Monkey Shines: Romero’s Campy Horror Miss
After making another attempt to distance himself from his zombie film legacy, George Romero devoted years to launching various projects, with the most notable being an adaption of Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary,” which unfortunately never materialized. However, he eventually managed to get his next film underway with an adaptation of the novel by Michael Stewart, which shares a King-like atmosphere and transforms ordinary, seemingly harmless things into sinister elements. Yet, something seems amiss in its execution that shifts it from being deliberately scary to potentially cheesy. Frankly, I’m surprised it isn’t celebrated as a camp classic now.