tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post8255225228605485315..comments2024-03-06T11:11:48.095-08:00Comments on Too Much Horror Fiction: Pet Sematary by Stephen King (1983): And Jesus Said Unto Lazarus, "Hey-Ho, Let's Go"Will Erricksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-23239425394087636972021-12-20T16:47:28.509-08:002021-12-20T16:47:28.509-08:00That is very interesting. I wish there was access ...That is very interesting. I wish there was access to a screenplay of that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18071355590024646502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-14723774770410038482021-09-21T11:07:30.380-07:002021-09-21T11:07:30.380-07:00DannX68 - Mary Lambert’s initial pitch for the seq...DannX68 - Mary Lambert’s initial pitch for the sequel film was a story of Ellie, several years older, living in Chicago. The studio shot it down, because they thought a teenage girl wouldn’t sell enough tickets. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01091434417658642575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-58744941939020268352018-10-10T10:46:24.069-07:002018-10-10T10:46:24.069-07:00I always wondered what happened to Ellie :/ King s...I always wondered what happened to Ellie :/ King should have written a sequel where she comes back to find out what really happened... though he should have done it ages ago, because Doctor Sleep was not good.DannX68https://www.blogger.com/profile/02958102593364566996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-72712191836078238222018-03-09T08:45:15.618-08:002018-03-09T08:45:15.618-08:00hi, my favourite King novel and just with The Cere...hi, my favourite King novel and just with The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein my favourite book ever in any genre. It's strange for me that only one commenter have spoke about the most scariest and dramatic scene in the book and the film, the relationship and tragedy between Rachel and his ill daughter Zelda, with that Oz the great and terrible as a metaphor of death<br /><br />I'm rereading franciscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16141925304481130360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-25240285854245553662017-09-23T06:31:26.150-07:002017-09-23T06:31:26.150-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15179238505785143936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-22275433375640284502017-09-23T06:30:35.105-07:002017-09-23T06:30:35.105-07:00I agree with your post and many of these other com...I agree with your post and many of these other comments on the scariest/most harrowing scenes in the story, but I think the topper for me, the most heart-wrenching and terrifying bit in the whole story, which occupies my mind to this day, years after I first read this book... that would have to be when Louis fatally injects Gage with the morphine. He stumbles away from Louis, shocked and in pain,Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15179238505785143936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-88720047736922893572016-09-19T16:14:56.351-07:002016-09-19T16:14:56.351-07:00It's weird, but this one has never scared me. ...It's weird, but this one has never scared me. It was heart-breakingly sad to me, instead. I felt so bad for Louis, torn and tantalized by something that could give him almost what he wanted, but the difference between his son and the thing that comes back is so utterly vast that I don't think there's anything that could happen to him at that point that would be worse than the knowing John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-57453359236732284822015-12-15T20:45:41.890-08:002015-12-15T20:45:41.890-08:00Yes, one of my favourite King novels. Haven't ...Yes, one of my favourite King novels. Haven't read it since becoming a father, though.<br /> I'm going through a bit of a King 'phase' at the moment, for the first time since the mid 90's, so will get to it again in the near future. <br />The NEL cover above is the one I remember.Lincolnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305014002247084812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-18738812940684367652012-11-12T18:40:36.080-08:002012-11-12T18:40:36.080-08:00This is the book that not only made me a Stephen K...This is the book that not only made me a Stephen King fan, but which made me a grown-up reader.<br /><br />Thanks for the photo of movie-Gage holding the book. That garish old cover, with the ferocious cat on the front, still sits in a place of honour on my shelves.Bob/Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07830145891314387373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-20234746634297895852012-05-24T15:21:50.722-07:002012-05-24T15:21:50.722-07:00Excellent moments all, Hooligan! I could do post a...Excellent moments all, Hooligan! I could do post after post on PET SEMATARY...Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-48163435638371166742012-05-24T12:44:55.145-07:002012-05-24T12:44:55.145-07:00Oh, and we all forgot about good old Victor Pascow...Oh, and we all forgot about good old Victor Pascow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07357816407480174098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-25608742409136758892012-05-24T12:42:51.650-07:002012-05-24T12:42:51.650-07:00An excellent post - as usual - but for me and my t...An excellent post - as usual - but for me and my two cents I'm going to point out a few moments in the book and, to a lesser extent, the film that continue to stick in the back of my mind and continue to give me the willies.<br /><br />The first is when Jud and Louis make the first trek beyond the deadfall. Growing up in the woods of New England I learned an early fear of the woods at night.