No,no,no the director of the first Pet Sematary died,then they buried her in the Pet Sematary. After that she came back to life and made Pet Sematary 2. Thats why it's seems that the second was made by another person. Sometimes dead is bett'a!
Saša Huzjak Naravno da ih guštam slušat.Razlog je jednostavano jer nisu samo filmski kritičari ili kritičari video igara nego i ljubitelji. I ta ljubav se vidi,posebno u njihovoj Resident Evil kritici ... IGRE,ne filma,sigurno ne filma. Pozdrav iz Solina.
Fred Gwynne used to live next door to my grandparents. They said he had a wonderful sense of humor. My grandfather was a huge fan of “The Munsters” tv show specifically because of Gwynne’s “Herman Munster.”
I found this movie scary as a kid, but now as a parent I found it scarier and very very sad. I also read the book last year and it was really the saddest thing ever. It really hit me because I have a kid who's about the same age as Gage. Honestly, despite all of the warnings, if I was Dr. Creed, I would've tried to bring him back too.
Pet Semetary is definitely one of the most underrated/overlooked classic horror films ever. You almost never hear anyone mention it when they talk about successful Stephen King adaptions, when its arguably one of the best King adaptions to film. You guys should check out The Exorcist 3 as it's another underrated/overlooked classic horror film that is also a rare case of a sequel being on par with the original, while not aping the original and being it's own original story that also continues the story from the first film while ignoring the God awful second film. It's essentially the true sequel to The Exorcist and the only other entry in that series that's worth a look.
I agree 100% Exorcist 3 is highly underrated and IMO I enjoy it more than the original and Brad dourif should have gotten an oscar for his performance in Exorcist 3 wow what an amazing performance as the Gemini killer.
The suicide is explained. She finds out she has stomach cancer and she had cared for her mother who died of cancer in the past so knew what she was in for so killed herself to avoid it.
I read all the major King novels between the ages of 10-12, including this one in '84 right after it came out. It was my favorite at the time, very scary, but when the movie finally came out I thought it was terrible. I was a huge Fred Gwynne fan from Car 54 and the Munsters, but it didn't help. Seemed like a joke to me. Christine was the only one of the 80's books where the movie blew me away. It still holds up. I could watch it every day. John, the only "Capenter" I'll every worship.😆
Felt the most bad for the poor daughter who ends up the only living survivor of this horrific tale. Lewis should of at least cut his losses after Rachel was dead and went back to live far away w his little girl but he was so gone by that point he wasn't at all thinking clearly.
Kid's dad (Anthony Edwards) kills the zombie dog then goes in to confront zombie Clancy Brown. Anthony Edwards: "What are you doing?" Clancy Brown: "Well, I *was* building a doggy door."
I had to re-read Gage's death over again in the book. I couldn't believe it. Heartbreaking. I think they put the maids death in the movie so that death could be brought up by Ellie since Rachel was afraid of death. Ellie talks to Louis about not wanting anyone including Church to die. One of the motivations for Church to be buried in the cemetery.
In the book Louis buries his wife for a few different reasons. 1. He is completely under the control of the burial grounds at this point. 2. A part of him does believe that if he buries his wife sooner than the others, she may come back normal. 3. The main reason he does it is because he knows his wife will come back, and he's hoping she will kill him. By the end of the book Louis knows that his family and life are destroyed and that the only way out is to die. In fact when he sees his wife come back in the book, and he notices her pick up the knife, hes almost glad that it's happening. I love the book and the movie, but goddamn it's easily one the darkest books I've ever read.
Reading this book and The Shining literally gave me chills. I don't know how Stephen King does it, but he has an incredible talent that he's able to use effectively.
Stephen King is a big fan of the Ramones and referenced some of their songs in the novel "Pet Sematary." In homage, The Ramones wrote and performed the theme song "Pet Sematary," which is featured in the film's closing credits. The truck driver was also listening to "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" by The Ramones. The role of Zelda, Rachel's terminally ill sister, was played by a man. Director Mary Lambert wanted Zelda and her scenes to frighten the audience but did not believe that a 13-year old girl was scary so she cast Andrew Hubatsek in the role to make something be "off about Zelda." Tom Savini turned down the chance to direct the film. Gage's hand lurching from the grave is a homage to the end of Carrie (1976). When Church is found dead alongside the highway, a fake cat was used. When Victor Pascow is being carried into the clinic after being hit by a truck, a rabies poster with a picture of Cujo can be seen on the bulletin board by the stairs.
