A family known as the
Creed's move into a peaceful house on the
countryside except they are bothered by
two things, a roadway that trucks speed
through all the time which makes it
unsafe to be near the roadway and a
pathway near their house that leads to a
pet cemetary as well as a burial ground
that the neighbors are reluctant to talk
about.
Also, the family man and paramedic Louis
(Dale Midkiff) doesn't see eye to eye
with his inlaws, his wife Rachel (Denise
Crosby) is still scarred about the past
of his older crippled sister who died
while encountering this moment and is
blamed for her death and their daughter
Ellie (Blaze Berdahl) is having
nightmares about the roadway and her cat
Church being hit by one of the trucks.
During the middle of the night, a ghost
named Victor Pascow (Brad Greenquist)
whom Louis tried to save after being hit
by a truck tries to warn him about not
going to the burial ground.
Rachel goes to visit her family with the
kids but Louis stays behind and his
eccentric neighbor Jud Crandall (Fred
Gwynne) shows him the terrible news as
that nightmare came true about Church
being killed. Rachel is too hesitant to
tell his daughter the upsetting news and
is about to bury the cat in the cemetary
but Jud takes him to the burial ground as
Church is resurrected but he is not the
same and acts viciously evil and still
smells like a rotting corpse.
Suddenly, their son Gage (Miko Hughes)
winds up running to the middle of the
road to hold onto a kite during a family
picnic and is hit by a speeding truck and
the family loses their minds.
Louis plans to go to the burial ground
once again but this time Jud tries to
stop him as he explains what has happened
there during his childhood when a family
member or a pet was killed and they tried
to do so explaining that sometimes dead
is better.
Louis doesn't listen and suddenly Gage
and the cat decides to kill and Louis
needs to stop this before he is next.
The film had a
heartwarming family with a lovely pet as
you don't want to twist things around and
make it a nightmare for all of them and
this was just what Stephen King did
as he is the master of psychological and
supernatural horror.
I was upset seeing the loving cat die and
then become evil once resurrected in the
burial ground as well as the flashback
memories too which showed that some of
the family members had a few skeletons in
their closet.
It was dark and horrifying especially
seeing the trucks speeding by very fast
along the country roadside making the
peaceful neighborhood a dangerous place
to be at the same time.
The dead cat looked real but thankfully
it said on the closing credits that no
animals were harmed during the filming. I
am a cat lover.
The acting is very
good as we have a great energetic
performance by Louis Creed as
the family man in the film. He shows
great intensity, aggressions, emotions
and niceness in one throughout the whole
story.
Fred Gwynne comes across perfectly
as the eccentric neighbor in the film and
had the perfect looks too for the part as
he almost seems like half crazy and
disturbed and says his words perfectly.
Denise Crosby is another fine cast
member as the wife and Mom in the film
and really knew how to express her
emotions clearly on screen.
Brad Greenquist was terrific and
knew how to act creepy as a gruesome
ghost trying to warn the family about the
burial ground and was good at being a
good ghost even if he comes across as an
evil one.
Miko Hughes is incredibly charming
as the toddler in the family and for such
a young tender age really knew how to do
his part and also does great with his
evil actions after being resurrected.
Blaze Berdahl knew how to act so
full of life as the daughter showing a
nice attitude as you wouldn't want to
break her heart.
Victor Pascow's
head is sliced exposing his brain
A chopped off child's foot is exposed
during a flashback memory
Jud is being cut up by a dissecting knife
A woman's face is half torn off
Mary Lambert came
on to direct this piece showing that
women can direct horror films too as she
was wonderful with her work on it.
She shows good shots around the cemetary
in the woods for the opening credits as
well as suspenseful shots on trucks
speeding by the country roads as you
cringe thinking that someone is going to
get hit.
A good start off by Dale Midkiff coming
out of his car seeming happy with the
other cast played by Denise Crosby,
Miko Hughes and Blaze
Berdahl looking around the property.
There's a nice peaceful shot on Crosby
tucking Blaze Berdahl in bed
with the cat in the bed with her.
There's a good scene with Fred Gwynne
towards Berdahl in the cemetary
telling her a scary type of tale.
There is a good dialogue between Berdahl
talking to Midkiff about
being scared that her cat will get hit by
a vehicle and being a little emotional
about it.
A great intense moment with Brad
Greenquist as a corpse being hauled
into a hospital with the extra's going
ballistic and Midkiff trying to
help out.
