PET SEMATARY
“There are places in this world... that are older than either of us. Places that a rational doctor brain like
yours will never understand.
“Nobody knows what that place is, what happens in that stony ground.
“But the soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis.”
For the record, I’ve never read the original
Stephen King novel.
My only exposure to a complete narrative of Pet Sematary was the 1989 film
adaptation directed by Mary Lambert.
At least, until now.
Now that I’ve also been exposed to the new
adaptation from Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, who broke onto the ¡Qué horror! 2015 main list with Starry Eyes. (While I would have
probably checked out a Pet Sematary
remake anyway, based on my familiarity with the 1989 film, Kölsch and Widmyer’s
presence at the director’s chair(s) sealed the deal.)
Clearly, there are marked deviations from Lambert’s
version, though given that, again, I’ve never read the novel, maybe these
deviations bring the narrative closer to the original source material. (I was
always under the impression that Lambert’s adaptation made changes to the
original text, as is par for the course with any adaptation, really.)
All I know is, with death as a major theme and
reality of Pet Sematary, it’s a
bleakly harsh vision of a parent’s perhaps vain struggle to protect a child
from the brutal truths of existence.
And another thing… what I am sure I miss from Mary Lambert’s adaptation?
The original Ramones
title track.
Sorry, Starcrawler…
“Yeah, they knew the power of that place. They felt its pull.
“They came to believe that those woods belonged to something else. That
the ground was bad.”
(Pet Sematary
OS’ courtesy of impawards.com.)
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