PET SEMATARY 1989 (PARAMOUNT)

This is the original shocker from the 80's and it's still plays very well.

Mary Lambert directed this Richard Rubinstein production based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Dale Midkiff is Louis Creed, a young doctor who moves into a small town in a house by a very busy highway where the trucks roar past as high speeds.

With him are his wife Rachel (Denise Crosby), his daughter Ellie (Blaze Berdahl) his son Gage (Miko Hughes) and their cat named Church. Their neighbor across the highway is Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne).

One day Jud take the family down a path from their home which leads to a pet cematary which leaves everyone a little creeped out. One day Louis has a patient who has been his by a truck die in his operating room, and the corpse returns to life to warn him about a secret Indian burial ground just beyond the pet cematary.

While the family is gone for Thanksgiving, Church is hit and killed by a truck and Jud takes Louis to the Indian burial ground and Lou buries the cat. Within hours Church returns, only he returns as a slightly different cat with glowing eyes and a very bad temper.

When Gage is struck and killed by a truck, Louis takes his body up to the burial ground as well, and thus comes a very exciting and terrifying climax. Gage comes back as a sinister killer child who uses a scalpel to slice people up including Jud and his own mother.

The ending of the movie is a shocker and very dark and brooding with Louis not learning his lesson about the Indian burial ground, or maybe he just isn't sane anymore.

If you've never seen this film, I highly recommend this thriller, and yes it was remade, but not very well. This is the version to see, and always remember "Sometimes Dead is Better".