Pet Sematary: Book vs. Movie
Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer's 2019 film Pet Sematary adapts Stephen King's book. Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz play parents whose move to rural Maine brings their family close to a burial ground with an unnatural power.
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
- Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer
- Writer
- Jeff Buhler
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 1 hr 41 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence
- Genre
- ghost, horror, supernatural horror
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
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.
Other adaptations of this book
Pet SemataryMovie · 1989Details
- Director
- Mary Lambert
- Writer
- Stephen King
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 1 hr 43 min
- Cast
- Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Blaze Berdahl
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.
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