Pet Semetery: Full Reaction
Added 2025-10-30 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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first time watching this and i was just as shocked as you were, i didnt expect it but they really went there.
Frelle
2025-11-01 03:34:30 +0000 UTCVery excited for this reaction!!!!
Melissa Reynolds
2025-10-31 18:08:19 +0000 UTCIt was astute of you to notice that the plot of Pet Semetary is similar to the Buffy episode "Forever". Both of them were inspired by a classic 1902 short story called "The Monkey's Paw", in which grief-stricken parents wish upon a cursed mummified monkey's paw to revive their deceased son. Here's a downloadable PDF copy of the short story: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/6_The%20Monkeys%20Paw%20by%20WW%20Jacobs.pdf
Gaius Frakking Baltar
2025-10-31 15:48:11 +0000 UTCThe look of absolute shock... Yup, they went there. Very much enjoyable reaction.
Michael Labs
2025-10-31 02:10:04 +0000 UTCYou're never gonna wanna watch this again.
Morgan Williams
2025-10-31 01:42:38 +0000 UTCI didn't watch this movie for years because the book traumatised me when I read it as a kid lol - as depressing and dark as this is, the book is worse. It's fantastic, but horrible. Stephen King didn't want to publish it when he finished it because he thought it was too disturbing, and wondered if it was too much. Master of Horror, Stephen King. He put it in a drawer for years, and the only reason it was published is because he had to fulfil a contract with his publisher, so he sent them the manuscript. Obviously it was hugely successful, but King still calls it the darkest thing he's ever written, and it's up against some pretty stiff competition. The whole story was heavily inspired by King's own experiences with a near-miss and a real pet cemetery. To quote from StephenKing.com: “In early 1979, Stephen was serving as a writer-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono and living in a rented house in nearby Orrington that bordered a major truck route which frequently claimed the lives of dogs and cats. In the woods behind his house, local children had created an informal pet cemetery. One day, his daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck. Stephen was faced with the task of burying the cat in the pet cemetery and then explaining to his daughter what had happened. It was on the third day after the burial that the idea for a novel came to him. He wondered what would happen if a young family were to lose their daughter's cat to a passing truck, and the father rather than tell his daughter, were to bury the cat in a pet cemetery. And what would happen if the cat were to return the next day, alive but fundamentally different. 'I can remember crossing the road, and thinking that the cat had been killed in the road--and (I thought) what if a kid died in that road? And we had had this experience with Owen running toward the road, where I had just grabbed him and pulled him back. And the two things just came together'." I really enjoyed this reaction - it's been a few years since I watched this, and it still holds up remarkably well. Your shock when Gage was hit was palpable. I watched the 2019 remake when it came out and remember liking it fine, but it wasn't very memorable aside from the ending, which switched some things up in interesting ways. Fun little fact, the reason Ellie was having visions and bad feelings is because she has the Shining, like many characters in King's multiverse. Have you seen The Long Walk yet? It's the latest King adaptation (not counting the "It: Welcome to Derry" show airing on HBO right now - get that bag, King), and it's very powerful, I think you'd really like it. It's similarly horrible though lol
Jordan McLaren
2025-10-30 20:30:07 +0000 UTCOOF. This movie is so depressing haha
iMiller21
2025-10-30 15:02:38 +0000 UTC
