The Plot Twist in the New Adaption of 'Pet Sematary' Makes Sense to Me
Reading this article from EW helped me make sense of the plot twist in the new adaption of Pet Sematary , and I'm all for it. From EW: In King’s novel, the resurrected child doesn’t just physically attack the people who love and miss him — he plays savage psychological games and brutally taunts them about their fears and weaknesses. He is not, after all, really Gage Creed but a malevolent, angry spirit that the burial grounds allow to inhabit that broken little body. You can’t physically have that with Gage in a movie, Kölsch says. “There are things that we put back in that, if people didn’t read the book, they’re going to think they are things that we’ve changed [from the 1989 film],” he says. “‘Why’d they make her say these lines?’ But if you read the book, these are things that are taken right out of it that just didn’t make it into the original movie because they probably couldn’t have a 3-year-old do it.” Not only is it difficult to get a 3-year-old perfor...
