Pet Sematary (1989)

Release date: 1989-04-21
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Mary Lambert
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Laurel Productions
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 6.6/10
Length: 1h 43min

Storyline

Eager to start afresh, the young doctor, Louis Creed, and his family--his wife, Rachel, their daughter, Ellie, and their three-year-old toddler, Gage--move to their new home in the small rural town of Ludlow, Maine, alarmingly close to a busy highway. However, after the inadvertent death of Rachel's cherished tomcat in an awful accident, reluctantly, a desperate Louis will take his friendly neighbour's advice to bury it in an ancient Micmac graveyard: a mystical burial ground imbued with alleged reanimating powers. Now, despite the terrible results and the insistent warnings from a recently deceased, tragedy-stricken Louis has no other choice but to go back to the Indian cemetery, in high hopes that, this time, things will be different. Nevertheless, can the dead truly return from the grave?

Plot Keywords

intentionally misspelled title, neighbor, based on the works of stephen king, death of wife, death of boy, back from the dead, resurrection, burial ground, death of son, based on novel, pantyhose, female stockinged feet, loss of child, father in law son in law relationship, scalpel, ghost, cat, house fire, little girl, woods

Short Review

Reduced to its plot outlines, King`s work no longer functions; its meaning lies in the obscure tensions and anxieties that shape the fantasy, not in what happens, but why.