Reacting to *Pet Sematary (1989)*
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"Sometimes...dead is better."
Yeah yeah dead is better yeah yeah
Judd is played by Fred Gwynn. Who also played Herman Munster
Thinking about it, I reckon Fred Gwynne would have been thrilled to have people recognise him from any other role than Herman Munster
I'd never seen him out of that makeup before and yet I recognized his voice immediately!
@@XenFayed yeah mate. His voice was sooo unique and deep.
He was also the judge in My Cousin Vinny.
That booming voice of his it so iconic for me. His accent comes from the golden age of Hollywood, reminds me of Katherine Hepburn
Zelda frightened the hell out of me when I was younger.
Same! Always had to cover my eyes whenever this was on TV.
Same 😂 now she just makes me laugh. Poor girl needs a makeover.
Me too!
I personally think the little boy who played Gage was the best actor in the whole movie.
from a writing perspective stephen king nailed pascow, its so sweet the whole concept of a ghost essentially swearing an oath because you treated them with care and respect in their final moments the selflessness of using that spiritually prophetic gift at the point of death for *someone else* seeing that they're in danger and the trope of them appearing scary but wanting to help like in the sixth sense is a very rare exploration of themes and how it echoes throughout the family.
"Poor Ellie."
The greatest tragedy is that Ellie's going to end up with her rotten grandparents until she can hopefully get away from them.
His reasoning: Dogs love you unconditionally, so you know when they've been possessed by a demon. Cats, well... How could you tell?
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff
As a cat's servant I can tell you.... a cat is NEVER possessed, it's just being a cat. 😂
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Fred Gwynn is a legend. Rest in peace man. To me he's so memorable as the Judge in My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Judd was not only in my cousin vinnie, he was also the original Herman munster, on the show the munsters
Misery is a great Stephen King movie.
The craziest thing about this one of all of Stephen King's books is this is based on King's actual life. His daughter's cat passed away from a cat hitting it and his son almost actually got hit by a car too. Crazy this his story of the worse case scenario with his own kid.
"Are the cat and the little boy working together?" I smell a new sitcom!
The Adventures of Cat & Kid! Coming this fall to Squickalodeon!
The Grudge had a ghost cat and a kid teaming up for kills.
Another recommendation is 1994 The Stand, a plague wipes out 99.4 percent of the world's population and what happens to the survivors, also Storm of the Century may be one of the best of the miniseries
Both are solid recommendations, bud
Those are great recommendations. I would also suggest Salem's Lot miniseries from 1979. Spooky as hell.
@@erikholmes644 I have high hopes for the remake if they ever release it
"Give me what I want, and I'll go away."
The wife played by denise crosby, is also famous for her roles on star trek the next generation. She played security chief Tasha yar, and years daughter sela.
Yeah... she quit TNG because the writer's just didn't know what to do with the character... too many episodes where she stood around doing NOTHING, and they didn't have any kind of planned arc for her. So she left the show to pursue other acting opportunities (and this was the first).
She is also the granddaughter of famous singer, actor and comedian BING CROSBY
She also was in The Walking Dead for the Terminus storyline.
"Firestarter" and " Christine"" are also great stephen King movies ,,, the practical effects in "Christine" are amazing ....
This was filmed around the University of Maine when I was at school there. The scene of Pascow being brought to the infirmary was filmed right down the hill from my dorm I sat in my window for hours and watched them set up and film. Also, the burial scene with Stephen King was filmed right down the road from campus,in an actual cemetery, and me and friends snuck through the woods and are hiding in the trees behind King, about a hundred yards away, while that was being filmed. Also, separate from this movie, there's are great films in between The Shining and this one. Fire starter, Cujo and The Dead Zone should definitely be on your list. (also both your faces when the movie ends and the music starts...Priceless lol
Dead Zone definitely.
Stephen King got ideas for this from his own experience, I read there was a time when one of his own kids almost ran on to the road, Stephen King managed to catch him in time, but the experience scared him enough the idea of what if popped in his head
That Ramone's theme song from the credits remains on my playlist to this day. I was 5 when i watched this movie and wow, it scared me so much, that little kid looks so evil poor thing hahaha!
I saw this when it came out, opening night. The whole theater collectively groaned at this guy's amazing ability to just not get it. Still a great ending though. :)
This is my favorite type of horror. The type of horror where the supernatural element is introduced to serve the emotional core of the story. An emotional core that is universally relatable: dealing with the trauma and grief of losing a loved one, and the despicable things a human would do in the misguided hope of getting that happiness back.
