When it comes to October horror, this season is off to a bit of a rough start. For every gleefully mean-spirited horror ride to hell like When Evil Lurks, there is a soulless sequel lacking in scares like The Exorcist: Believer. Yet there is nothing quite as perplexing as Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. A prequel to 2019’s Pet Sematary, it is a film where the stiffest thing is not the reanimated corpses but the dialogue the cast is saddled with, alongside a premise doomed from the jump as it tries to fill in mythology that didn’t need to be expanded and forgets about actually being a work of horror that stands on its own. The only scary thing about the experience is how painfully sluggish it is. There are plenty of characters and some bursts of gore, though it all amounts to what may very well be the worst Stephen King adaptation to date.