Pet Sematary (1989) on Netflix
Louis Creed moves his family from Chicago to Ludlow, Maine. When their cat is killed on the highway, neighbor Jud Crandall shows him the pet cemetery in the woods behind their house.
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Plot summary
Louis Creed, a physician, moves his wife Rachel and their children Ellie and Gage from Chicago to a house in rural Ludlow, Maine, where he takes a job as a local doctor. Their neighbor Jud Crandall shows the family the pet cemetery in the forest behind the house. Victor Pascow, a jogger struck by a truck on the road, calls Louis by name though the two have never met, and that night Pascow's ghost appears to Louis at the cemetery with a warning not to go past the barrier. While the family is away for Thanksgiving, their cat Church is struck by a truck and dies. Jud takes Louis past the pet cemetery into the forest, to an old Miꞌkmaq burial ground, and tells him to bury the cat there and say nothing about it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pet Sematary (1989)
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- Paramount only greenlit Pet Sematary because the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike left the studio facing a shortage of new productions for its 1989 release schedule.
- Paramount wanted a cost-saving pair of twins to play Gage Creed, but director Mary Lambert lobbied to cast two-year-old Miko Hughes instead, and had to overcome the studio's separate objection to casting Fred Gwynne, whom executives feared audiences would only see as Herman Munster.
- Jud Crandall's house was not a real building but a facade built around an existing structure and insulated with fireproof material specifically so the mock-up could be safely set on fire for the film.
- The Ramones wrote and recorded the title track "Pet Sematary" specially for the film, and it went on to become one of the band's biggest hits, reaching number four on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart even though many of their own hardcore fans reportedly hated it.
