Pet Semetary - Blech!

[F5]

It was an abyssmal ending, totally destroying the suspence and horror of the book's ending (which I thought is probably the best ending in any King book I've read).

Refresh my memory (I haven't read the book OR seen the movie in a long, long time)...how were the endings different?

 

[Kahuna Burger]

As for whether or not the movie is deserving of criticism or production values, that's an assessment that should be made contemporaneously with its release.

disagree. A movie is an product with a long shelf life and you can continue to criticize it as long as it's in circulation.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Refresh my memory (I haven't read the book OR seen the movie in a long, long time)...how were the endings different?

Well in the movie, the husband buries the wife in the Indian burial ground and she comes back only to kill him, leaving their daughter an orphan. Not sure about the book.

 

[WayneLigon]

Well in the movie, the husband buries the wife in the Indian burial ground and she comes back only to kill him, leaving their daughter an orphan. Not sure about the book.

Spoiler

In the book, during the fight with the boy, the wife dies. He's upset, obviously, and starts to think... what if it was because I took so long to put him up there? She's right here, so maybe if I go now... And he does, and buries her. He hears her come in the door behind him later, and she lays a hand on his shoulder and says 'Darling...'. So, his supposition was correct to at least a point; his son had no speech if I remember correctly. Soooo, it could be she was OK and just alive again, or she was possessed by whatever it is that indwells in people buried there and it was just stronger.. who knows?

 

[Cheiromancer]

To add to WaynLigon's spoiler:

Spoiler

He is playing solitaire when she comes in. And it is just as he turns over the Queen of Spades that she puts her hand on his shoulder and says, with a voice full of dirt,... "Darling."

If I remember correctly, that is. Pretty creepy ending.

 

[frankthedm]

The movie has kinda grown on me after watching it ONdemand a few times. I liked the cat, the oldguy and the creepy woods.

 

[GlassJaw]

Forget Pet Semetary! The old-school Stephen King movie you want to see is Graveyard Shift. I love that movie!

 

[griff_goodbeard]

While overall it stunk, I thought Clancy Brown was was good in the sequel.

The first one was way creepy. Don't think I've seen it since I was a kid though.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Just saw this for this for the first time. What a horrible, horrible movie. How the heck did it manage to get a sequel?

The way ALL such movies get sequels - however incomprehensible it may be, the FIRST one made money. It doesn't matter HOW it made money, only that it DID. It can be the most excreble, excruciating movie experience of your life - but they might still have duped enough poor sods into getting in to see it on opening weekend to turn a profit, or dupe a few more with the DVD release, or dupe the French, or Germans, or Japanese, or Chileans into seeing it as well.

And then they do it again. This is how you get Police Academy SIX. Or any movie that stars Rob Schneider. Or take a terrific, iconic movie like Jaws and eventually come up with Jaws 4. Or ANY movie based on ANY video/computer game EVER again.

 

[Dog Moon]

Well, when I watched the movie like 12 years ago or something like that, I was young and thought it was awesome. A few years back I watched it again and while I still liked the idea behind it, the actual movie I found to be meh. That's the difference between watching it at 12 and watching it at 20 though.