I always thought Jud took him to use cemetery on the cat to show Lewis the power of the cemetery. Also how when the dead comes back it isn’t the same. I believe he was warning him by showing him an example. Lewis wouldn’t have believed his words. Lewis saw what happened to the cat and still used it again.
Well, according to the book, jud is under the influence or basically being controlled by the wendigo and the burial ground itself. He took louis to the burial ground even though he didn't really want to. He regrets taking him there. But he did it bc he had to.
When I was a kid, I thought that this was the scariest movie that I had ever seen. It is still is one of the creepiest movies that I have seen to this day.
Nice work on the review, you guys nailed it. As much as I enjoy the movie, they just left out too much from the novel for it to really work like it needed to. I wouldn't say that those that lead people to the graveyard are weak-willed, just that it's a perfect storm of grief, desperation, and genuine overwhelming supernatural influence. With Church, Louis doesn't want Elly to have to hurt and as you mentioned his wife has this huge trauma regarding death because of her childhood, and Judd is driven by the Wendigo to take him. On top of that, Louis is still pretty sure the legends are bullshit until Church shows up the next day. With Gage, Louis is drowning in grief and pain, Rachel is emotionally checked out, and the Wendigo straight-up wills Judd into unconsciousness to prevent him from stopping the reburial. This is all in the book, but it's really difficult to convey in a visual medium where you can't literally read the characters' minds. On top of that, the key theme of the Wendigo is hunger. These people are pulled to it generation after generation because no matter how many lives it consumes, it will never be enough. The only people who can (relatively) safely live near it are people who have nothing to lose, because attachment is the hook it uses to continue the chain of burial, loss, and evil. EDIT: Clarified the comment a bit.
40:59: I was scarred by that same sequence too! The nightmares this scene gave me as a kid, far more chilling and blood curdling than any child with a scalpel.
Judd was the cause for most of the tragedies in the movie when he got lewis to bury his daughters cat in the sour burial ground.knowing what would happen..he was the only character that truly got what he deserved
Great film from a superb book. First read it when the paperback was released. I was working nightshift as a security guard in a hospital morgue. Definitely recommend the book, but not when you're sharing a room with Mr Rigor Mortis & co!
This is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. Not the scariest, not the grossest, not the goriest, but disturbing. (And I'm not saying that as an insult - I'm attributing it to the movie's effectiveness) This movie just unnerved me on a level that no other movie has done.
This movie has some flaws, but it’s still one of my favourite horror films. That truck scene and the scene at the funeral after that really went for it! Love it
Thanks for bringing back my childhood nightmares... On a side note, I once knew a smoking hot chick who had a son named Gage. He looked exactly like Gage in the movie. Kind of scared me away. I regret that. I wish I knew where she is now.
Out of all of Stephen's King's movie adaptations, Salem's Lot is the scariest. I also think that had a lot to do with Tobe Hooper. He changed Barlow from an ordinary looking man to a ghoul. I watched Salem's Lot as a child and now as a middle-aged man, and I am still freaked out by the vampires - the kid at the window, the boy in the coffin, the guy in the rocking chair. Barlow. The atmosphere is awesome. The acting brilliant. Pet Sematary, for me, is just plain dull. Isn't scary in the slightest and is 'loved by many people who saw it as young children. It's that thought of being scared as a kid, which keeps their love for this awful movie alive.
Is that even really a Tobe Hooper idea though? I feel like a lot of directors would have realised that script wasn't really scary and gone looking for ways to make the vampires more effective, and the Max Schreck look has historically been the most consistently successful method of accomplishing that task (at least in lieu of just writing a better story).
@@DistractedGlobeGuy The idea was that if they made Barlow speak, he would be mentally compared to every Dracula ever. Making him some kind of "thing" took that off the table. He changed all of the vampires from just "people with fangs" to something inhuman, a supernatural parasite masking itself as its prey.
I just watched it for the first time. It seemed to me that the housekeeper lady’s stomach hurt because she was having premonitions about the future events, like the daughter did. I think maybe she knew what would happen to the family?
