailwoman Marjorie (Pam Grier) — because who better than a postal worker, a dog’s natural enemy, to deal with a zombie pooch? I understand Baterman wishing to be reunited with his only son, but the dog too? To make a dumb story short, Jud ends up assuming his father’s mantle as the caretaker “of the fucked-up land we created,” and his parting words are “stay the fuck out of Ludlow.” What co-writer/director Lindsey Anderson Beer apparently forgot is that old man Crandall was all too eager to share the secret of the pet cemetery with Midkiff’s character, and even helped him bury the aforementioned cat (by the time he warned Midkiff against burying his dead baby in the “sour ground,” it was already too late). Thus, through the filmmaker’s poor attention to detail, the hero will have gone from “stay the fuck out of Ludlow” to “come one, come all to the Pet Sematary.”

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