History YMMV / PetSematary2019

* [[ContestedSequel Contested Reboot]]: Overall opinions on the film varies among horror fans. Those who enjoyed the original film criticized this take for making unnecessary changes to the story, poorer special effects and a more "generic" form of scares. Alternatively, those who didn’t have prior nostalgia to the original saw this as a scarier film in comparison with more believable acting, creepier atmosphere, and appreciate the more psychological, dreamlike imagery. There’s also a smaller [[TakeAThirdOption third party]] who enjoy both films and judge them on their own merits. About the only thing that is agreed on is that either one is a better film than [[Film/PetSemataryTwo the original’s sequel]].

* [[ContestedSequel Contested Reboot]]: Overall opinions on the film varies among horror fans. Those who enjoyed the original film criticized this take for making unnecessary changes to the story, poorer special effects and a more "generic" form of scares. Alternatively, those who don’t have prior nostalgia to the original saw this as a scarier film in comparison with more believable acting and appreciate the more psychological imagery. There’s also a smaller, [[TakeAThirdOption third party]] who enjoy both games and judge them on their own merits. About the only thing that is agreed on is that either one is a better film than [[Film/PetSemataryTwo the original’s sequel]].

* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: You have four [[OurZomibesareDifferent intelligent, homicidal zombies]] who may or may be in fact [[EldritchAbomination monstrosities]] from god-knows-where. And they have a means to slowly and subtly convert an entire army of fellow intelligent, and again, ''[[AxeCrazy homicidal]]'' zombies. And no one knows they exist, which means that little family of zombies is now ground zero for the ZombieApocalypse.]]

* TheWoobie: Gage. [[spoiler:He loses his older sister Ellie and, as a result, ends up having nightmares of losing his family. And later he has to witness his older sister [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] and terrorize his family. He ends up losing both his mom and dad at the end of the film and is doomed to live with his undead family for the rest of his life with implications he is likely next to be killed then [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] too.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Church getting killed then becoming an undead cat is more [[LifeImitatesArt eerie in real-life]] when one of the cats, Leo, who played him, died just over a month after this film's theatrical release.
* HilariousInHindsight: The original book and film involved Louis having to deal with an undead Gage. This time, aside from Ellie being the UndeadChild instead, [[spoiler:Louis and Gage have switched places by the end of the movie]].

* TheWoobie: Gage. [[spoiler:He loses his older sister Ellie and, as a result, ends up having nightmares of losing his family. And later he has to witness his older sister [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] and terrorize his family. He ends up losing both his mom and dad at the end of the film and is doomed to live with his undead family for the rest of his life with implications he is likely next to be killed then [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] too.]]

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The original book and film involved Louis having to deal with an undead Gage. This time, aside from Ellie being the UndeadChild instead, [[spoiler:Louis and Gage have switched places by the end of the movie]].

** FridgeHorror: [[spoiler: You have four [[OurZomibesareDifferent intelligent, homicidal zombies]] who may or may be in fact [[EldritchAbomination monstrosities]] from god-knows-where. And they have a means to slowly and subtly convert an entire army of fellow intelligent, and again, ''[[AxeCrazy homicidal]]'' zombies. And no one knows they exist, which means that little family of zombies is now ground zero for the ZombieApocalypse.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Church getting killed then becoming an undead cat is more [[LifeImitatesArt eerie in real-life]] when the cat who plays him died just over a month after this film's theatrical release.

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:Even if Gage is killed and brought back by the Sematary...what ''[[AndThenWhat is the family's motives afterwards?]]'' Are they just live as an undead family? Will they lure other people to be killed and brought back? Considering the ColdOpen showing the door to the Creed house is closed as Jud's house burns down, it might as well imply the family will live in their home as an undead family.]]
* HarsherInHindsight: Church getting killed then becoming an undead cat is more [[LifeImitatesArt eerie in real-life]] when the cat who plays him had died just after over a month since this film's theatrical release.

* CriticalDissonance: Initially, it appeared this would be the case, as the film received a Website/RottenTomatoes score in the 90s off of its SXSW debut and was still highly rated heading into opening weekend. The film wasn't a hit with audiences with a RT score of 46% and a C+ Cinemascore. As it turned out, however, mainstream critics proved to be as sour on the film as general audiences, and the RT critic score plunged to a much weaker 59%.
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler: Even if Gage is killed and brought back by the Semetary...what ''[[AndThenWhat is the family's motives afterwards?]]'' Are they just live as an undead family? Will they lure other people to be killed and brought back? Considering the cold opening showing the door to the Creed house is closed as Jud's house burns down, it might as well imply the family will live in their home as an undead family.]]

** The original book and film involved Louis having to deal with an undead Gage. This time, aside from Ellie being the UndeadChild instead, [[spoiler: Louis and Gage have switched places by the end of the movie]].

** Probably worth noting do get this kind of plot in the sequel to the orignal film, were the de-facto antagonist is an adult who was brought back and had more knowledge of how the Sematary works and his undead nature. And even then he's mostly reduce to a psychotic murderer when all is said and done.

* TheWoobie: Gage. [[spoiler: He loses his older sister Ellie, and as a result ends up having nightmares of losing his family. And later he has to witness his older sister [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] and terrorize his family. He ends up losing both his mom and dad at the end of the film and is doomed to live with his undead family for the rest of his life with implications he is likely next to be killed then [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] too.]]

** Probably worth noting do get this kind of plot in the sequel to the orignal film, were the de-facto antagonist is an adult who was brought back and had more knowledge of how th Sematary works and his undead nature. And even then he's mostly reduce to a psychotic murderer when all is said and done.

* CriticalDissonance: Critics seem to be kinder to the film, which received a RT score of 59%. However, it wasn't a hit with audiences with a RT score of 46% and a C+ Cinemascore.

* CriticalDissonance: Inverted, critics seem to be kinder to the film which received and RT score of 61%. However, it wasn't a hit with audiences with a RT score of 46% and a C+ Cinemascore.
* HilariousInHindsight

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes the movie has 61% approval from critics and 46% from audiences.

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes the movie has 61% from critics and 46% from audiences.

* CriticalDissonance: While critics largely favor the movie, the audience at large does not. Most of the problems stem from that the movie does not have any suspense, creepiness, nor dread throughout, the lack of endings to numerous plot points, pacing issues, left out important details from the book, and generally unlikable and/or lack-of-depth characters.

* CriticalDissonance: While critics love the movie, the audience at large does not. Most of the problems stem from that the movie does not have any suspense, creepiness, nor dread throughout, the lack of endings to numerous plot points, pacing issues, left out important details from the book, and generally unlikable and/or lack-of-depth characters.

* HillariousInHindsight
** The original book and film involved Louis having to deal with an undead Gage. This time, aside from it being Ellie, [[spoiler: Louis and Gage have switched places by the end of the movie]].

* TheWoobie: Gage. [[spoiler: He loses his older sister Ellie, and as a result ends up having nightmares of losing his family. And later he has to witness his older sister [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]] and terrorize his family. He ends up losing both his mom and dad at the end of the film and is doomed to live with his undead family for the rest of his life.]]