Of all the nightmares Stephen King has given me over the years, none has been so nightmarish as that incurred by his 1983 novel Pet Sematary—and worse still, its ’89 film adaptation (which lured me in against my better judgment with the misleading casting of Herman Munster. Oh how naïve young me was.) The thing about Pet Sematary that makes it leagues more horrifying than, say, The Shining or It or Carrie is that it assigns horror to something that’s supposed to be comforting. Of course abandoned hotels and clowns and high school are mortifying. But our pets? We’re supposed to love our pets!And just like Church the cat, it seems my old fears will be brought back from the dead in the form of a remake 30-years-in-waiting. Watch the first trailer below:
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