It seems like adaptations of Stephen King's work are the thing of today as for the last 2 years more than a dozen of his books have been announced or have already been adapted to the big and the small screen [we've already seen IT(2017), Gerald's Game (2017), 1922 (2017), The Dark Tower (2017), Castle Rock (2018-), Mr. Mercedes(2017-), The Mist (2017-) and the following have been announced or are in production: IT:Chapter 2 (2019), The Reach(2019), Doctor Sleep(the sequel to The Shining), The Tommyknockers, The Talisman, The Stand(my personal favourite novel of his), Cujo, Lisey's Story and many many more]. One cannot deny that King has written a lot of things.
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However, today we are going to focus on a new trailer that came out and it presents the adaptation of one of Stephen King's most terrifying novels (and this is not an overstatement): Pet Sematary. I've recently read this particular book without knowing anything about the plot besides the misspelled title and let me tell you that this novel had me crying, and then sighing with relief, and then bawling my eyes out again; to say that it is an emotional roller-coaster is an understatement. The truth is that King warns the reader in the introduction, saying that Pet Sematary was where he thought he went too far and only after his wife's suggestion did he send it to a publisher. Whether that is because of the personal feeling this book emits or because of its extremely goth story that actually takes you to places that you wouldn't really want to go and gives you dilemmas that you wouldn't really like to face, what matters is that Pet Sematary is haunting; three months after I've read it, I still think about it from time to time.
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So, this daunting effort to adapt such an inspiring novel to the big screen has fallen on Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer(Starry Eyes(2014)) [we shouldn't forget that the novel had also been adapted in 1989 by Mary Lambert with a script written by Stephen King himself]. The story (without any spoilers) is quite simple. A family of four moves to a new neighbourhood as the father Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) has got a new job as a doctor at a university. There he meets his elderly neighbour Jud Crandall (John Lithgow) and they immediately become friends. Soon, Jud enlightens the family about a pet cemetery that there is in their proximity. The cemetery is taken care of by the kids, as Jud tells them, and they shouldn't worry about it. When things start not going well, though, Louis asks for Jud's help and this unravels a strange chain reaction that has unfathomable consequences.
So that's it really. That's all you need to know. Pet Sematary is creepy and at times wrong as its title, but if the directors manage to translate the feeling of the book to the screen, you are all in for a very interesting ride.
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