I remember watching this movie very fondly as a 5/6-yr-old kid, it *scared the **_HOLY HELL_* out of me, thanks to its overwhelmingly dark & nightmarish atmosphere and tone. I did not know what I had gotten myself into, and it *_shook_* me down to my inner core. I didn't even want to look at the video tape it was recorded on. I believe it is one of Stephen King's most frightening movies.
You know, read the book and then saw the film in the theatre when it was first released. King did a brilliant job of adapting his book to film. Never saw it again or read the book again. I found it just too disturbing. The Director did a superb job of capturing the feel of the story., it's just that the story is just too horrible.
@@mikerodgers7620 Um as someone who lives in Minnesota, whos grandmother lived in Alabama.. YES TF THEY DO LMAO. What the actual f are you even talking about 🤣
I've seen the movie and read the book and even though I'm not a parent, the scenes after Gage's death and the moments following after it really messed with me and I actually had to a take a break midway through the book involving Louis's grief because I couldn't take it anymore. Though if I ever became a parent and learned of a burial place like that there'd be no way in hell I'd do something so stupid. I have pets and I couldn't even imagine bringing them back like they are in the book because whatever heart or sanity I had left would just be gone.
So, when can we expect a full review of Pet Semetary 2? Just joking! By the by, the face out of the rocks trying to stop Luis is indeed Victor. It was poorly done CG but it was him.
The land is soured by the wendigo, a native American legend that's defined by greed, and cannibalism. When he takes a bite out of Judd, he's exhibiting signs of the wendigo. This was a great review, lot of fun, I agree with most of the points you guys raised. Super thorough, well put. At the moment they're looking to remake this film, which I'm all for, because I don't feel like they managed to really get the pervasive sense of sorrow and complete dread that the book did. Though it's still a pretty solid flick. The only thing that bums me out is I think the casting for Judd was perfect. Good luck outdoing that performance!
I recently learned that Mary Lambert also directed Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge. I've loved and watched the movie for years and never knew that! As sequels go, it's got a more dark and serious tone compared to the original that I really love, and it really holds up well.
I was an avid reader of King as a teenager so went to see this in my final teenage year when it was new at the cinema- not a patch on the book and the start of my realisation that fabulous King books could be adapted into truly dreadful movies.
I think Mrs. Dandridge dying was left in to show the mom, Rachel's, neurotic fear of death. Which then led to her explaining her childhood experience with her sister Zelda, and how that death influenced her entire life thereafter.
One thing I would expand on is the fact that in the book Jud had a wife (Norma.) When Louis tried to help her Jud felt he owed Louis a favor and tried to repay him by "saving" Ellie's cat. The whole seems a lot more reasonable makes sense.
I've just discovered this video and really loved this review of pet sematary. This has always been a favorite of mine. I too started watching the movies on TV and my uncle told me to read this book. i's partly his fault why I've so into horror in the first place Anyway, one day years after watching the movie, I did read it and absolutely loved. it. I do think the book was awesome too. And yeah Zelda still scares me. I think this gets scarier as I get older because while I don't have children of my own, I do have nieces and I'm really close with them so the stuff with Gage is always hard. I think this is so scary because of the horror of losing a small child and it being so unbearable. Great review!
Damn good book, too. I used to dislike the original mini-series, but mainly because I was a little ghoul who wanted high body counts, and gore, over story/characters/etc. I tend to think King's best work are his short stories, but Salem's Lot is the exception.
I disagree. Aside from the vampire scenes, the tv movie of Salem's Lot is insanely boring and dated as all hell. I'm still waiting for a proper adaptation of the novel for the big screen.
watching this movie, i always thought that the suicide was a fake-out resurrection plot where they might hint at the doctor trying to bring her back after the funeral. Then again, i haven't seen this move in over 5 years, so my memory is a little wonky.
Mickko Hughes is excellently cute/creepy in this - and I just realised he was also Simon (in Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis) - he pulled off an excellent performance in that movie too
This is the one movie I remember my mum telling me I wasn't aloud to watch when I was younger.Which is weird considering I'd seen child's play and the evil dead well before that.
While the novel doesn't say what happened to Louis at the end, we can assume she killed him because we know that the dead don't come back the same. I suppose Louis could have maybe killed her again, but either way she didn't come back as his loving wife.
The face that popped out of The Rock was Rachel's dad I believe. Whether I'm right or wrong that scene was creepy as hell. Especially if I put myself in Lewis's shoes holding my dead son in my arms in the creepy Forest and I see a face come out of a rock like that. God!!!! I would have had a heart attack LOL.
