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Film · 2019

Pet Sematary

Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer · starring Ines Feghouli, Jeté Laurence and Jason Clarke

  • 1 h 41 min
  • 15
  • Horror
  • USA
  • Released in the UK 3 April 2019
  • 6.4 AverageMovieNCo
  • 6.6 Users20 votes
  • 6.3 Critics5 reviews
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Synopsis

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').

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The essentials

Runtime
101 min1 hour and 41 minutes
Rating
15Suitable only for 15 years and over
How long is Pet Sematary?
1 hour and 41 minutes (101 minutes).
When was Pet Sematary released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 3 April 2019.
Who directed Pet Sematary?
Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer.
Who is in Pet Sematary?
It stars Ines Feghouli, Jeté Laurence, Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz.
Where can I watch Pet Sematary?
In the UK it is available with a subscription on Netflix and Prime Video and with a channel on Apple TV.
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Cast

Full cast (11)
Director
Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer
Writers
Stephen King, Jeff Buhler
Producers
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian

Videos and trailers

All 2 videos
'Pet Sematary' Trailer 2:149 October 2018

Photos and posters

All 7 photos

Reviews

All 5 reviews
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What the critics say average 6.3 from 5 outlets

  • 8.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw A brutally effective and convulsively disturbing story. Read
  • 8.0 The WrapMonica Castillo Its terrifying story about death still leaves audiences with much to think about long after the credits roll, and the twists that lead to a new ending are fun to follow. Read
  • 7.5 The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore Solid if not earthshaking horror pic built around notably good performances (...). The final scene captures the ambiguous creepiness of the novel's end while totally reinventing its content. Read

Soundtrack

All 7 songs
  1. Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy - Full MixArranged, Cornelius Oberhauser Spotify
  2. Pet SemataryStarcrawler Spotify
  3. Dramatic Cue (H)Ronald Hanmer
  4. Deep GriefGerhard Narholz

Trivia

  • Second chance

    Tha film is the second adaptation from homonymous novel published by Stephen King in 1983, first one was in 1989.

  • Good impressions

    After the first screening in South by Southwest, critics have reacted in a positive way.

  • Musical version

    The Ramones have a song called 'Pet Sematary'.

  • 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.

  • Meow Meow

    Six cats have been used in total to interpret the transcendental role of Church, the cat that sets off the descent into the hell of animal graveyard. "Well, actually, there were two cats who did most of the work," said co-director Dennis Widmyer. "Obviously, the screen looks like it's the same cat. That's how good those cats are. "The two especially skilled cats are called Tonic and Leo.

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