Pet Sematary book: How close is the movie to the Stephen King book? Book summary revealed
Pet Semetary is out in cinemas in the UK today to the delight of horror fans. The movie is the latest in a long line of Stephen King adaptations. Pet Semetary is said to be the scariest Stephen King movie to date.
How close is the movie to the book?
Pet Semetary pretty closely sticks to its source material.
There are, however, two major changes which die-hard Stephen King fans may take issue with.
Warning: Spoilers for Pet Semetary, the movie and book, below.
The basic plot of the movie remains very similar to the book.
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The story of Pet Sematary follows husband and wife Luis and Rachel Creed who relocate their family from Boston to rural Maine.
In the book, the Creed family relocate from Chicago.
Along with their two children, the couple moves into a house with a burial ground in the woods near their home.
Then tragedy strikes.
King’s novel has the Creed’s youngest son, hit by a car and die.
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But in the latest adaptation, it is the older sister Ellie who dies in a car accident.
Speaking to the Telegraph, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura said: “Trust me, we were nervous about this choice.”
Jason Clarke said: “You can’t play that movie with a three-year-old boy. You end up with a doll or some animated thing.
“So you’re going to get a much deeper, richer story by swapping for a seven-year-old or nine-year-old girl. The reward will come.
“People who are upset will hopefully see the benefit of it. But a lot of people didn’t have an issue.
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“Stephen King didn’t have an issue with it.”
Another difference is the ending.
After Ellie’s death, she is buried in the Pet Semetary and is resurrected as a meaner, colder version of herself.
In the movie, the resurrected Ellie goes after her mother with a knife.
Rachel attempts to save herself and her son by barricading themselves in the bathroom.
Louis returns to find Rachel trying to lower their son out of the window. He catches him and runs but Ellie breaks into the bathroom and kills her mother.
Meanwhile, Louis locks Gage in the car and returns to find a dying Rachel, but he is knocked unconscious by Ellie who then drags Rachel’s body to the woods and buries her in the Pet Sematary.
Louis wakes up and finds Ellie in the woods. They fight, and just before Louis can kill Ellie, a reanimated Rachel stabs him.
Ellie and Rachel bury Louis, and once he is resurrected they all burn the house down before returning to the car where Gage, the only one left alive, remains.
Louis motions to Gage, and he unlocks the car door before the movie cuts to black.
In the book, Louis exhumes his son Gage and buries him in the Pet Semetary leading to the resurrected Gage killing both Rachel and Jud (Ellie is in Chicago with her grandparents).
Louis kills Gage with an overdose but then proceeds to bury his wife in the Pet Sematary, thinking if he buries her quicker she will be less demonic in her resurrection.
The final scene in the novel features Louis sitting with his back to the door playing solitaire when Rachel’s reanimated corpse walks up behind him and drops a cold hand on his shoulder and says “Darling.”
The ending of the movie is slightly more eerie, which undoubtedly adds to Pet Sematary being touted as the scariest Stephen King adaptation ever.
Pet Sematary is out in UK cinemas now.
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