
Movies that feel likePet Sematary (1989)
If you loved Pet Sematary, the closest films we have are Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Haunting (1963) and The Borderlands (2014). All three share Pet Sematary's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Eyes of My Mother (2016).
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If Pet Sematary hit the spot, these will too

The same two preoccupations: halloween, and zombie
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Common ground: halloween
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

The same mix in both: dread, then unease


Horror built on melancholy, twice over
The difference: Sits closer to drama than Pet Sematary does

Dread-soaked horror in both cases
The difference: Trades the melancholy of Pet Sematary for an angle of its own

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Both sit in the same melancholy register

Both work the same dread
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Pet Sematary does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: woods

Both run unsettling where it counts

The same preoccupation in both: parents and children
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