Slasher horror, body horror and other types in the horror genre are all cool and serve their own purpose for entertainment. But I love a horror with a good story and meaningful themes behind it.
25:36 - ... losing a child ...
in the "six feet under" series, IIRC, there was a dialogue, that when someone loses his spouse - he/she is widowed, when someone loses his parents - he/she is orphan, but it is so awful to lose a child, that there isn't even a word for that.
Your crying is why I love this movie/book more and more. It's like a Greek tragedy, it's so human and terrible and terrifying.
One fact it´s that the old man (Judd) was played by Fred Gwynne, who also played Hermann Munster in the TV Show: "The Munsters" (Gwynne height was 6´6´´) . There is also a cameo of Stephen King, the autor of the book (the priest).
The remake follows the same plot points, but with a few twists. There is also a prequel that follows Judd when he was younger and the story behind the burial ground.
The movie never flat out states that it's basically a wendigo that's doing all this. It's more obvious in the book from what I remember.
Yea, I think the book outright says so. But, it's been 20+ years since I've read it so I can't recall with certainty.
Saw this at an early age and it's stuck with me ever since. Not only my favourite Stephen King adaptation but quite possibly my favourite horror film period. I really like watching people go into this one blind especially knowing the absolute emotional rollercoaster to come
On a Stephen King binge? Here's some really good movies based on Stephen King books.
- The Shining 1980
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Stand By Me
- The Green Mile
- Misery
- It part 1 2017 & Part 2 2019
- Doctor Sleep
- The Mist
- Christine
Cujo....
When your neighbor tells you 'sometimes dead is better' and a dead patient of yours tells you 'the ground is sour', then those words should sink into your mind and soul as fair and helpful warnings.
But having placed your daughter's cat and your recently deceased toddler son into the soil of a sacred Native American burial ground, though....
That particular part of The Lord's Prayer, 'lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil' is COMPLETELY out of the window!!!!!
I saw this as a 10 year old, after reading the book the same year, and after all the other horror I was watching this one really disturbed me. I grew up Catholic so the thought of someone coming back from the dead wrong was the most frightening thing to me back then.
Literally the exact same here. Raised a catholic in Ireland, I saw this when I was 10.
The book also is much more disturbing.
That's weirdly ironic because Catholicism and Christianity in general is based on a dead guy coming back to life, that's the whole main point of it.
@danielpeckham5520 Dead guy, not dead people. And that one dead guy was literally the creator of the universe's son in human form. The catholics and Christians I grew up with got pretty disturbed over the prospect of ghosts, let alone someone coming back from the dead.
This film will always have a special place in my heart. It was the film we played showed on Halloween at the youth club each year.
Yeah, that included some 10 year olds. every year we looked forward to seeing how the smaller kids would react to it.
This is one of those stories even King questioned if he should write because he said it made him contemplate what if his child died before him.
Good observation about him having to really commit to the burial for the long haul. The book is brilliant at conveying what a long, tedious process it is and how he goes around and around in his head trying to rationalize it the whole time. It’s really exhausting and utterly unnerving. One of the reasons it’s so hard to do a Stephen King adaptation is because his books are ultimately about psychology and internal struggles.
This movie overcomes budget and special effects limitations by setting the Creeds up as a wholesome and loveable family. First the movie makes you like them, then it destroys them. I think Judd has a New England accent, rather than a mid-Atlantic one.
"He's speaking with a transatlantic accent..." It's so funny when non-Maine natives try out that accent, but I've never heard it described like that before.
It’s similar to the accent here in Nova Scotia-love it! 😂
@@DeathBeforeComicSans Apparently it rubs off on people from elsewhere as well. I have an uncle who was born and raised in the American south, which definitely has a strong accent of its own. He moved to Maine to become a lobster fisherman in his early 20s and now you couldn't pry that Maine accent out of him!
@@williammatthews693 Love to hear it! 😍😉
The "No fair, no fair" was great. 😂
As someone who lived in Maine for several decades it is my opinion that Fred Gwynne's Maine accent is spot on. One one of the best by a none native actor on film.
Delores Claiborne is one of my favorite adaptations of King’s novels and my favorite Kathy Bates performance, thanks
Hailey / Stella should react to that film
"Sometimes dead is better."
The novel is even more great of a story of a man going insane.
Knowing that everything he does is going to make things worse, but unable to stop doing it.
Btw... Pet Sematary 2... is A LOT of fun!!
I can also recommend "The Mist" movie from 2007. The book is also spectacular, my favorite one by King.
The movie excludes the reason why Judd told him to bury the cat there even though he knew it would turn out badly.
