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Movie review: 'Pet Sematary' digs up a Stephen King classic with mixed, mechanical results

LOS ANGELES - "Sometimes dead is better."

The most memorable line in Stephen King's 1983 novel "Pet Sematary" is a warning offered far too late. Tragedy has already befallen Louis Creed and his family, who live near an especially permeable boundary between the living and the dead - not just the dangerous road running alongside their house, where enormous trucks race past at terrifying speeds but also the ancient Mi'kmaq burial ground in their backyard. If things look grim now, a neighbor reminds Louis, they can always get worse, and it might be best

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