Pet Sematary - in which a man neglects his family to tragic ends, and tries to make up for it with more bad decision making. Remember that episode of The Office where Michael needs to do Safety Training better than the werehouse guys, and so he gets a trampoline and tests some watermelons on it, and it goes poorly, and then Dwight asks him is he wants to do some more tests, and Michael says no, let's just do it, the tests aren't going very well? Its kinda like that. A man moves into a new home with his family, and they are unfazed by the serious traffic problem on their road. Luckily, their neighbor across is Herman Munster! So, what happens is, first a cat dies, and the daughter can't deal, so the dad buries the cat in the resurrection cemetery, and the cat comes back to life, but its not really that nice anymore. There's a whole bunch of stuff happening in the movie that isn't really related to the plot, like the mom, Tasha Yar, had this awful sister she was responsible for, but she died on her watch, so, there's some guilt for ya. And the dad is a doctor at the local college, and when he can't save a collision victim, he starts hallucinating, or being haunted by him. So, naturally, when the son dies from traffic, the father also buries him in the resurrection cemetery, but he also comes back wrong, and then the murder begins. "Sometimes death is better," says Herman Munster. He's right.
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