Title: Pet Sematary
Original Title: Pet Sematary
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 101 Minutes (1 hour 41 min)
- Genre: Horror
- Studios: Alphaville Films Paramount Pictures
- Distributor: Paramount Pictures
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: April 04 2019
- United States: April 05 2019
Plot
Remake of the 1989 film 'Pet Sematary'
and adapted from the famous Stephen King 1983 novel.
The Creed family, formed of husband Louis (Jason Clarke, 'Zero Dark Thirty'), wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz, 'Stranger Things'), children Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (Hugo and Lucas Lavoie) and cat Church, move to the quaint if isolated town of Ludlow in Maine. To their dismay, the family notice that just stepping off of the curb of their home puts them at risk of being steamrolled by one of the several large trucks that seem to continuously rundown the highway in front of their driveway. To make matters worse, the back of their house holds a decades-old cemetery for local pets. When their beloved cat Church is hit by a truck, next door neighbour Jud (John Lithgow, 'The Crown') helps Louis to bury him. When Louis tells him of how much Church was loved by his daughter, John insists on doing so in the woods rather than in the pet cemetery. Louis is convinced it's mission accomplished - until Church arrives back on their doorstep the next day. It turns out the burial ground has the power to bring pets back to life, but they're never quite the same as they were before...
'Pet Sematary' is directed by Kevin Kölsch ('Holidays') and Dennis Widmyer ('Starry Eyes').
Cast
Videos
January 18 2019
October 10 2018
Photos
Trivia
Second chance
Tha film is the second adaptation from homonymous novel published by Stephen King in 1983, first one was in 1989.
King's story
Paradoxically, considering that Animal Cemetery was by far its greatest success until that date, Stephen King initially did not want it published. After writing it, he hid the novel in a drawer for three years, and only agreed to publish the novel after his wife, Tabitha, convinced him to fulfill a contractual commitment with the publisher. The reason for his reluctance was that it was his most personal novel to date, based on the year he had spent, with his family, in Orrington, Maine, while King was teaching at his old university. There the house they rented King was next to a road with so much traffic that the children of the place had built their own animal cemetery for pets that were victims of constant accidents. The idea of ??the animal cemetery was inspired by a personal experience, when the cat of King's daughter, Smucky, died hit on the road next to the family home. Shortly after, another truck was about to kill Owen, the novelist's two-year-old son, on the same road.
Good impressions
After the first screening in South by Southwest, critics have reacted in a positive way.
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