10/20/25 - 31 Days of Halloween Movies
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (204307)
United States
October 20, 2025 2:10am CST
1989 - Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a supernatural horror film directed by Mary Lambert and adapted from a novel of the same name by Stephen King.
The Creed family, Louis (Dale Midhitt) and Rachel (Denise Crosby), their children Ellen "Ellie" (Blaze Berdahl) and Gage (Mike Hughes) and their cat Winston "Church" Churchill move to Ludlow, Maine. The house is on a busy road full of large trucks. Louis is going to be the local doctor.
They make acquaintance with their neighbor across the street, Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne). He takes them to the pet cemetery which is in the forest.
During Thanksgiving when most of the family is away, Church gets hit and killed by a truck. Ellie will be devastated. Jud takes Louis on a long hike to an area beyond the pet cemetery which was a sacred burial ground for the Mi'kmaq. He instructs Louis to bury the cat there and to tell no one. The next day Church returns to the house...but he's not the same.
Some time later Gage is killed by a truck on the same road....
"Sometime dead is better."
I saw this movie for the first time last weekend. It was pretty good and not so scary that I couldn't watch it.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
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@LindaOHio (204307)
• United States
20 Oct
Yes creepy. Fortunately it wasn't too scary. I can't watch really scary movies.
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@LindaOHio (204307)
• United States
20 Oct
Yes, the movie wasn't too bad. I don't like really scary movies.
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@LadyDuck (485725)
• Italy
21 Oct
@LindaOHio - I like scary movies, but not to watch them if I am home alone.
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@LindaOHio (204307)
• United States
21 Oct
@LadyDuck I watched this one during the day. I won't watch them at night.
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@celticeagle (181019)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Oct
Pet Cemetary always sticks out in my mind. It was so awful. Church's return always sticks out in my mind. I saw it years ago. I guess they've even made a remake of it. Ugh!
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@celticeagle (181019)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Oct
@LindaOHio ......Scenes from it still stay with me where others I have forgotten them completely. Having to do with a cat I guess.
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@RasmaSandra (90144)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Oct
I saw it once and then I jsut could not look at it again, Perhaps I will try one more time,
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@LindaOHio (204307)
• United States
21 Oct
I didn't like the parts when the cat and people came back to life.
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@LeaPea2417 (38606)
• Toccoa, Georgia
20 Oct
I heard of it but never had the urge to watch it.
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@JESSY3236 (21180)
• United States
21 Oct
I loved this movie and the book is great too.
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@LindaOHio (204307)
• United States
22 Oct
I have the book The Stand. Haven't read it as yet. Didn't see the series they made out of it.
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@porwest (109945)
• United States
23 Oct
@LindaOHio I have read it three times. Twice on the original version and once on the extended version. It was that good. One other book I have read more than once was Peter Straub's Ghost Story. That is another fantastic one.
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@LindaOHio (204307)
• United States
24 Oct
@porwest I'll have to read The Stand. It's 700 pages though and the print is so small! Thanks for Ghost Story recommendation.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (85802)
• Rupert, Idaho
20 Oct
Another one of his that I did see....but only once and wasn't one on my rewatch list. Great info as always though!
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