My dad once told me he used to read every Stephen king book but he stopped at pet cemetery because it bugged the hell out of him his favorite Stephen king book is misery and yes I have watched pet cemetery the original movie in fact I happen to own it and it bugged me to in fact I’ve only watched it once that is enough for me
If y’all haven’t seen Deathdream by Bob “Black Christmas” Clark, you really ought to. It’s got a similar plot and is a wonderfully creepy little film from the early 70’s.
No,no,no the director of the first Pet Sematary died,then they buried her in the Pet Sematary.
After that she came back to life and made Pet Sematary 2.
Thats why it's seems that the second was made by another person.
Sometimes dead is bett'a!
HrvatskiHig lol! Good one. 😊
Ha. I think you're on to something!
HrvatskiHig....are you croatian? If you are.... onda mi je drago znat da nisam jedini u lijepoj našoj koji uživa u ovoj dvojici filmskih genijalaca ;)
Saša Huzjak Naravno da ih guštam slušat.Razlog je jednostavano jer nisu samo filmski kritičari ili kritičari video igara nego i ljubitelji.
I ta ljubav se vidi,posebno u njihovoj Resident Evil kritici ... IGRE,ne filma,sigurno ne filma.
Pozdrav iz Solina.
The ground was sour
Fred Gwynne used to live next door to my grandparents. They said he had a wonderful sense of humor. My grandfather was a huge fan of “The Munsters” tv show specifically because of Gwynne’s “Herman Munster.”
I found this movie scary as a kid, but now as a parent I found it scarier and very very sad. I also read the book last year and it was really the saddest thing ever. It really hit me because I have a kid who's about the same age as Gage. Honestly, despite all of the warnings, if I was Dr. Creed, I would've tried to bring him back too.
So many movies/shows you come back to as a adult (parent) and certain things hit you differently. This is one dark, sad story.
🎵”I don’t wanna be buried, in a Pet Semetary. I don’t want to live my life again!”🎵 - The Ramones
THE book ends with Rachel coming back to the house and saying darling
Ive met Denise Crosby & she's SO lovely 😃
She told me all about this film & stuff that happened behind the scenes.
Unabashed Geekette Thats awesome!
Pet Semetary is definitely one of the most underrated/overlooked classic horror films ever.
You almost never hear anyone mention it when they talk about successful Stephen King adaptions, when its arguably one of the best King adaptions to film.
You guys should check out The Exorcist 3 as it's another underrated/overlooked classic horror film that is also a rare case of a sequel being on par with the original, while not aping the original and being it's own original story that also continues the story from the first film while ignoring the God awful second film.
It's essentially the true sequel to The Exorcist and the only other entry in that series that's worth a look.
I agree 100% Exorcist 3 is highly underrated and IMO I enjoy it more than the original and Brad dourif should have gotten an oscar for his performance in Exorcist 3 wow what an amazing performance as the Gemini killer.
Yeah , no. It's a pile a shiz.
That's like saying Puppet Master 4 is a hidden gem
It's Pet Sematary
The suicide is explained. She finds out she has stomach cancer and she had cared for her mother who died of cancer in the past so knew what she was in for so killed herself to avoid it.
In the book she had no stomach problems
in the book it's jud s wife who died.
I read all the major King novels between the ages of 10-12, including this one in '84 right after it came out. It was my favorite at the time, very scary, but when the movie finally came out I thought it was terrible. I was a huge Fred Gwynne fan from Car 54 and the Munsters, but it didn't help. Seemed like a joke to me. Christine was the only one of the 80's books where the movie blew me away. It still holds up. I could watch it every day. John, the only "Capenter" I'll every worship.😆
Felt the most bad for the poor daughter who ends up the only living survivor of this horrific tale. Lewis should of at least cut his losses after Rachel was dead and went back to live far away w his little girl but he was so gone by that point he wasn't at all thinking clearly.
Only thing is… what were the cops gonna say 🤣🤣🤣
There were actually twin girls playing Ellie. It's not just one actress. The girls's names were Blaze and Beau.
Zelda scares the shit out of me , "Sometimes Dead Is Better."
Just wanna say that Clancy Brown is flat out amazing in the sequel!
“Fahget somethin Backard Pix Buddy?
