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Pet Sematary (1989)

Pet Sematary poster
Directed by
Mary Lambert
Genre
horror film, zombie film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 2,402 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A family moves to a rural home near a strange pet cemetery. They discover the burial ground can bring dead animals back to life. The father uses it after a devastating loss with horrific consequences.

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What happens

Pet Sematary is a 1989 American supernatural horror film and the first adaptation of Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name. Directed by Mary Lambert, with King writing the screenplay, it stars Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Blaze Berdahl, Fred Gwynne and Miko Hughes as Gage Creed. The title is a child's misspelling of "pet cemetery". The film was released on April 21, 1989, and grossed $57.5 million at the box office on a budget of $11.5 million. A sequel, Pet Sematary Two, was released in 1992 and a second film adaptation was released in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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