Pet Sematary

Media:	DVD
Directed by:	Mary Lambert
Starring:	Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby
Release date:	08 August, 2005
Our price:	$9.99

Pet Sematary

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Scary as hell

Wow! Definately King's best film to date! Seriously, this movie has everything. So, if you want to be scared senseless, Pet Sematary is well worth the money.

The movie starts out creepy enough with opening credits in the "pet sematary" with an eerie soundtrack. Then, we meet the Creeds, surgeon father and husband Lewis, mother and wife Rachel, kindergarden daughter Ellie, and adorable little infant son, Gage.

Actually, if you were watching it on TV and didn't know what the title was or what it was about, for the first 15 or 20 minutes, you wouldn't even know it was a horror movie. But then, things start getting strange when their neighbor starts talking about the mysterious path behind the house, which leads to the "pet sematary."

Then, while Rachel and the kids are at Rachel's parents house for Thanksgiving, Lewis' neighbor calls and tells him that he thinks Ellie's cat got killed and is dead on his lawn. Instead of buring it in the "pet sematary" they bury it in "the place where the dead rise," and old Native American burial ground.

Sure enough the cat comes back the next day, bring an unearthy stench back with it. That's how Lewis finally manages to convince himself that it really did work.

Then, something extremely heartbreaking happens to the Creed boy, Gage. This is where the ol' zombie-raising ground comes in. But, when the little boy comes back, he ain't exactly the innocent little tike he was in the real life...

This movie is SO SCARY! YOU NEED TO SEE IT! also the sequel is really good.

PET SEMATARY IS RATED R FOR VIOLENCE, GORE, STRONG LANGUAGE, BRIEF NUDITY AND DISTURBING IMAGES.

Pet Sematary -

"Do you know what a graveyard really is?"

I saw this movie way before I read the book, and it IS the reason I put off reading the book for so long. But after reading the book I can truly appreciate the script and some of the theatrical elements. The novel Pet Sematary was one of the darkest, most disturbing works by Stephen King (or for that matter any author) that I have ever read. King's adaptation of his own novel is pretty true to his book, but what made me wary about reading the novel after viewing the movie was the terrible miscasting for the film. The only person who played his part well was Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. Everybody else seemed so terribly forced that almost every emotion was unbelievable. There was practically no chemistry between Dale Midkiff and Denise Crosby (Louis and Rachel Creed) and the girl who played Ellie (or Ellen in the film) was just plain annoying. I do have to give credit to the little boy who played Gage, although he did kinda give me the creeps (while in the book he was just a sympathetic character). The woman who played Rachel Creed's sister, Zelda DID scare the pee outta me, although I guess it was being presented with the worst case scenario of a person with spinal menningitis that did it. Great makeup for her character! But sadly this movie came off as laughable the first time around, BUT ONLY BECAUSE I HADN"T READ THE BOOK FIRST!!! Gradually, as I made this a traditional Halloween viewing, I allowed myself to fall into the atmospherics of the film and subsequently gave myself the heebie-jeebies everytime I watched it. But I must warn potential viewers: READ THE BOOK FIRST!!! It's way better, incredibly disturbing, and it will keep you up at night! Then rent the movie to see its silver screen translation (as well as Stephen King as a minister!). Sometimes books should stay books, but the movie will grow on you if you're a Stephen King fan.

- Pet Sematary

Scary and Disturbing.

The Stephen king book "Pet Sematary" was one of the most horrific, disturbing books that I have ever read and the movie based on the novel is probably one of the most tragic and depressing horror movies ever made. The movie starts out with a young family moving into a new home in rural Maine. An elderly neighbor introduces the family to a nearby "Pet Sematary" where neighborhood children bury their dead pets. Things rapidly go downhill from there. First the family cat is run over and killed by one of the trucks which seem to constantly drive by their home. The neighbor shows the father, Dr. Creed, the "real" pet semetary, an ancient indian burial ground located far back in the woods behind the other pet sematary that has the power to resurect the dead. They bury the cat in the micmac indian burial ground and the next day the cat returns home with a very bad attitude. Later in the story Dr. Creed's young son is killed by a truck. Well, you can probably figure out what happens later in the story. This atmosphere and tone of this movie very dark and creepy. The acting wasn't so great but the premise is chilling. If you knew that you could raise the dead would you do it? And to those who criticize the fact that the father stupidly keeps returning to the burial ground, all I have to say is READ THE BOOK because it explains that the reason that the father continues to bury people there is because he can't help himself. The micmac burial ground is like a magnet to it's chosen victim's (Dr. Creed's) brain, a magnet that becomes more powerful as is causes more tradgedies to occur. Towards the end of the film, the micmac burial ground makes the grief stricken Dr. Creed dig up his son's newly buried corpse so he can bury him again out in the woods, even though he knows deep down that more likely than not the consequences would be horrific. The ressurected boy comes home that night, murders and mutilates his own mother (yikes). This new tradgedy, caused by Dr. Creed himself, makes him go insane and he attempts to ressurect his wife, only to have his wife come back to murder him. Granted, not the most cheerful ending for a movie. All in all, I thought that Pet Sematary was a really scary movie, but it was also rather sad.

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