Pet Sematary (DVD)

This is a bleak, nihilistic adaption of one of Stephen King's best and most enduring novels. Directed by Mary Lambert, this film truly stands out amongst the chaff of 80s horror flicks as a genuinely creepy, atmospheric riff on the reanmination of loved ones. The story starts as doctor Luis Creed moves with his wife and two young children into a large new country house, located next to a road which is plagued by the passage of huge trucks. A kindly old man across the road welcomes them, and tells them the legend of the 'Pet Sematary' deep within the woods behind their house. Whilst the family are away, the pet cat is run over, and to spare his young ...  Read the complete review

Pet Sematary is a film based on the novel by Stephen King. He also wrote the screenplay and cameos as a minister. The film centres around the Creeds, who have just moved to a new house in the countryside, a house that hasn't had anyone living in it for a long time. Their neighbor, Jud, tells them to be careful on the road as they are constantly being used by semis. He also shows them the Pet Sematary, where all the kids bury their pets after they got run over. When the Creeds' cat suffers the same fate, Jud shows them a deserted hill with some bizarre markings on it past the Pet Sematary and tells the husband, Louis, to bury the cat there. Soon ...  Read the complete review

I've just watched this film for the 2nd time in my life. The first time I think I was 9, and it really got to me. I'm 18 now and still think it's great! It's another film based on a book by the excellent Stephen King. The story foloows like this: A family move into their new house which is out in the country and befriend the old man who lives over the road! He tells them about the pet sematary, a place where pets are buried(if that wasn't obvious!). When the familes cat gets ran over by a truck(as there house is on a highway used by a lot of trucks), the old man tells the new neighbour to take it to a specail cematary, an ...  Read the complete review

Another conversion from a book by the brilliant stephen king, here we have a seemingly innocent tale of family life in suburbia, a new family moves out into the american countryside to start a new life. They befriend the old couple over the road, and spend many evenings listening to the old mans tales. One of them concerns a pet semetary, which is on an old indian burial ground, rumour has it that if you bury your dead there they come back to life. Firstly the families cat gets run over, the father buries it in the pet semetary, later that night its back eyes glowing and full of evil. Then the son gage a toddler is hit by a truck, and he two is buried ...  Read the complete review

Moving to a new place for most people is a new beginning but for the Creed family it could well be the end. Everything is perfect apart from two things, the semi-trailers that fly down the main road past their house and the mysterious winding path that leads to the pet cemetery, a place built on children’s broken dreams. All of the locals are reluctant to talk about the cemetery and its history. For if you bury your pet in the Indian burial ground behind the cemetery they don’t always stay there. One of my favourite Stephen King adaptations (for me only beaten by its sequel), it has everything that I like about horror films with a good storyline to boot. Both ...  Read the complete review