Something to do with the Wendigo driving him to do so.
It's amazing how the truck driver makes zero attempts to avoid hitting Gage and only honks his horn.
Not sure that "amazing" is the right word... A very similar thing happened to me when I was about 5 years old; I mean, I wasn't buried in a mystical/cursed plot of land and came back from the dead, but I was run over by a truck, and the driver honked his horn, once before hitting me, and again as he was leaving. I lost a leg, and my folks couldn't even sue the guy because he had nothing and was living in his truck.
Many years later, I learned that truckers have a lot of pressure put on them to deliver their payload(s) A.S.A.P., and it is drilled into them at the start of their careers not to slow down or stop for ANYTHING until they reach their destination(s).
"Anything" normally means bad weather, bad roads, or other such driving issues, but it is heavily implied to the drivers that it also means no stopping for food, or regular rests, and, if taken to the extreme, things, animals, or people on the road.
That's why you see/hear so many stories of truck drivers being overly tired and even asleep behind the wheel, or drunk, or having accidents when no one should be driving because of bad weather, or constantly drinking (idrinking is used as a way to fight off not only the loneliness of the long drives and the pressure of the deadlines, but it's also used to trick the stomach into not feeling so hungry, because it's filled with alcohol instead of actual food, so your body thinks it's getting the fuel it needs)... or slamming into busses and cars with kids in them, or running over pets and kids.....
Please give Star Trek a chance.
Eh, there's enough channels doing that.
The remake was fine - had some good moments, kept it fresh in various places, but if you want to stay within the realms of the Semetary, then the sequel to the original is way more fun. PS. However, the sequel/prequel/requel/whatever to the remake … yeeeah not so much. And if you plan to return to the King world in the future, The Dead Zone, Maximum Overdrive, Silver Bullet and Creepshow will make for some fun reactions.
"Remember doc, the barrier was not meant to be crossed. The ground is
SOUR!!!!!"
- Victor Pascow🧟
I read the book when it came out when I was in the 6th grade. My mom was a die-hard King book fan. She allowed me to read them after her only after she found out I had swiped "The Shining" from the drawer she had it hidden in waiting for my brother to finish it when I was 10. She figured there was no way she could keep me from them since my 8 years older than me could not finish Shining, but here the 10-year-old was sneaky reading it and was on like the final couple chapters. I actually got paddled in school when my Reading class teacher caught me reading "IT' during class instead of the stupid short story reading cards. Mom got mad about that because the class was supposed to instill the joy of reading and the ability to comprehend what was read. But seriously, can you believe being spanked with a board for reading...In Reading class?
I saw Pet Sematary when i was 15, at the local cinema in Sweden. I was so nervous going into the movie theatre because the rumour among my friends was that this movie was so scary that it made grown men cry.
I liked it, still do. And it taught me that, oh, i'm actually not particularly scared of horror movies. I've never been nervous to watch another horror movie since.
i read a stephen king book called gramma that was similar to that thing you said about her dying sister.. probably one of the greatest horrors a person can experience, is when someone familiar, or close to them, changes from someone you feel safe with, to someone you feel is a danger to you.. or when they just become someone very different.. that can be pretty creepy too.. even some place you are familiar with changing.. particularily suddenly.. heck, dont change too much yourself, or youll look in the mirror and get creeped out
I remember watching this on VHS back in 1989 when I was 5 yrs old and still Zelda scar the shit out of me.
OMG yes! You have to see My Cousin Vinny, it's a classic courtroom comedy and actually a favorite of real life lawyers.
Zelda still scares me 35yrs on.
Gage was also in Kindergarten Cop, Mercury Rising, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
'Smile' was, in fact, TERRIFYING!!!!😁
Another nice reaction guys. I was working in a video shop when this first dropped, from memory it didn't get a cinema release, in Australia at least, It was a popular horror video for hire right from the get go and I think it slowly gained cult classic stasis over the years for how effective it is. It's fondly remembered by horror enthusiast's Glad you guys caught it. It seemed to weave it's voodoo on you both, lol. looking at it again now it strikes me as shareing many themes with the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902. Hayley, the actor who played Jud is it Fred Gwen? Is probably best known as Herman Munster in the popular B&W TV comedy show "THE MUNSTERS" a Adams family rip off from back in the day. Thanks guys, see ya!
Mr Crandall is played by Fred Gwynne ""Herman Munster"" from "The Munsters" and also from "Car 54 where are you" .....
