Monkey Shines

Trying once again to leave the zombie picture behind, George Romero spent years trying to get different projects off the ground, most notably an adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Semetary that never came to fruition. He did eventually get his next film moving with this adaptation of the novel of the same name by Michael Stewart. It has a certain King-esque feel to it, taking something normal and what should be benign and giving it evil import, but there’s something deeply off about the execut...