1989 Directed by Mary Lambert
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
Gordon Davidson Steve Maslow David Lee Fein Gregg Landaker Ken Dufva Hamilton Sterling Michael Herbick Larry Mann Greg Curda Mark Ulano Bruce Richardson Beth Bergeron David L. Horton Jr. Jane Lang
Stephen King's Pet Sematary, Stephen King's - Friedhof der Kuscheltiere, Cementerio de Animales, Cementerio de Mascotas, 夜半仔敲门, 宠物公墓, Simetierre, Cimetière Vivant, ペット・セメタリー
Didn't technically watch it but I did sit in my hotel room and perfectly remember it frame by frame over a sixteen hour period where I was in immense physical agony. At any moment I could've walked away from what I was doing but I didn't do that. I instead explored the boundless potential of the human mind and body acting in communion to complete a task for which neither were designed. Not only did "this task" hurt me the way that waking up during surgery hurts you but it triggered a sort of "anti REM" in me that made me feel like I had been awake for 75 hours doing manual labor with no break. My life can be cleanly divided into two acts now: what came before and what came after. I am infinitely worse off now that I've done this.
Fred Gwynne was delightful as always.
You better believe that even knowing how it works, I’d still take every cat right on up to that old cemetery when the time came, ohkaaaaay?
I hadn’t seen this in years and it really isn’t anything great until it takes that sharp left dark turn and then it gets rull good. If you’re in your 30’s then you know this movie was a huge deal back in the day and you know that Zelda was the ultimate nightmare fuel. I was terrified to watch her and refused to watch this for years because of her.
Fred Gwynne is great. Dale Midkiff can’t act but gee he’s pretty. It’s not like the people matter that much anyway because Church is the real star of this horror show. 😼
There’s the potential for a really great remake so fingers crossed! CHURCH 2.0
King's simple narrative trajectory and what ought to be a really unpleasant look at dread and grief is sort of undercut by what I felt like was a thin layer of camp (like the creepy but silly sister flashbacks for example..."I'm gonna get you!" or the stupid Ramones song) and a little bit of hesitation (or simple studio-mandated inability) on Lambert's part to dirty this up. That said it's so completely loaded with moments simultaneously indelible, gross, and a bit silly (achilles heel, giggling killer baby, bloody shoe on the highway, etc.) that it's easy to see how it traumatized my entire peer group at the time.
There was a time during the 90's where I would have ranked this 5/5 and it was definitely in my top ten favorite horror movies. I fucking loved Pet Semetary, it scared the shit out of me and I loved every moment of that feeling.
After overdosing on this movie for ten years I took a break, probably about a decade before finally revisiting this a few years ago. Even though it's still filled with effective moments, it unfortunately hasn't aged well for me.
Don't get me wrong I still enjoy Pet Semetary and it still has a lot to offer, I love the story and Fred Gwyne single handedly makes up for any faults I might bestow on this. Anytime…
Pet Sematary is one of the most disturbing horror films ever made, and certainly the most tragic. Dealing with the loss of a child, and the gradual descent to madness as a result of that loss, it's depressing and wonderfully creepy. Sure, it's pretty dated and cheesy at points, but what every horror fan remembers is the imagery.
The Awesome: The imagery, the imagery, the imagery. Macabre, horrifying, creepy, startling, and just plain scary; Pet Sematary has moments that will sear into your mind. If you haven't seen the film, you won't believe some of the compositions in this one. Claustrophobic, tight and extremely intense, Pet Sematary has one of the greatest climaxes in horror history. It's that great, sending…
patently flawed and occasionally silly but rides a very specific line of writerly idiosyncrasy, economical filmmaking and gruesome despair that i was very into.
It's easy to forgive the rest of the cast for poor acting when the cat is going so method.
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I must have seen Mary Lambert's film adaptation of the Stephen King's novel a half a dozen times in the past and I must admit I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there were still a couple of scenes that still send shivers down my spine today! One in particular I found myself shouting at the big screen! Thankfully there was nothing within my grasp for I know I would have chucked something at it as well ;-)
Anywho my expenditure of great emotion was all for naught.. for no matter how much I willed it to change the devastating scene unfolded…
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This was surprisingly good.
I expected a bad cliche horror movie but I actually think it had some good scares and a good story. I have never read the original Stephen King story, so I went in very blind and the movie actually isn’t that much about dead pets, but is still both creepy and sad.
The movie was well made and the dead animals looked pretty good and real, while also not being too gory (a bit of blood on the neck at most, so don’t worry animal lovers), there was still a good amount of gore on the humans though.
The acting was pretty average but I found all the characters likable and…
