A crisp and efficient reminder of King’s line “Sometimes, dead is better,” and that occasionally, sometimes prequels are too.

| Oct 6, 2023

Not even the jump scares work, in other words, leaving little but sudden jolts of ghoulish carnage to keep the audience awake.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 6, 2023

A prequel wanted by few and needed by none.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2023

Bloodlines’ most criminal offense is squandering the talents of David Duchovny.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 4, 2023

Cool as the concept of a magic graveyard that brings beloved pets and, later, not so lovely people back from the dead may be, this remains second-rate King movie material.

| Oct 3, 2023

It’s a prequel that doesn’t care for tidy canon; the aim is to use these familiar characters and the setting to induce scares. It's not helped by editing that feels like much of this choppy story was left on the editing room floor.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 28, 2023

“Who asked for this?” is the question such projects invoke, and Lindsey Anderson Beer’s film never comes up with a satisfying answer.

| Sep 24, 2023