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  • 5/8/2025
This documentary is a detailed look into the making of PET SEMATARY, one of the most enduring cult-horror classics of ou | dG1fcjFjbm85ZmVDRlk
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00:00I wrote a book called Pet Sematary.
00:02When I finished the book, I actually put it in a drawer
00:04because I didn't think anybody would want to read anything like that, but they did.
00:08I first read the Pet Sematary script when I was an executive at Embassy Pictures.
00:12I left Embassy in 1985 to become an executive at Paramount,
00:16and I tried to get Pet Sematary made,
00:18but the prevailing opinion in those years was that the time for Stephen King movies had come and gone.
00:23Ready, and go.
00:25He doesn't just write a scary monster in the closet story.
00:29It's always a psychological aspect to it.
00:32It was one of those films that you find with a group of friends, and you all immediately love it.
00:36It was a woman directing a horror film.
00:38It made my career as a film director. It's still my most successful film.
00:47I went in on the callback with her,
00:49and because of child labor laws at the time, I think that probably helped.
00:53Meeko Hughes was in a really important part of this film.
00:56Paramount was not happy. They wanted twins.
00:58Shoot it. Shoot it. Schedule it.
01:01I didn't find, actually, that working with the child very difficult at all.
01:05The cats were another story altogether.
01:07I've always loved Fred Gwynn. He was an amazing actor.
01:10What? He'd like to play this?
01:13It was Fred Gwynn.
01:14He's the one that sets the whole story in motion.
01:17When I learned that he had written a book based on My Pet Sematary, it was really quite mind-boggling.
01:23He can see something like that and get the beginnings of a story.
01:26I knew this fictional character, and this was real flesh and blood.
01:30All the people who died in this film you cared about.
01:32Pet Sematary is really a timeless story.
01:34The Zelda theme is my favorite. I mean, that scared it out of me.
01:38Rachel.
01:40Don't screw up a shot, Dale, because, you know, these people are going to be really angry with you if you do.
01:45They said, don't worry, we're not going to burn the other house down.
01:47They assured me that nothing would go wrong.
01:50Dale actually got a second-degree burn.
01:52It felt like the fire was right in my face.
01:55He lunges me, he bites it, pulls it off.
01:57Fred's going, oh, oh, oh.
01:59And Meeko freaked out.
02:00I really wanted to pull it off in this very claustrophobic.
02:06I think I enjoy watching Pet Sematary the most.
02:09It's the easiest to disconnect myself from it.
02:12It took another year or so before I was able to watch it from the beginning to the end.
02:15You have got to go to Midtown to see Pet Sematary.
02:18She said there was a whole crowd of kids who went, jump, bitch!
02:22It's such a specific moment in time that I hardly remember,
02:25and yet it seems to have affected a generation of people
02:29that it's just amazing to me that it can be so powerful.
02:36Well, at least something could come of it.
02:38This place.
02:40Couldn't plant nothing for corpses here anyway, I guess.
02:59騙ed by my father.
03:10Ob'.
03:12This place.
03:13Go.
03:14Go to bed inside of!
03:16And through to pet in theえて it up.
03:19Go to bed today!
03:20Let's go to bed آWe.
03:21Good morning.
03:21You should see it now.
03:22I can't receive it again here.
03:23Good morning to day one.
03:23It's willkommen.
03:24You should see again.
03:25BT will beитай Delilah.
03:25The person who joined in the research section of the National Health Command Empire.
03:26It's a real 준비 that has been studied and graduated.

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