This also kind of sounds like Bob Clark's early film DEATHDREAM, about a Vietnam Vet who's killed overseas, but his mother (unintentionally) wishes him back to life, and he returns as an odd, shambling ghoul who everybody just assumes "is a bit different because of the War".
It's an interesting, if cheap and flawed, mix of "The Monkey's Paw" with Vietnam Vets suffering from PTSD.
Somehow, every Pet Sematary adaptation has managed to lose or ignore the actual terror and grief of the novel. Maybe, just maybe, all of these attempts at turning the story into a pulpy B-movie are misguided. I would've loved to see what Guillermo Del Toro, or even Mike Flanagan, could have done with a more sober interpretation of the material.
This also kind of sounds like Bob Clark's early film DEATHDREAM, about a Vietnam Vet who's killed overseas, but his mother (unintentionally) wishes him back to life, and he returns as an odd, shambling ghoul who everybody just assumes "is a bit different because of the War".
It's an interesting, if cheap and flawed, mix of "The Monkey's Paw" with Vietnam Vets suffering from PTSD.
Somehow, every Pet Sematary adaptation has managed to lose or ignore the actual terror and grief of the novel. Maybe, just maybe, all of these attempts at turning the story into a pulpy B-movie are misguided. I would've loved to see what Guillermo Del Toro, or even Mike Flanagan, could have done with a more sober interpretation of the material.
The only way I was able to enjoy any part of this movie was by pretending it was an anti-vietnam, pro vietcong movie.
The undead guy puts his greens on and is stopped by farmers using underground tunnels