Stephen King’s darkest story features a grief-stricken father who will do anything to bring his child back from the dead.

On this day in horror, back in 1989, Paramount Pictures unleashed director Mary Lambert’s classic adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary with Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, and Denise Crosby. The film ...

For horror fans, the 1989 film version of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary represents a kind of platonic ideal of supernatural ‘80s horror. Like the best of King, Pet Sematary is both subtle and gonzo, ...

Stephen King's work is famously tough to adapt, which is a constant frustration for fans who love reading his new books and wish that the same magic could be brought to the big screen. There have been ...

Mary Lambert had directed mainly music videos (Janet Jackson’s “Nasty,” Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” among others) when she took the job helming “Pet Sematary” in 1989. It was her second feature film, ...

I provide a monthly didactic at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School called “FIDLER” that is centered around a feature-length film that we flip as a fictional case study of mental illness. This ...

It’s a young girl’s birthday in a small town. Family and friends have come to celebrate. What could possibly go wrong? Horrors! 'Pet Sematary' tweaks a crucial plot point Since this is a scene in the ...