Jud’s Apprehension
One change that does affect the quality of the storytelling in the 2019 movie is the speed with which Jud lays out all the details about the titular pet cemetery. In the novel, there’s a lot of buildup with Jud not really wanting to give too much away about the cursed burial ground too soon. In both the 1989 film and the 2019 remake, Jud is all too eager to get the plot moving forward, a symptom of condensing such a long story into a single two-hour film.