Review for Pet Sematary
by Dolan (old).
This review has been rated 8.5 (by 2 users).Doctor Louis Creed takes up a new position as head medic at the University of Maine. He moves his family away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago to the rolling hills and meadows of Maine.The house seemed perfect with a huge field out the back for daughter Ellie and baby Gage to grow and play in.
Then their was the old guy across the street, Jud Crandall, who Louis became to know and think of him as a father. After settling in Crandall takes the Creed family a trip to the local Pet Sematary which is located deep in the woods behind the Creed house. A weird and suspicious looking place built by children with broken hearts. Its a this point that Louis notices the dead fall on the far end of the Pet Sematary which separated these woods from the Indian woods. It occurred to Louis that this dead fall seemed to "convenient..too artful, to perfect, for the work of nature."
Then when the University season starts and Louis has his first real day at work, a dying boy is brought to him. Victor Pascow had been run down by a truck and when Louis is momentarily alone with the victim Pascow says, " In the Pet Sematry, Its not the real sematary, The soil of a man's heart is stonier". That night Pascow reapears in a dream and Louis goes sleepwalking to the Pet Sematary. In this dream Pascow warns him that over that dead fall is an evil place with the ability to resurrect.
When Halloween comes Crandall's wife has a heart attack and Loius comes to the rescue as he uses his medical expertise to help the old women. This leaves Crandall saying "Louis, I owe you one".
Thanksgiving day comes and with the family away to the Chicago visiting relatives Louis is given the news that Louis's cat has been run down on the road outside. Its now that Crandall takes Louis beyond the Pet Sematary to bury his cat
The next day the cat comes back to life but its not the cat they once knew... The real horror comes when Louis decides to play God not once but twice, when its his son who is killed out on the road. And for this there is hell to pay. Pet Sematary is a disturbing novel, the kind of subversive, realistic horror that exemplifies great horror fiction. It's the story of a man who forgets he can't play god, that despite the miracles of science and the life-support systems that can prolong life, at best, he can only postpone the inevitable for a very short time.
But what if man could return the dead to life?
Then their was the old guy across the street, Jud Crandall, who Louis became to know and think of him as a father. After settling in Crandall takes the Creed family a trip to the local Pet Sematary which is located deep in the woods behind the Creed house. A weird and suspicious looking place built by children with broken hearts. Its a this point that Louis notices the dead fall on the far end of the Pet Sematary which separated these woods from the Indian woods. It occurred to Louis that this dead fall seemed to "convenient..too artful, to perfect, for the work of nature."
Then when the University season starts and Louis has his first real day at work, a dying boy is brought to him. Victor Pascow had been run down by a truck and when Louis is momentarily alone with the victim Pascow says, " In the Pet Sematry, Its not the real sematary, The soil of a man's heart is stonier". That night Pascow reapears in a dream and Louis goes sleepwalking to the Pet Sematary. In this dream Pascow warns him that over that dead fall is an evil place with the ability to resurrect.
When Halloween comes Crandall's wife has a heart attack and Loius comes to the rescue as he uses his medical expertise to help the old women. This leaves Crandall saying "Louis, I owe you one".
Thanksgiving day comes and with the family away to the Chicago visiting relatives Louis is given the news that Louis's cat has been run down on the road outside. Its now that Crandall takes Louis beyond the Pet Sematary to bury his cat
The next day the cat comes back to life but its not the cat they once knew... The real horror comes when Louis decides to play God not once but twice, when its his son who is killed out on the road. And for this there is hell to pay. Pet Sematary is a disturbing novel, the kind of subversive, realistic horror that exemplifies great horror fiction. It's the story of a man who forgets he can't play god, that despite the miracles of science and the life-support systems that can prolong life, at best, he can only postpone the inevitable for a very short time.
But what if man could return the dead to life?
Submitted on July 16, 2003.
The Stephen King Net is created and maintained by marc hoffman. © marc hoffman, 1998, 2000. All rights reserved. Home. Feedback. Images and excerpts from Stephen King's works © Stephen King.
No comments:
Post a Comment