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Pet Sematary
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4182
- IMDb #3394
- Google retired #3610
- Rotten Tomatoes #3270
- Metacritic #4617
- Letterboxd #3092
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3578
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3365
- Metacritic Critics #4414
- Metacritic Audience #4610
- Criticker #2429
- Douban #1591
- Kinopoisk #2408
- AlloCiné #3584
- Trakt #3492
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 38, highest is Douban on 71. Critics average 46, everyone else 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A doctor moves his family to a rural home in Maine, where they discover a mysterious pet cemetery hidden in the woods near their property. After a family tragedy, the doctor learns of the cemetery's sinister power to restore life to the dead. Grief-stricken and against the warnings of a local man, he is tempted to use the ancient burial ground, with horrifying consequences.
Details
- Director
- Mary Lambert
- Writer
- Stephen King
- Based on
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 21 April 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $11.5M
- Box office
- $57.5M
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