Do you Scare Easily? (Pet Sematary - Stephen King)

Member Name: barbara107

Product:	Pet Sematary - Stephen King
Date:	13/05/01 (254 review reads)
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If you are a regular reader of my opinions, by now you will know that my specialist subject (as they say on Mastermind) are books by Stephen King.

I say books, rather than films, as some of the adaptations of his work lose so much in transfer onto the big screen. Pet Sematary is one such film. Luckily I had read the book first, then the film came out many years later and whilst the story followed exactly the same plot I was really disappointed, it did not conjure up the same feelings of sheer horror as the book did, or maybe my imagination is better than the film makers. I also think it was a big mistake to use the actor that played Herman Munster in such a film as I kept waiting for him to make me laugh..and believe you me, neither the film or the book is any laughing matter!

Louise Creed is a doctor , and after getting a job at the university near Ludlow, Maine, he along with his wife and two children move house to be nearer his work

The location of the house holds the key to the whole book, at the front of the house is a road which heavy oil tankers frequently travel down at some speed, and at the back of the house is a woody trail that leads to an ancient Indian burial ground , where over the years people have turned it into a Pet Sematary, for their beloved animals, especially road kill.

Not long after moving into the house they discover the Pet Sematary as it seems to lure them there with voices and illusions so, when their beloved cat dies they bury it in the Sematary.

Amazingly enough, the cat turns up alive a few days later-it seems to have been resurrected from the dead, by the ground itself. However, all is not well with the cat as it’s vicious behaviour now shows.

Amazed and bewildered by this resurrection, the Sematary brings new meaning to the small town of Ludlow and the Creed Family, and when Louis’s little boy, Gage, becomes a victim of the road outside his house, consummed with grie
f he turns to the Pet Sematary and buries him there, that is only after having him already buried, and digging him up from a Christian burial ground.

Does Gage come back to life? You BET he does! Does his attitude change like the cat's? What happens to the Creed's? Read this book by Stephen King and you will be on the edge of you seat with chills.

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