Pet Sematary
The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two…
- Director: Mary Lambert
- Genre:Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
- Runtime:103 minutes
Cast
Dale Midkiff : Louis Creed
Fred Gwynne : Jud Crandall
Denise Crosby : Rachel Creed
Brad Greenquist : Victor Pascow
Michael Lombard : Irwin Goldman
The plot revolves around the corporeal reanimation of deceased pets and humans in an abandoned Micmac burial ground outside the town of Ludlow, Maine. The Creed family moves into a new home and befriends their new neighbor, Jud Crandall, who tells them about a pet cemetery and the burial grounds nearby. Louis Creed, taking a job at the University of Maine at Orono hospital, is treating a car accident victim named Victor Pascow, who dies on the operating table. Later that night, in what’s seemingly a dream, Pascow visits Louis in his sleep, warning him about the burial ground. Shaken, he wakes up to find his feet covered in dirt, hinting that perhaps it wasn’t a dream, after all. Not long after, Church, the cat owned by Louis’s daughter Ellie, is run over by a truck on the highway road in front of their house while the rest of the family is in Chicago for Thanksgiving. In doing what he believes is a favor to Louis and Ellie, Jud takes Louis to a burial ground beyond the pet sematary he and his family had visited earlier in the film. These burial grounds are much deeper in the woods, therefore being unknown to most people in the surrounding area. He buries the cat there, underneath a cairn. Church is surprisingly brought back to life, but he acts differently; he attacks Louis, hisses at him, and seems to still reek of decomposition, despite his injuries having healed and his biological functions fully restored. Louis begins regretting ever burying the cat there in the first place.
Tragically, Louis’s young son Gage is run over by a passing semi truck on the very same road Church was, during a family picnic. The entire family stricken with grief, Louis considers burying Gage in the burial grounds, as well. Jud tries to dissuade him from doing so, by telling him about a young soldier from town, Timmy Baterman, who had returned dead from World War II. His father, Bill, upset over his son’s death, had placed his son’s corpse into the Micmac burial ground, only to have it reanimate and terrify the townsfolk. Jud and three of his friends tried to save the father and burn down the house with the son in it, but unfortunately Bill was attacked by “Timmy”, both perishing in the fire. Jud ends his story by saying, “Don’t think about doing it, Louis. This place… is evil. Sometimes… dead is better,” and confesses that the place made Gage die, because he introduced Louis to it. Ellie and Rachel travel back to Chicago, but Ellie is reluctant, as she had a bad dream about her father, Gage, and Pascow. She pleads her father to go with her. Nevertheless, they leave, Louis once again being alone. He heads to the cemetery Gage is buried in, intending on exhuming his son’s corpse, despite the story Jud had told him. He is met at the graveyard by Pascow, who tells him the barrier was not meant to be crossed, and that the ground is sour.
That night in Chicago, Ellie has a nightmare, stating that Pascow warned her that Louis is going to do something really bad, and that he’s trying to help him because Louis tried to save his life. Rachel, with a little help from Pascow, whose spirit is still inside the house, realizes who her daughter was talking about, and phones her husband. Not getting an answer, she then calls Jud. She asks if he’s seen Louis, and then tells him she’s coming home. He tries to warn her not to, but she has already hung up. Read more
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