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 ...

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 ...

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 ...