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Miko Hughes was Gage in Pet Sematary and he cameos in the "Funeral Derangements" music video for Ice Nine Kills where he's the truck driver that runs over Gage. These movies are in the truck with him. Another reason to love this band.
ME GIVING BAD DESCRIPTIONS: STEPHEN KING STYLE
IT: The snack that smiles back. Children.
Carrie: I'm just the average teenage girl! Periods, prom and mass murder!
Misery: What crunchy legs you have there, Paul.
The Shining: Well this vacation did not go as planned.
Children Of The Corn: I once shoved a corn cob up my ass
Thinner: Look Heidi! The diet's finally working!
Cujo: Bark bark, bitch.
Pet Sematary: Bark bark, bitch part 2.
Christine: Ah fuck. The car's on another murderous rampage.
Gerald's Game: My secret kink is being left abandoned in a cabin with my dead husband while I'm locked on the bed.
The Mist: The mist ate my baby.
I'm currently reading Pet Semetary by Stephen King and, over the course of a few days, maybe a week, I've struggled to put it down. I've got about a chapter or two past part two of the book and it's just got so, incredibly intense and emotional to the point I've had to voluntarily place it down and stop reading.
(Spoilers under cut)
The book goes under the genre of horror, but a main element is grief as the book surrounds an Indian burial ground. So far, four people and a cat have died - this is only counting the main and recurring deaths, not the deaths of random rats or birds. Not many of them have really touched me (emotionally, but Victor's death was insanely graphic and gory and Zelda's had a fair share of squeamishness) apart from the most recent death; Gage's, the youngest child of the main family.
It wasn't the first mention of the funeral that teared me up, it was the events after and how his father -Louis-, mother -Rachel- and his sister, Ellie, reacted to it. Louis seemed the best out of all three of them, ignoring the fistfight with Rachel's father. Rachel and Ellie, however, seemed gravely affected. Rachel was often in hysterics and needed tranquilizers a couple of times. And Ellie was stuck in some sort of trance, holding the same photo and not speaking for days.
Louis' mind was obviously ready messed up with what happened with the family cat and all but this was just making him teeter off the edge of going completely insane. The specific vision of Gage at Disneyland was actually fairly emotional and when he and Ellie had a talk in the bathroom about the death. And how she cried for fifteen minutes, talking about God and how she'd eat Gage's cereal, watch his shows, sit in his chair and keep that Polaroid picture with her 24/7.
I only recently started getting into horror books, I got into movies a while ago. People say movies are worse over the fact the image is planted in your mind in a way, especially for gore. But, in my opinion, books are way worse psychologically over the fact you are imagining it and can morph it into whatever you want. This could lead to even more terrifying or scary imagines that the author intended. It messes with your mind way more than movies.
So far, it's a good book and I thoroughly recommend. Honesty, I'm getting into Stephen King and I'm considering buying IT or Carrie.
But, if you are wanting to introduce someone into horror, I don't consider starting with one of Stephen's. His books are amazing but are severe and could probably put someone off horror if they started off the bat with one of his works.
I officially finished Pet Sematery and I am now reading Carrie.
PET SEMATARY (Dir: Mary Lambert, 1989).
Probably to my detriment I have never read a Stephen King novel, although I have enjoyed many movies based upon his works notably Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986), Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990), Shawskank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994) and the recent It (Andy Muschietti, 2017). So I sat down to this, my first viewing of Pet Sematary, with reasonably high expectations.
King’s novel was first published in 1983 to critical and commercial success so a movie adaptation was inevitable. The plot, which concerns the resurrection of dead pets and - whoops!- one or two humans, should have made for a creepy, maybe even darkly humorous horror. Instead we have a movie that feels cheaply made, is both schlocky and hokey and is occasionally unintentionally funny. Herman Munster himself Mr Fred Gwynne is a welcome familiar face and offers easily the best performance from an otherwise no star cast. He and the decent end-title song by a past their prime Ramones are the undoubted highlights of this sorry affair.
To be honest, I am not particularly a fan of the horror genre; gore does nothing for me but I do enjoy a creepy atmosphere. Pet Sematary has its share of gore but unfortunately little atmosphere, unless the atmosphere is that of a made for TV movie. Although critically reviled upon release the movie did spawn a sequel: the largely forgotten Pet Sematary Two (Mary Lambert, 1992). A remake was released in April 2019 and for once, perhaps, a remake is justified as it will almost certainly be an improvement on the original.
Perhaps I am being a little too harsh on a film belonging to a genre of which I am admittedly not fond. I realise this movie has its fans and if you can see something in it that I cannot then fair play to you. Ultimately I just expected more than Pet Sematary was able to deliver.
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Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
An unrelentingly dark and emotional book. Very interesting and frightening read.
It says something when the best-selling horror author ever feels a book is too unnerving.
"The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it."
- Stephen King
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