Woops
I think that's why I love the sequel so much. Dude chews the scenery. Lol "No brain, no pain. Think about it!!" -Zombie Mr. Krabs
Whoops
Kid's dad (Anthony Edwards) kills the zombie dog then goes in to confront zombie Clancy Brown. Anthony Edwards: "What are you doing?" Clancy Brown: "Well, I *was* building a doggy door."
In the book, Jud took Lewis up to the burial ground in gratitude for helping Juds wife (not included in the film).
I had to re-read Gage's death over again in the book. I couldn't believe it. Heartbreaking.
I think they put the maids death in the movie so that death could be brought up by Ellie since Rachel was afraid of death. Ellie talks to Louis about not wanting anyone including Church to die. One of the motivations for Church to be buried in the cemetery.
In the book Louis buries his wife for a few different reasons. 1. He is completely under the control of the burial grounds at this point. 2. A part of him does believe that if he buries his wife sooner than the others, she may come back normal. 3. The main reason he does it is because he knows his wife will come back, and he's hoping she will kill him. By the end of the book Louis knows that his family and life are destroyed and that the only way out is to die. In fact when he sees his wife come back in the book, and he notices her pick up the knife, hes almost glad that it's happening. I love the book and the movie, but goddamn it's easily one the darkest books I've ever read.
Reading this book and The Shining literally gave me chills. I don't know how Stephen King does it, but he has an incredible talent that he's able to use effectively.
Hebert West re-animator.
What about the daughter
Stephen King is a big fan of the Ramones and referenced some of their songs in the novel "Pet Sematary." In homage, The Ramones wrote and performed the theme song "Pet Sematary," which is featured in the film's closing credits. The truck driver was also listening to "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" by The Ramones.
The role of Zelda, Rachel's terminally ill sister, was played by a man. Director Mary Lambert wanted Zelda and her scenes to frighten the audience but did not believe that a 13-year old girl was scary so she cast Andrew Hubatsek in the role to make something be "off about Zelda."
Tom Savini turned down the chance to direct the film.
Gage's hand lurching from the grave is a homage to the end of Carrie (1976).
When Church is found dead alongside the highway, a fake cat was used.
When Victor Pascow is being carried into the clinic after being hit by a truck, a rabies poster with a picture of Cujo can be seen on the bulletin board by the stairs.
Both of your insights are superb! My mom loved the book/movie so much she named me Gage! Can't wait for your next review!
Before parenthood: Man, this book is dark.
After becoming a parent: You know...I'd be dead inside and looking for any way to fix that, too.
yes this is so true i cant even watch this move anymore
I always thought Jud took him to use cemetery on the cat to show Lewis the power of the cemetery. Also how when the dead comes back it isn’t the same. I believe he was warning him by showing him an example. Lewis wouldn’t have believed his words. Lewis saw what happened to the cat and still used it again.
Well, according to the book, jud is under the influence or basically being controlled by the wendigo and the burial ground itself. He took louis to the burial ground even though he didn't really want to. He regrets taking him there. But he did it bc he had to.
When I was a kid, I thought that this was the scariest movie that I had ever seen. It is still is one of the creepiest movies that I have seen to this day.
Nice work on the review, you guys nailed it. As much as I enjoy the movie, they just left out too much from the novel for it to really work like it needed to. I wouldn't say that those that lead people to the graveyard are weak-willed, just that it's a perfect storm of grief, desperation, and genuine overwhelming supernatural influence. With Church, Louis doesn't want Elly to have to hurt and as you mentioned his wife has this huge trauma regarding death because of her childhood, and Judd is driven by the Wendigo to take him. On top of that, Louis is still pretty sure the legends are bullshit until Church shows up the next day. With Gage, Louis is drowning in grief and pain, Rachel is emotionally checked out, and the Wendigo straight-up wills Judd into unconsciousness to prevent him from stopping the reburial.
This is all in the book, but it's really difficult to convey in a visual medium where you can't literally read the characters' minds. On top of that, the key theme of the Wendigo is hunger. These people are pulled to it generation after generation because no matter how many lives it consumes, it will never be enough. The only people who can (relatively) safely live near it are people who have nothing to lose, because attachment is the hook it uses to continue the chain of burial, loss, and evil.
EDIT: Clarified the comment a bit.
40:59: I was scarred by that same sequence too! The nightmares this scene gave me as a kid, far more chilling and blood curdling than any child with a scalpel.
