Show Killer animals s attack Jim Jun Healis HeaDs Staff Writer PARAMOUNT pictures debuts its continuation of the Stephen King nov novel l Pet Edward Furlong and Anthony Edwards star stat as Jeff and Chase Matthews DV DVM M. M in this horror movie about an infamous cemetery and a deadly deadly deadly dead dead- ly dog When Drew Gilberts Gilbert's Jason McGuire stepfather Gus Clancy Brown also the town sheriff recklessly kills ills his Drews Drew's dog Drew and Jeff conduct conduct conduct con con- duct a burial service at the theY Y cemetery This is a story that warns Be careful what you wish for comments director Mary Lam Lam- bert The boys get what they want but in the process they unleash h forces beyond their control contro After his reanimation Gus becomes totally driven by his impulses and appetites regardless regardless regardless regard regard- less of how cruel or destructive I they are said Brown He has no sense of right or wrong to toj j check his actions His attitude is If youre you're already dead you j I may as a's well have some fun I Screenwriter Richard Outten commented The burial Ud m 4 y vv tx c. c I 4 IIi f 1 t to 1 t l' l A 1 I IA v r l rr 4 Matthews and Gilbert bury Drews Drew's dog at the mysterious graveyard ground is akin to o the Song of the Sirens' Sirens in that it holds an irresistible lure that overcomes any fear of reprisal The boys know that its it's wrong to tap into such frightening supernatural Supernatural Super super- nat natural ral powers but the temptation temptation temptation tion to bring something back to life overwhelms them Concluded Lambert Ultimately Ultimately Ultimately Ul the characters in this film believe in the impossible because they want to believe in it The mythology of the burial ground becomes an instrument of a nightmarish self fulfilling prophecy Pet Two appears to tobe tobe tobe be a good sequel to a great novel But when making a movie from a novel you lose some of the effect Then to tomake tomake tomake make a sequel from the novels novel's movie may be pushing it way too far |