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07357816407480174098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-26193501566947075492011-09-28T16:40:00.382-07:002011-09-28T16:40:00.382-07:00Dreadful, and real. The scenes describing what a p...Dreadful, and real. The scenes describing what a parent goes through during the death of a beloved toddler, and the mental hell and anguish are captured perfectly. The Timmy Baterman story is scarier than 10 modern zombie flicks. IF this is re-made, a master director needs to do it, maybe King himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-38859916113150673982011-04-09T11:38:50.252-07:002011-04-09T11:38:50.252-07:00Again Will ,we are on the same page! I always beli...Again Will ,we are on the same page! I always believed this to be King's scariest, and saddest,novel.And my favorite -after The Shining.Read when it came out it did a number on me...I remember the movie as being impressive mostly for the performance of the little boy-creepy and cute and the same time is a weird sorta frisson.highwaykneeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00458606266831050852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-10683154675270054772010-11-20T06:07:24.835-08:002010-11-20T06:07:24.835-08:00I want to read that.I want to read that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-59062828277144815562010-11-17T12:30:54.787-08:002010-11-17T12:30:54.787-08:00I did see the movie way back in '89 and maybe ...I did see the movie way back in '89 and maybe once or twice since then so I barely recall what you described. It seems like a distinction without a difference, though it loses the bit how Timmy knows all the horrible secrets about Jud and his friends. Basically I don't think King should adapt his novels into screenplays. Thanks for stopping by, Will!Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-7567854490021001642010-11-17T11:05:44.117-08:002010-11-17T11:05:44.117-08:00Yep, the Timmy Baterman story is used in the movie...Yep, the Timmy Baterman story is used in the movie. They even show him, he looks sort of like a mid-1980's George Romero zombie. No surprise there.<br /><br />However, the movie leaves out a large part of the story. It also changes how the Baterman story turns out. Since you never saw the film and probably won't anytime soon, I'll go ahead and spoil this piece of the film.<br /><br />Will Matsonhttp://www.twitter.com/cleodelarionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-85665260987472308252010-09-04T12:38:06.098-07:002010-09-04T12:38:06.098-07:00Great review of the the book. Perhaps the best Kin...Great review of the the book. Perhaps the best King novel I've read, and I've read a few.Luishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631388281199815121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-57086770911713465962010-09-02T09:21:29.472-07:002010-09-02T09:21:29.472-07:00One of these days I'm gonna read this book. Ga...One of these days I'm gonna read this book. Gargh. So many childhood years spent <i>not</i> reading and now I'm playing catchup.Rabid Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13307255127156087170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-22334097947904167612010-09-02T06:34:42.034-07:002010-09-02T06:34:42.034-07:00Thanks guys... glad to know I'm not alone in h...Thanks guys... glad to know I'm not alone in how I feel about this book.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-20861345564236831232010-09-01T13:38:32.252-07:002010-09-01T13:38:32.252-07:00In terms of horror, I'd rank it behind The Shi...In terms of horror, I'd rank it behind The Shining and Salem's Lot; but it is probably the most emotionally brutal of his books. It's no wonder he never wanted it published. Only a contract dispute with Doubleday (if memory serves) wrenched it from his hands; to our benefit.lazlo azavaarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08947137317385572671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-4530565223828208132010-09-01T06:58:11.876-07:002010-09-01T06:58:11.876-07:00After The Shining, Pet Sematary is my favorite Kin...After The Shining, Pet Sematary is my favorite King read. I've read it dozens of times and am still affected by it.<br /><br /> I have a first edition hardback (as I do with all his stuff, I'm a pathetic completist where he is concerned) that I read the year it was published (yep, I'm dating myself) and it remains, to me, one of his scariest novels. <br />I had dreams about Timmy Christine Haddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16932508146588027867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-39615655336157622882010-09-01T01:38:55.056-07:002010-09-01T01:38:55.056-07:00One of the few horror novels that really got under...One of the few horror novels that really got under my skin, even though I have read it in the Dutch translation. <br /><br />What really got me was that it made me doubt if I wouldn't make the same choice as the protagonist, even after reading the horrible results. This when I was just a dumb teenager that hated kids, because that's what dumb teenagers should do.<br /><br />I need to readAltijd verbijsterdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14114953552568100202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-9190743378499408982010-09-01T00:26:56.175-07:002010-09-01T00:26:56.175-07:00The Timmy Baterman sequence was in the movie--sort...The Timmy Baterman sequence was in the movie--sorta. It's such a bland, perfunctory rendering, shorn of most of the story's chilling incidental detail and filmed with about as much flair as a flashback inside a bad Tales from the Darkside episode, that you wouldn't recognize it if you didn't know what you were watching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-69117971614781636852010-08-31T19:03:36.756-07:002010-08-31T19:03:36.756-07:00Definitely near the top of my list! Pet Sematary w...Definitely near the top of my list! Pet Sematary was the first King book I tried to read and I was waaaay too young back then to really get what it was saying (I was like, 10 I think). But now I see it for what a great and heartbreaking, and yes, gruesome, story it is.Michele (TheGirlWhoLovesHorror)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03309044766117909683noreply@blogger.com