Judd was the cause for most of the tragedies in the movie when he got lewis to bury his daughters cat in the sour burial ground.knowing what would happen..he was the only character that truly got what he deserved
Except it wasn't ever really his fault. It's pretty clear that the wendigo has control over the people in the area
It's Jud
“Ahhh Yaaahh Louuuiiissss...Tha Ground To Ahh Mann’s Harrtt Iss Stoniaah...(lights a Winston)”-Judd
Somehow I think he enjoys both lol
Great film from a superb book. First read it when the paperback was released. I was working nightshift as a security guard in a hospital morgue. Definitely recommend the book, but not when you're sharing a room with Mr Rigor Mortis & co!
...and I’m Gary! 😄
This is one of my favorite SK books and adaptations. Thanks for the review.
I need an Off the Shelf Reviews T-shirt. Awesome review as always!
The artist formerly known as Aaren J thats a good start to get that shirt
He goes to all the trouble of raising his son from the dead, and then doesn't even check he gets home safely. He could have been hit by another truck.
Thank God Hollywood didn't remake this classic! I love it!
Hi...2019 here. Guess what buddy ?
Ha, ha! Sorry, buddy, the remake was a dismal attempt...😝😆
This is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. Not the scariest, not the grossest, not the goriest, but disturbing. (And I'm not saying that as an insult - I'm attributing it to the movie's effectiveness) This movie just unnerved me on a level that no other movie has done.
new sub.. good analysis and overall chat, gents.
This movie has some flaws, but it’s still one of my favourite horror films. That truck scene and the scene at the funeral after that really went for it! Love it
Thanks for bringing back my childhood nightmares...
On a side note, I once knew a smoking hot chick who had a son named Gage. He looked exactly like Gage in the movie. Kind of scared me away. I regret that. I wish I knew where she is now.
Out of all of Stephen's King's movie adaptations, Salem's Lot is the scariest. I also think that had a lot to do with Tobe Hooper. He changed Barlow from an ordinary looking man to a ghoul. I watched Salem's Lot as a child and now as a middle-aged man, and I am still freaked out by the vampires - the kid at the window, the boy in the coffin, the guy in the rocking chair. Barlow. The atmosphere is awesome. The acting brilliant. Pet Sematary, for me, is just plain dull. Isn't scary in the slightest and is 'loved by many people who saw it as young children. It's that thought of being scared as a kid, which keeps their love for this awful movie alive.
Is that even really a Tobe Hooper idea though? I feel like a lot of directors would have realised that script wasn't really scary and gone looking for ways to make the vampires more effective, and the Max Schreck look has historically been the most consistently successful method of accomplishing that task (at least in lieu of just writing a better story).
@@DistractedGlobeGuy The idea was that if they made Barlow speak, he would be mentally compared to every Dracula ever. Making him some kind of "thing" took that off the table. He changed all of the vampires from just "people with fangs" to something inhuman, a supernatural parasite masking itself as its prey.
I love these guys
I just watched it for the first time. It seemed to me that the housekeeper lady’s stomach hurt because she was having premonitions about the future events, like the daughter did. I think maybe she knew what would happen to the family?
I remember watching this movie very fondly as a 5/6-yr-old kid, it *scared the **_HOLY HELL_* out of me, thanks to its overwhelmingly dark & nightmarish atmosphere and tone. I did not know what I had gotten myself into, and it *_shook_* me down to my inner core. I didn't even want to look at the video tape it was recorded on. I believe it is one of Stephen King's most frightening movies.
i like the song from The Ramones
Zelda gave me nightmares after I saw this in my youth.
" 1st I played with JUD
then I played with MOMMY
now I want to play with YOU "
Yeeeeuuuu
@Skeptical Rebekah
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Love you guys! Review Creepshow and Enemy Mine!
Louis and Rachel play grieving parents very well.
You know, read the book and then saw the film in the theatre when it was first released. King did a brilliant job of adapting his book to film. Never saw it again or read the book again. I found it just too disturbing. The Director did a superb job of capturing the feel of the story., it's just that the story is just too horrible.
Jud's accent is a typical country main accent. They don't sound like hillbilly southerners. Jud has the typical Yankee farmer accent
You don't live in the USA at all. All southerners don't have accents.
Ay-yuh.
@@mikerodgers7620 Everyone has some kind of accent.
