Pet Sematary (1989)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Mary Lambert

Escritores (WGA):

Stephen King (novel)
Stephen King (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 abril 1989 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Fantasía | Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Sometimes dead is better.

Plot:

The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two...

Plot Keywords:

Cat | Cemetery | Pet | Pet Cemetery | Neighbor

Premios:

1 win & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

one of King's creepiest, bone-curdling stories amid decent film-making

Reparto

Dale Midkiff	...	Louis Creed
Fred Gwynne	...	Jud Crandall
Denise Crosby	...	Rachel Creed
Brad Greenquist	...	Victor Pascow
Michael Lombard	...	Irwin Goldman
Miko Hughes	...	Gage Creed
Blaze Berdahl	...	Ellie Creed
Susan Blommaert	...	Missy Dandridge
Mara Clark	...	Marcy Charlton
Kavi Raz	...	Steve Masterton
Mary Louise Wilson	...	Dory Goldman
Andrew Hubatsek	...	Zelda
Liz Davies	...	Girl at infirmary
Kara Dalke	...	Candystriper
Matthew August Ferrell	...	Jud as a child

También conocida como:

Pet Cemetery (USA) (orthographically correct title)
Stephen King's Pet Sematary (Philippines: English title) (poster title)
Cementerio de mascotas (Mexico) [es]
Cementerio viviente (Spain) [es]

Duración:

103 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Netherlands:16 | Iceland:16 | Germany:(Banned) (original rating) | Canada:18A | Finland:K-16 (1993) (video version) (uncut) | Italy:VM18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 (1989) (cut) | France:-12 | Norway:18 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Malaysia:(Banned)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Compañía:

Laurel Productions

Trivialidades:

Two twin actresses played the role of Ellie Creed, Blaze Berdahl however was mainly credited for the role.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Louis is checking on Ellie after she fell off the tire swing his pant legs are down. When Rachel gets up to rush after Gage his pants legs are now rolled up. When he gets up to follow Rachel his pants legs are once again down.

Citas:

Victor Pascow: The barrier was not meant to be crossed. The ground is sour.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Silent Hill (1999) (VG)

Banda de Sonido:

Pet Sematary

one of King's creepiest, bone-curdling stories amid decent film-making

In the trivia section for Pet Sematary, it mentions that George Romero (director of two Stephen King stories, Creepshow and The Dark Half) was set to direct and then pulled out. One wonders what he would've brought to the film, as the director Mary Lambert, while not really a bad director, doesn't really bring that much imagination to this adaptation of King's novel, of which he wrote the screenplay. There are of course some very effective, grotesquely surreal scenes (mainly involving the sister Zelda, likely more of a creep-out for kids if they see the film), and the casting in some of the roles is dead-perfect. But something feels missing at times, some sort of style that could correspond with the unmistakably King-like atmosphere, which is in this case about as morbid as you're going to get without incestuous cannibals rising from the graves being thrown in (who knows if he'll save that for his final novel...)

As mentioned though, some of the casting is terrific, notably Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, the little boy who goes from being one of the cutest little kids this side of an 80's horror movie, to being a little monster (I say that as a compliment, of course, especially in scenes brandishing a certain scalpel). And there is also a juicy supporting role for Fred Gwynne of the Munsters, who plays this old, secretive man with the right notes of under-playing and doom in tone. And applause goes to whomever did the make-up on Andrew Hubatsek. But there are some other flaws though in the other casting; Dale Midkiff is good, not great, as the conflicted, disturbed father figure Creed, and his daughter Ellie is played by an actress that just didn't work for me at all.

In terms of setting up some chilling set-pieces, only a couple really stand-out: a certain plot-thickening moment (not to spoil, it does involve a cool Ramones song), and the first visit to the pet sematary (the bigger one), including the sort of mystical overtones King had in the Shining. For the most part it's a very polished directing job, though it could've been made even darker to correspond with the script. If thought out in logical terms (albeit in King terms) it is really one of his more effective works of the period. But it doesn't add up like it could, or should. Still, it makes for a nifty little midnight movie.