The Shining’s Canceled Spinoff Is More Relieving After Critically-Panned New Stephen King Movie

For a litany of reasons, derivatives of Stephen King’s work have rarely translated well to the big screen, and the reception to Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is proof that the once-planned spinoff of The Shining should remain canceled. While there are of course great movies based on his novels – The Shining itself being one of the primary examples – almost all the attempts to derive spinoffs from Stephen King’s original work have been critical failures. Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is the latest example of a movie re-examining the source material from a different angle, in this case explaining the origins behind Pet Sematary‘s Jud Crandall and the history of the burial ground at the center of the story.