@@zarasbazaar no
@@mikerodgers7620
Um as someone who lives in Minnesota, whos grandmother lived in Alabama.. YES TF THEY DO LMAO. What the actual f are you even talking about 🤣
Give Iain a black belt in tv reference for mentioning Time Trax with Dale Midkiff.
This is the only movie I can think of that is as scary as it's heartbreaking, specially the second Gage death.
I've seen the movie and read the book and even though I'm not a parent, the scenes after Gage's death and the moments following after it really messed with me and I actually had to a take a break midway through the book involving Louis's grief because I couldn't take it anymore. Though if I ever became a parent and learned of a burial place like that there'd be no way in hell I'd do something so stupid. I have pets and I couldn't even imagine bringing them back like they are in the book because whatever heart or sanity I had left would just be gone.
Again as someone who was born and raised in Chicago and Chicagoland area. THERE WOULD BE NOTHING GREEN (Plants) ALIVE AFTER HALLOWEEN!
Zombie Gage always freaked me out
Killer!
Youse guys are adding entertainment value to the world big-time!
Way to go!
So, when can we expect a full review of Pet Semetary 2? Just joking! By the by, the face out of the rocks trying to stop Luis is indeed Victor. It was poorly done CG but it was him.
***Sees notification... Suddenly turns into Muscle Man from The Regular Show***
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SAVAGE! SAVAGE! SAVAGE!
I first saw your review on "Another Earth" so I'm subscribed for the long haul. I enjoy this setup a lot
I always thought the poster had Brad Dourif on it lol
It looks like him
The land is soured by the wendigo, a native American legend that's defined by greed, and cannibalism. When he takes a bite out of Judd, he's exhibiting signs of the wendigo.
This was a great review, lot of fun, I agree with most of the points you guys raised. Super thorough, well put.
At the moment they're looking to remake this film, which I'm all for, because I don't feel like they managed to really get the pervasive sense of sorrow and complete dread that the book did. Though it's still a pretty solid flick. The only thing that bums me out is I think the casting for Judd was perfect. Good luck outdoing that performance!
Zelda Scared THEE FUCK out of me when i was a kid ...nightmares
I recently learned that Mary Lambert also directed Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge. I've loved and watched the movie for years and never knew that! As sequels go, it's got a more dark and serious tone compared to the original that I really love, and it really holds up well.
25:28 Yes, those local ancient indian burial grounds in Plymouth are a real problem.
Matthias_ Verhaeghe Notorious for them
I especially love how this book and the Mist are linked together....
I was an avid reader of King as a teenager so went to see this in my final teenage year when it was new at the cinema- not a patch on the book and the start of my realisation that fabulous King books could be adapted into truly dreadful movies.
Excellent. Love this review.
Dale Midkiff
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I saw it on UA-cam
It's Louis Creed
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I think Mrs. Dandridge dying was left in to show the mom, Rachel's, neurotic fear of death. Which then led to her explaining her childhood experience with her sister Zelda, and how that death influenced her entire life thereafter.
Don't read Pet Semetary when you live next to a huge cemetery.
It's Pet Sematary
@@ElvisPresleyfan80 Still scary as hell.
I need Iain's shirt. Take my money!
One thing I would expand on is the fact that in the book Jud had a wife (Norma.) When Louis tried to help her Jud felt he owed Louis a favor and tried to repay him by "saving" Ellie's cat. The whole seems a lot more reasonable makes sense.
Norma is in the movie, too.
Did anybody watch ghostwriter on pbs? The little girl is in that show.
I've already faced and grieved about death so much that I told my family and friends not to tell me any more deaths
I've just discovered this video and really loved this review of pet sematary. This has always been a favorite of mine. I too started watching the movies on TV and my uncle told me to read this book. i's partly his fault why I've so into horror in the first place Anyway, one day years after watching the movie, I did read it and absolutely loved. it. I do think the book was awesome too. And yeah Zelda still scares me. I think this gets scarier as I get older because while I don't have children of my own, I do have nieces and I'm really close with them so the stuff with Gage is always hard. I think this is so scary because of the horror of losing a small child and it being so unbearable. Great review!
I love the time trax reference. My dad and I loved that show
Great review guys not seen this for years
MY MISSUS ACTUALLY GIPPED AT THE BATH & RAT SCENE
FUCKING HILARIOUS IT WAS
My brother does that Gage voice brilliantly, and I have become so depressed that I'll never get out of bed again.
