I love some of the changes that were made for this adaptation, like the concluding scene (which is genuinely disturbing thanks to a well-used performance by one or both of the Lavoie twins). The new Pet Sematary is a tighter, leaner version of King’s source novel. These are many other little narrative touch-ups that either streamline or subvert familiar plot points…but they also send a clear message to people who remember King’s story: you don’t know Pet Sematary like you think you do.īut really, we kinda do. Or the way that Jud passes out because Louis drugs him, and not because of the mystical influence of the wendigo (or whatever other spirits preside over the nearby Micmac burial ground). Stuff like: when Church the cat bounds into Jud’s lap, which means that when Jud inevitably shows Church’s corpse to Louis, he can’t say “I think it’s yours” (since he’s now officially met Church).
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If you know this story - and I think many viewers do -then you will either be distracted or delighted (or both!) by the little ways that screenwriter Jeff Buhler and directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer announce that their movie isn’t your daddy’s Pet Sematary. “It’s longer than it looks,” suggests this new movie’s creators. “Stick to the path,” Jud warns in King’s original novel.
I generally don’t like to rag on horror movies for being blunt, but this tracking shot’s message is clear (and will be made even clearer in succeeding scenes): we are going down a different path. We are led down a long, winding path by a camera mounted on an overhead drone: from the edge of the forest, past the cemetery, and dead-ending at the new home of Louis and his family. I wonder if the first part of that sentence is the main problem with the new Pet Sematary. Like a lot of horror fans, I’ve read Stephen King’s novel and seen Mary Lambert’s 1989 movie adaptation. Simon Abrams (AKA: Team Evil Cat): I didn’t think it was possible, but I am both impressed and underwhelmed by the new Pet Sematary adaptation. Matters are further complicated by Louis’s discovery - thanks in no small part to the well-intended interference of nosy neighbor Jud Crandal (John Lithgow) - of the nearby pet cemetery and the adjacent Indian burial ground.
All three versions of this story follow troubled medical doctor Louis Creed ( Jason Clarke, in the new version) as he and his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) struggle to prevent their children, Ellie (Jete Laurence) and Gage (identical twins Hugo and Lucas Lavoie), from worrying about death…even after the violent (but accidental) killing of Church, Ellie’s pet cat.
Pet Sematary was first adapted into a movie in 1989 by King himself and director Mary Lambert. The following is a spoiler-filled conversation about the new movie adaptation of Pet Sematary - Stephen King’s disturbing 1983 novel about God, dead cats, and Indian burial grounds - between The Hollywood Reporter contributors Simon Abrams and Steven Boone.
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