Pet Cemetery

Pet Sematary

Louis Creed is a doctor who moves his family to Ludlow, Maine from

Chicago because of a job he accepted as an MD at some University. His family

(Rachel, his wife, Ellie, his daughter, and Gage, his baby son) are happy about

moving, thought they soon will come to have reservations. Both children are hurt

on the first day of the move.

Louis makes friends with an old man across the road named Jud Crandall,

who promises to show them where the path behind their house leads. It is with

these three seemingly innocuous events that the spiral in toward darkness begins.

The path behind the house ends up in a place known to the locals as the Pet

cemetary. It is a graveyard for children's pets, most lost to the Interstate Road

which seperates the Crandall's and the Creeds' homes. The gravestones are set in a

spiraling pattern.

Ellie has questions about death terrified that her cat Church will have to go

to the Pet cemetary. Louis answers her honestly and later Rachel and him have an

argument. She was Scared by the cemetary, and was uncomfortable with the idea

of deth in general because at the age of eight Rachel witnessed her sister Zelda

die of spinal Problems, an incident which scarred her for life. It only gets grimmer

from here.

Louis's first day as a university MD is a horror. A guy named Victor

Pascow is run over by a car. Before he dies he gives Creed an message warning

him about the Pet cemetary and the grounds beyond.

During Thanksgiving vacation, while Louis's family is away, the cat Church

is killed by a truck. Jud offers to help Louis, and brings him to the Pet cemetary.

They arrive at the Micmac Indian burial grounds. Jud has Louis bury Church and

build a stone cairn over the grave. Slowly Louis realizes the cairns are arranged in

a spiral, like the markers at the Pet Sematary. Later, when Louis is home alone,

Church returns.

The burial grounds make the dead come to life, but it has greater powers as

well. It is a dark and secret place, a place which actually controlls matters of life,

death, and obsession. After Church the cat returns he smells bad and acts vicious

towards people.

When the family returns they decide to go to the park for a picnic.