@Lebo leigh Leigh well, I am except that was supposed to be a reference to the part where the mom's sister said she'd never get out of bed again.
Loved the way the old guy pronounced road
Jud Crandall played by the late great Fred Gwynne
Was he herman munster?
Yes
Ramones: Pet Semetary. Fuckin' classic!
Salem's Lot is a fantastic TV mini series based on King's work, so creepy
Damn good book, too. I used to dislike the original mini-series, but mainly because I was a little ghoul who wanted high body counts, and gore, over story/characters/etc. I tend to think King's best work are his short stories, but Salem's Lot is the exception.
Mr Zeus Oh I know. TCM, Eaten Alive, TCM2, Life Force all fantastic films all by Hooper so yeah it's no surprise it's great.
I disagree. Aside from the vampire scenes, the tv movie of Salem's Lot is insanely boring and dated as all hell. I'm still waiting for a proper adaptation of the novel for the big screen.
Kei Kurono it's all good, that's your opinion 😀
I’ve already asked the guys to review Salem’s Lot. So unnerving
The Creeds WERE happily married in the book. The only issue between them was the topic of death and if Ellie should deal with it or not.
He's getting his revenge for not being protected by his Parent's Sounds Fair .
Review Wolfen and American Werewolf in London.
in the book it just ends with her popping up behind louis and hes like hello my love then it ends
watching this movie, i always thought that the suicide was a fake-out resurrection plot where they might hint at the doctor trying to bring her back after the funeral. Then again, i haven't seen this move in over 5 years, so my memory is a little wonky.
THAT ROAD AND THOSE
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Gage's 1st death scene, kills me on the inside every time. Nonetheless I still like, this movie.
Mickko Hughes is excellently cute/creepy in this - and I just realised he was also Simon (in Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis) - he pulled off an excellent performance in that movie too
It's Miko Hughes
This is the one movie I remember my mum telling me I wasn't aloud to watch when I was younger.Which is weird considering I'd seen child's play and the evil dead well before that.
The daughter, Ellie, in Pet Cemetery has the “Shine.” 🙂🙂🙂🙂.
Iain: “one thing I’ve learnt from watching this film is never take your eyes off your kids, EVER” 😅😂😂
I was wondering as well if you sell those "Off the Shelf" t-shirts? Great review by the way. 🙂"Sometimes dead is better." 💀💀💀
The book ends when Rachel comes home and greets Louis, but after she enters the kitchen and greets him it's unclear as to what his fate is.
I think that's alot creepier than the movie's ending, or it could be interpreted as creepy and/or sweet
While the novel doesn't say what happened to Louis at the end, we can assume she killed him because we know that the dead don't come back the same. I suppose Louis could have maybe killed her again, but either way she didn't come back as his loving wife.
The face that popped out of The Rock was Rachel's dad I believe. Whether I'm right or wrong that scene was creepy as hell. Especially if I put myself in Lewis's shoes holding my dead son in my arms in the creepy Forest and I see a face come out of a rock like that. God!!!! I would have had a heart attack LOL.
Remember watching this at 11 at 2 am in the morning Zelda and little Gage the killer baby were the most memorable parts
I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery....
It's Pet Sematary
Do a Cujo review.
YES, PLEASE. Would like it as well.
I have that same Pennywise shirt! Greetings from Maine!
hopefully not Derry!!
You live in Maine? You got balls, as evil is everywhere there! ;-)
The attic scene from the sequel looks like a Madonna video, it all makes sense now!!
More Stephen king reviews guys this one is spot on thankyou 👏👍👌
My dad once told me he used to read every Stephen king book but he stopped at pet cemetery because it bugged the hell out of him his favorite Stephen king book is misery and yes I have watched pet cemetery the original movie in fact I happen to own it and it bugged me to in fact I’ve only watched it once that is enough for me
I agree with your father. Misery for me is the best SK book, Pet Sematary is the darkest and scariest. I was almost too scared to finish it.
Book is great.
Don't know why I never connected this story to "The Monkey's Paw" until watching this review.
Wishmaster is like the movie version of the monkeys paw
If y’all haven’t seen Deathdream by Bob “Black Christmas” Clark, you really ought to. It’s got a similar plot and is a wonderfully creepy little film from the early 70’s.