Pet Sematary: Book vs. Movie
Mary Lambert's 1989 film Pet Sematary adapts Stephen King's book from his own screenplay. Dale Midkiff plays Louis Creed, a doctor who learns that a burial ground near his family's new home can bring back the dead.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Stephen King
- Year
- 1983
- Pages
- 416Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 41 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Michael C. Hall
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where a busy road runs close to their new home and a children's pet cemetery lies in the woods. After the family cat is killed, his neighbor Jud shows him another place to bury it. What returns makes Louis confront a possibility that grief may soon render almost impossible to resist.
- Director
- Mary Lambert
- Writer
- Stephen King
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 1 hr 43 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Blaze Berdahl
- Genre
- horror, zombie
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Louis Creed cannot save a young accident victim, whose warnings begin following him beyond the hospital. At home, neighbor Jud Crandall introduces him to a burial ground that restores the family's dead cat to a disturbing version of life. Despite what he has seen, Louis becomes drawn to the possibility of reversing a loss no doctor could repair.
Other adaptations of this book
Pet SemataryMovie · 2019Details
- Director
- Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer
- Writer
- Jeff Buhler
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 1 hr 41 min
- Cast
- Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence
Louis and Rachel Creed leave Boston for a quieter home in Maine, but their daughter Ellie discovers a pet cemetery in the surrounding woods. A neighbor leads Louis farther into the forest after the family cat dies, revealing a place with the power to undo death. What comes back unsettles the household and challenges Louis's certainty that he can protect his children.
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