Pet Graveyard (2019)

 Nursing student Lilly is not doing well in school due to the death of her mother. Her brother Jeff dropped out to pursue other projects and Lillys advisor says she may want to follow his footsteps and take a semester off.

Jeff decides that he wants to try brinking, which is a ritual he saw online where you cross over into death so you can speak to your loved ones. He’s already found two others who want to join him.  There’s Francis, who lost his girlfriend in a car crash, and Zara who wants to talk to her brother.

Since Lilly is a nurse, Jeff asks her to be there in case something goes wrong. They also need someone to revive them after they die.  She’s not interested, but he guilt trips her into it.

They film the ritual so they can post it on online.  Each one states they are taking full responsibility for their actions. Then Jeff wraps plastic around each persons head and smothers them, before asking Lilly to do the same to him. I can’t help but think that Lilly will be expelled from her nursing program when they  find out.

Each person successfully meets their loved ones, and is revived.  But the problem is now they’re seeing their loved ones in the real world. The dead say they must come back with them because no one cheats death. Plus there is a strange cat in their house. 

This is less Pet Semetary and more Flat Liners.  The only time we see a cemetery is when they walk through one. We only see the cat a few times and no person or pet gets buried.

So many questions.  Why was Lilly willing to murder Jeff for his experiment? She got guilted into helping make sure they were revived, but he never told her she’d have to kill him.  Why does Death need a pipe wrench to kill? Shouldn’t he be able to kill with a flick of the finger? Why does Lilly decide to brink to save Jeff? Wouldn’t it make more sense for Jeff to do it since he’s already been there and they know death doesn’t want to be cheated? Why don’t they realize that if they both brink, there is no one there to wake them up or revive them if something goes wrong?  Why does each person that brinks do a big speech? Shouldn’t all of them have given their speeches in advance before the first person died? The time frame and timers are totally off because it’s going to take more than three minutes to give the speech and die. Also why do none of them realize that saying I’m taking full responsibility for my death doesn’t keep the person who suffocates you from being arrested for murder?  They still killed you.

Ridiculous dialogue:

Technically we’re not actually killing ourselves since we come back

We’re not getting into this full steam ahead without research.

There must be a better way to do this experiment than having 
someone else hold plastic over your face

The map using push pins and string to link 
photos to locations, ooooo fancy

These people gave monologues and it took time to suffocate,
yet the timers are all essentially the same.