Story Line
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
“Sometimes, dead is better.”
Top Cast

Dale Midkiff
Louis Creed

Fred Gwynne
Jud Crandall

Denise Crosby
Rachel Creed

Brad Greenquist
Victor Pascow

Michael Lombard
Irwin Goldman

Miko Hughes
Gage Creed
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Rating
6.6/ 10
Release Date
1989-04-21
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Horror

Part of the Series
Pet Sematary Collection
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User Reviews (5)

John Chard
6.5/10
•12/29/2014And the night when the cold wind blows, No one cares, nobody knows.
The Stephen King novel from which the screenplay was adapted very nearly didn’t see the light of day. It was actually written by King based on a real place and instances during a ...

Gimly
6/10
•9/8/2018Even if it wasn't any good, Pet Sematary's sort of a must watch given how heavily it's been referenced in the film and television industries since. But it is good, so there's that too.
_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you...

CinemaSerf
6/10
•2/13/2023The "Creed" family relocate to a rural town in Maine where the father - "Louis" (Dale Midkiff) is to be a local doctor. They don't get off to a great start after the beloved cat of daughter "Ellie" (Blaze Berdahl) gets squashed by a passing vehicle a...

CertifiedHuman
4/10
•4/3/2025A completely botched adaptation. It's completely lifeless and truncated and seems like it's just missing tons of important scenes of lore and character development (which is all included in the book of course). It's odd, the film cuts Judd's wife fro...






