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- Time Period. The novel makes it clear that the story of Pet Sematary is happening over an entire year as the Creed family goes through all four seasons.
- Moving Houses. All versions of Pet Sematary show the Creed family moving to the rural town of Ludlow, Maine. It happens when Dr. Louis Creed gets a job at the University of Maine, so he decides to move to Maine with his wife, Rachel, two children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Church.
- Norma Crandall's Death. A major change in both the original 1989 movie and the 2019 remake is that Norma Crandall is dead long before the films even begin.
- Pascow. Three versions of Pet Sematary have led to the creation of three different versions of Victor Pascow. The only thing that is similar in the three versions is the way in which Louis first meets Pascow.
- Norma Crandall Is Dead Before The Movie Begins
- Jud's Pet Dog Turns Violent
- Zelda Dies in A Dumb Waiter Accident
- Church Doesn't Die Again in Pet Sematary 2019
- Ellie Dies Instead of Gage in Pet Sematary 2019
- Pet Sematary's Ending in The Novel and 1989 Movie
- Pet Sematary 2019 Completely Changes The Ending
In the 2019 adaptation of Pet Sematary, Jud says that he felt compelled to take Louis up to the burial ground to bring Church back because he felt sorry for Ellie, and also because the dark power of the place compelled him to share its secret. While these reasons are also present in the book, there was originally another major reason why Jud helped...
There's one major change to Jud Crandall's backstory in Kölsch and Widmyer's book that casts his later actions in a much more unfavorable light. After Church comes back to life, filthy and mean, Louis demands to know more about the burial ground. Jud reveals that it has been used many times over the years, and that when he was a boy he took his own...
Rachel Creed's traumatic experience with her sister, Zelda (Alyssa Levine), is a core part of Pet Sematary's story, but the 2019 movie makes Zelda's death more violentthan in the book or Lambert's movie. Zelda suffered from spinal meningitis, which twisted her body, caused her great pain, and prevented her from getting out of bed, and Rachel explai...
One detail from the two previous versions of Pet Sematarythat's left out of the 2019 movie is Church the cat's testicles. When the family first move to the new house, Church is not neutered and has a bold and feisty personality. Louis privately has an aversion to getting Church neutered because he hates the idea of the cat turning lazy and mellow. ...
Now we come to the biggest change in the new adaptation of Pet Sematary: which of the Creed children dies. In both King's novel and Lambert's movie, it's poor little Gage. Gage takes off running towards the road while his parents are distracted, and although Louis gives chase and comes very close to catching him, he isn't able to stop his son from ...
From Ellie's death onwards, the ending of Pet Sematary changes drastically. One element that remains the same is Rachel taking her surviving child to her parents' house, and Louis staying behind with plans to resurrect the remaining child. Rachel also returns in all three versions of the story, but it's only in the 2019 Pet Sematarythat she brings ...
InPet Sematary2019, Ellie comes home to Louis before killing anyone. He gives her a bath and fresh clothes and puts her to bed, and they have a talk in which Ellie makes it clear that she knows she died and was brought back. Louis is unnerved by her strange behavior and disturbed when he finds the staples in the back of her head while washing her, ...
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- Ellie Creed. As previously noted, Ellie gets the biggest shakeup in this film. Gone is the book’s slightly whiny, precognitive child riddled with anxiety about the death and her cat.
- Gage Creed. Yes, Gage survives this film, but he isn’t some unimportant toddler, either. In the book, Ellie has premonitions about the pet cemetery, and visions of what it might do to her family.
- Jud Crandall. Jud is also noticeably different in this film. First of all, as noticed in the trailers, John Lithgow doesn’t do Jud’s famous Maine accent.
- The Kid Cult. One minor point of contention for King fans after watching the trailer was the presence of a kid cult wearing animal masks. The masks are, in fact, a new addition, and no cult ever directly appears in the book.
May 7, 2019 · In both Stephen King’s book and the two movies, the story of “Pet Sematary” starts when the Creed family move to the spooky rural town of Ludlow, Maine. But, while in the book and the 1989 movie the family is moving from Chicago, the new 2019 film has them moving from Boston instead.
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- The cat coming back to life sets everything in motion in the book, but the movie speeds it up. Pet Sematary is weird, insofar as that there aren’t actually a ton of pets that come back to life.
- The backstory of another creepy kid brought back from the dead has been cut. For a movie about people and pets coming back to life, there’s actually not all that many undead resurrections.
- Jud’s wife is alive in the first part of the book. In the movie, Jud’s wife is integral to the backstory of the “sour ground,” insofar as we discover that Jud brought his wife back to life, and she returned evil and demonic.
- Louis views Jud as a father-figure in the book. The movie ditches one important aspect of Louis's backstory in favor of moving the story along. As it stands in the movie, we get the sense that though Louis likes Jud okay, he doesn’t really trust him.
Pet Sematary contains the DNA of two horror classics. The first is W. W. Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw, a 1902 short story that is a warning to the curious about tampering with fate. An enchanted object grants three wishes, but these exact a heavy cost (think Aladdin by Blumhouse Productions).
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Jul 3, 2024 · Overall, the 1989 adaptation of Pet Sematary falls in the beloved category, which is why when another adaptation was announced, fans were leery. Every adaptation has to cut or change things from the book it's adapting, and the 2019 Pet Sematary is no different.
