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''Pet Sematary'' (sometimes referred to as ''Stephen King's Pet Sematary'') is a 1989 American horror film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. Directed by Mary Lambert and written by King, the film features Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. Andrew Hubatsek was cast for Zelda's role. Author King has a cameo as a minister. A sequel, ''Pet Sematary Two'', was released which was met with less financial and critical success. ==Plot== The Creed family – Louis, Rachel, and their children Ellie and Gage – move from Chicago to Ludlow, Maine, where they befriend elderly neighbor Jud Crandall, who takes them to an isolated pet cemetery hidden behind the Creeds' new home. While working at the University of Maine, Louis meets Victor Pascow, who is brought in with severe injuries from a car accident. He warns Louis about the pet cemetery before he dies, calling Louis by name despite the fact they have not previously met. After he dies, Pascow comes to Louis in a dream to tell him about the dangers inherent at the cemetery. Louis awakens assuming it was a dream, but notices his feet are covered in dirt, indicating he had gone to the cemetery. During Thanksgiving while the family is gone, Ellie's cat Church is run down on the highway by the house. Jud takes Louis beyond the cemetery and buries Church where he says the real burial ground is. Church comes back to life, though a shell of what he was before; he now seems more feral. Sometime later, Gage is killed by a truck along the same highway. When Louis questions Jud on whether humans have been buried in the cemetery before, Jud recounts a story of a friend named Bill who buried his son Timmy who died in World War II at the site, but he came back changed. Realizing the horror he brought to the townsfolk, Jud and some other friends tried destroying Timmy by burning him to death in the house, but Bill refused to get out without Timmy and both perished. Rachel and Ellie go on a trip while Louis remains home. Despite Jud's warnings and Pascow's attempts to stop him, Louis exhumes his son's body and buries him at the ritual site. Pascow appears to Rachel and warns her that Louis has done something terrible. She tries telephoning Louis, then Jud, informing him she is returning home. She hangs up before Jud can warn her not to return. That night, Gage returns home and steals a scalpel from his father's bag. He taunts Jud before slashing his Achilles tendon and killing him. Rachel returns home and begins having visions of her disfigured sister Zelda before she died, only to discover that she is actually seeing Gage, holding a scalpel. In shock and disbelief, Rachel reaches down to hug her son and he kills her. Waking up from his sleep, Louis notices Gage's footprints in the house and discovers that his scalpel is missing. Getting a message from Gage that he has "played" with Jud and "Mommy" and wants to play with him now, he fills two syringes with morphine and heads to Jud's house. Encountering Church, who attacks him, he kills the cat with an injection. Gage taunts him further within Jud's house and Louis discovers Rachel's corpse, falling hanged from the attic before he is attacked by his son. After a brief battle, Louis kills Gage with the morphine injection. He then lights the house on fire, leaving it to burn as he carries Rachel from the fire. Despite Pascow's continued insistence not to, Louis, now grief-stricken to the point of insanity, believes that because Rachel was not dead as long as Gage was, burying her to bring her back "will work this time". Pascow cries out in frustration and vanishes as Louis passes through him. That night, Rachel returns to the house and she and Louis kiss. Unknown to him, she takes a knife from the counter and stabs Louis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pet Sematary (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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