That kid you say is frickin adorable... is my cousin Miko Hughes lol (At 22 months)... I will let him know you thought so! lol
The power of the burial ground is overlooked by most people, I think once you start talking about it, it begins to pull you in and maybe causing the death of Church then Gage almost as if it’s hungry
I wouldn’t bother with the new version and Stephen King approved it himself. The changes he made baffled me and I absolutely hate it but I'm a Stephen King fanatic so I’m a little biased to the original material 😅
OH GOD THIS MOVIE HAS ONE THE MOST TERRIFYING SCENES AND IT'S NOT THE DEAD RETURNING.... IT'S THE MOTHER'S SISTER ZELDA
I love this movie. The boy playing gage appears in Kindergarten Cop and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. The Burial Ground has a power over people. It is addictive. It feeds on grief.
16:53- The Master of Horror himself,
STEPHEN KING!!!!!!🧑🏫
The cute kid is in Kindergarten Cop and has some iconic lines 😂
I was 18 when this movie was released and saw it multiple times in the theater. I had already read the book a few times. I love this movie. As dark as this movie gets, I still love it. And closing the movie with a song called Pet Sematary I thought was a unique way to end it. That song was also my first real introduction the music of The Ramones and I have been a fan ever since. My favorite Stephen King novel, not to mention my favorite book ever, is The Stand. I highly recommend the 1994 television miniseries adaptation of that book. Another classic King novel made into a film, directed by the legendary John Carpenter, is Christine. And, if you want another movie from the 80's directed by a woman, check out 1987's Near Dark; it was the very first movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow. She is one of my favorite directors. Near Dark is a vampire movie starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Tim Thomerson, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein and the late Bill Paxton.
I got excited when I saw you posted this reaction up. And then halfway through at 20:50, your reactions kind of also hit me at a spot too. I watched this once before but after I lost my younger brother recently, so this hit me differently too. And biggest props to that young actor, being so cute yet terrifying. Love the reaction to the end credits song lol, always reminds me of the classic Upbeat styles they'd do like Killer Klowns from Outer Space. And so glad getting to see your reactions to these 80s Horror genres, it's always a favorite and can't wait to see the rest of your Stephen King reactions. The remake they changed up several things so that's why it wasn't as well loved. P.s. Safest travels on your road trip!
You should definitely check out the remake of PET SEMATARY!! It makes one surprise change, and that's enough to make it really interesting. Thanks for this one. Magnificent reaction!!
The remake has a bit of a twist in the plot and the way the film is shot it's clear the viewer isn't supposed to see it coming. Unfortunately there was no way to market it without spoiling the difference. Even the poster puts it front and center. I'd recommend avoiding anything related to the remake beforehand if you choose to watch it.
Its wendigo influence on the sacred burial groundsthat was the cause of all of this. And i personally believe that louis at the end just snapped.
"Pet Cemetery" and "One Cut of The Dead" are two of the most original zombie films I've seen. PC has zero tropes, so many will argue it's not a zombie film, but you have to admit, they are bringing dead people back to life right? One Cut first 45 minutes is the campiest zombie film ever, then the credits roll and you're like "It's over already" then the real film begins and blows your mind with it's meta structure.
You're right, Pet Sematary is not a zombie movie. Bringing the dead back to life is called resurrection in general.
Loved your reaction as always. You should check out society of the snow. It's a great movie and I would love to hear what you have to say about that one. If you do watch it I recommend the original language with subtitles, the acting was amazing
Saw at the theater, disturbing, heart wrenching and scary, read the book when it came out, King’s scariest in my opinion , thanks
A great Stephen King movie is Cujo from 1983
As sad as the movie is, the book is absolutely soul crushing. It was technically a very good horror novel but I'd never read it again. The grief and despair the characters suffer through is just too much. 😢💔
Check out the movies Misery(1990), Cujo(1983), Tales From The Darkside: The Movie(1990), Candyman(1992), The Lost Boys(1987), The People Under The Stairs(1991), Leprechaun(1993), Friday The 13TH(1980), and Creepshow(1982).
In the book, the burial ground is described to have a sort of hypnotic hold on people, almost like a drug. "You make up the sweetest smelling reasons to go up there" Jud says in the book, but it's just the place that wants you. Stephen King is great at making inanimate objects monsters (the burial grounds, the overlook hotel, Christine, and so on)
i saw this when i was a kid. that mom at the end walking in traumatized me...on top of the kid traumatizing me.
My 2 girl cats are named Ellie and Zelda from this movie. It's one of my favorite films ever.
I completely forgot the actress who plays Tasha Yar on Star Trek TNG was in this.