There is a perfect creepy scene with Midkiff
in a hospital room covering up Brad
Greenquist and then Greenquist grabs
him and talks to him with a great shocked
expression by Midkiff.
A nice creepy shot on Midkiff and
Greenquist walking down the
misty pathway to the Pet Semetary at
night as well as nice effects at the
semetary with Greenquist
sounding ghoul like talking to Midkiff
warning him not to go to the burial
ground which was the best and darkest
direction of all.
A good shot on Gwynne looking up
at him wearing a jacket with his hood on
when he tells his neighbor about a
roadkill and Midkiff shaken up
wondering what to tell his daughter which
looked believeable too.
Midkiff does well talking on the
phone with his nervous words with
Gwynne sounding happy on her holiday
at her grandparents as Lambert
made that setting so good that you
wouldn't want to devastate the poor
little girl.
There's great shots on Midkiff and
Gwynne walking through the
Semetary woods and the hills up to a
burial ground which has a spooky feel to
it.
Many good shots on the cat hissing and
acting vicious especially a moment when Midkiff
was going to relax in a nice hot bath
with a towel over his head and the cat
dropping a dead rat in his bath with him
freaking out at the cat.
There's a nice distrubing moment with Crosby
when she tells Midkiff about her
past crippled sister. She really knew how
to act emotional when she tells him she
always dreams about it.
Lambert shows a good setting with Midkiff
helping out Hughes flying a kite as it
looks like a real father and toddler type
of chemistry as well as a terrifying shot
on Hughes walking down towards a road
with a speeding truck coming by which
makes it look truly disturbing.
A perfect shot on Midkiff
screaming NOOOOO!!!! After this tragedy
has happened along with some good
flashbacks on some baby pictures.
There's a major perfectly intense moment
with supporting actor Michael Lombard
going ballistic towards Midkiff
at the funeral and attacking him along
with a good shot of them accidentally
knocking over the coffin and falling to
the ground with others crying.
We spot a good dark dialogue between Gwynne
telling Midkiff about that
burial ground when he plans to bury his
son there as he explains what has
happened after people or pets were buried
there of not being the same and
explaining that being dead is better and
does well by crying when he goes through
this afterwards.
Nice dark shots on Midkiff
digging up his sons grave as well as him
climbing up to the burial ground.
A good shot on some rocks falling off the
burial ground with a little hand coming
out.
We have a good dialoge between
Berdahl crying towards Crosby
about her dream of a ghost telling her
that ole Daddy is in danger for
resurrecting the dead and Crosby does
well trying to assure her that there's no
such thing as ghosts..
Nice shots on the little hands opening up
a case and taking out a dissecting knife.
We spot great blocking on Hughes
walking by holding the dissecting knife
showing nasty expressions on his face.
A
good shot on Gwynne sleeping in
his chair and then opening his eyes
acting alarmed as well as a nice moment
with him holding a knife and calling out
to Gage.
There's a good shot on Hughes
trying to act innocent walking up to Crosby
holding a dissecting knife telling
her he has something for him and her
acting sympathetic and hugging him as you
know the something deadly is going to
happen.
Midkiff does well freaking out on
the phone when his son tells him what he
did and that he's next.
A good shot on Midkiff with
teary eyes staring at his son after what
he did to save his neck.
Terrific chanting sounds
with cold sounding piano playing during
the opening credits composed by Elliott
Goldenthal as it leaves the film off
with a great start plus he played many
dark sounds for the story too.
We have a perfect songtrack
by the Ramones during the
closing credits with their song of
"Pet Semetary" as it gives the
film a perfect touch for the ending of
it.
Gage: [on the the
phone] Hi daddy I love you... Hi
Daddy I love you.
Louis Creed: [to
the cat] Fuck off, hairball!
Jud Crandall:
Sometimes dead is better.
[Talking on the phone]
Gage: First I play with Judd, then
Mommy came, and I play with Mommy. We
play Daddy! We had a awfully good time!
Now, I want to play with YOU!
Louis Creed: What did you do?
Gage: HE HA!
Louis Creed: What did you do?
Louis
Creed: Go on, lay down, play dead, be
dead!
Victor
Pascow: I'm sorry Louis! I'm so
sorry, but don't make it worse! DON'T!
Louis Creed: I waited too long
with Gage, but with Rachel! It will work
this time, because she just died, SHE
JUST DIED A LITTLE WHILE AGO!
Gage:
No Fair! No Fair, No Fair!
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