What made this book the scariest I've ever read (SK or otherwise) is the father's descent into madness, and how we share that perspective too, so by the time Gage comes back, and it's just this little dead boy's body being animated by something evil, we're there with him and have that experience with him. What makes adaptations of SK books like this poor, is they just film what happens, just the plot points, without using what cinema is capable of to accomplish what his writing does in the books. The Shining, as much as SK hates it, presumably for the changes Kubrick made from the book, is an example of a film that does this and does it really well - the atmosphere, and Jack's sanity slipping away that we experience with him. The non-horror King books like Shawshank and Stand By Me, are very successful because there isn't a horror/sanity aspect to duplicate (or fail to); they are dramas and on that level they work very well. But every single adaptation of an SK horror novel has been shitty, and King himself alas doesn't seem to detect it - maybe for him it's just the ego boost of seeing his work on TV or as a movie.
This movie here will give you what we used to call the willies
Just saw the grown Gage and his mother at Day of the Dead Con in Phoenix in June. They both look good and it was a cool experience. Movie freaked me out growing up lol
I saw this when it came out in the theaters and it scared the crap outta me! I was hearing Gage’s voice all night! It’s still creepy. I love it 😂.
Fun fact: The new Pet Sematary was a sequel to We Bought a Zoo.
"All the effects are bad" hope she means the CGI based stuff because the 80s was top tier practicals and make-up
The old neighbor is Herman from the Munsters
You think they simply told Miko to look scary? LMFAO... No.. It was more like.. They bribed him with McDonalds to get him to do a lot of the serious acting! No joke! lol
Goosh this movie is so good, and so hard. There's so many elements that are painful. It's a *very* memorable movie. *Loved* seeing your reaction! Keep on Keeping On, Ladies, and thank you SO much for doing what you do!
Some great adaptations of King's work are some of his mini-series. If you ever delve into some of those beyond the It mini-series and later movies you tw mentioned, Storm of the Century and The Outsiders were very good as was both the old and new version of the Stand. A lot of people bash the newer one but I thought people were being overly critical, though I do like the original better. The Mr Mercedes TV series which only ran three years and 30 episodes is really underrated too, and the 1st episode of the series alone is enough to truly haunt your dreams in a way only King can.
He also played Herman Munster.
The only thing I didn't like about this film was that it cut out a lot of the interaction between Ellie and Pascow. The book went into so much more depth on their connection, and showing that wouldn't have added much more runtime.
e: "This kid can shine!"
As Jud would say, "Ahyup."
Fred Gwynne was born to play Jud ❤
I would love to have neighbor like him. (Apart from all he death and murder.)
The book…. Read the book. It’s dark. Specifically the audiobook. I highly recommend it, as it’s one of King’s most memorable novels
It is the one Stephen King book I will never re-read. It was really good, but so dark.
Yesss!! Pls watch more Stephen King! My favorite is The Secret Window with Johnny Depp, its so good me and my mom always go all out and have to make corn on the cob to eat for dinner while watching lmao. If you know you know😂 Gatta watch it eventually not many people have reacted to it if any! That and maximum overdrive is also a really good one.
How did zombie Gage get his mother's corpse up in the attic to set up the surprise hanging reveal for his dad ? 😂 LOL doesn't make sense.
The book was great though 😊 👍
I read it's spelled with an S' because yes, kids wrote it.
I absolutely feel very bad for Haley and Stella, 'cuz like Ellie, she too has a little brother!!!!
Personally, I love this particular place in the family- gives me or anyone else who's the same way a feeling of being a sort of protector, like a guardian. Even BFF's feel like this as well!!!! And I know this firsthand 'cuz I have a little sister and I have friends, old and new, who I treat as family!!!!😌🙏
In short, I feel where you're coming from, ladies!!!!🥺
Please check out Repossessed! It’s a spoof of The Exorcist, and it’s surpassingly stupid, but kind of enjoyable.
Good reactions. Big hit back in its day. There's a real sadness to it. The scenes that always got to me the most was when Louis stuck the needle in Gage's neck and the boy cried. The other when he held him at the cemetery after digging him up. Still hard to watch.
Thank you for reacting to this! This is my favorite horror movie! If you want something hilariously bad, Maximum Overdrive would be another good watch AND it was directed by Stephen King
In the book the main antagonist is a spirit/god known as The Wendigo, i love this movie but its not clear why the corpses are evil or whats the influence on them.
Interesting effect, Hayley is on the right but her voice is coming from the left channel only. Broken mic I assume.
This is by far Stephan Kings darkest story he originally wrote it for himself and didn't want to publish it. I recommend the audio book read by Michael C. Hall.