"Sometimes dead is better"
Jud Crandall
The town in Maine where the creed family moves.
Ludlow
The undead cat in the movie looks like it’s one bad day away from unionizing.
Church
This famous punk rock band wrote and performed the theme song "Pet Sematary" for the 1989 movie.
Ramones
Stephen Kings famous work
What is the Shining
"I bought you something, Mommy."
Gage Creed
The burial ground that brings the dead back to life.
Micmac Burial Ground
The daughter who has psychic dreams("The Shining") about the tragedy before it happens.
Ellie Creed
This 2023 prequel film explores Jud Crandall's younger life.
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
This character saw a giant pile of sticks called “the deadfall” and thought, “Let me climb it like a jungle gym.”
Louis Creed
A lovely, peaceful resting place for pets… until you read any page of the book.
Pet Sematary
This medical student warns Louis in a dream-like visitation.
Victor Pascow
In the 2019 remake, the plot changes significantly when this child dies instead of Gage.
Ellie
The inspiration of Pet Sematary.
Daughters Cat (Smucky)
This elderly neighbor says, “Don’t ever go up there,” and then immediately takes Louis up there.
Jud Crandall
Rachel flees to which city when she panics about Louis and Gage
Chicago
The sister, who suffered from spinal meningitis and whose memory haunts Rachel
Zelda
Stephen King himself cameoed as this figure in the 1989 movie.
minister or priest
Stephen King based the story on a real road where pets kept getting hit. So basically, the road wrote half the book for him.
Route 15 Maine
The final word in the novel.
Darling
Stephen King has said that this exact spot behind his rented house in Orrington, Maine inspired the Pet Sematary in the novel; after burying his daughter’s cat here (for real), he became so horrified by the story idea it gave him that he locked the manuscript away for years.
real children-built pet cemetery behind King’s farmhouse in Orrington
The local boy who was resurrected years ago and came back "wrong" serving as the warning story from Jud
Timmy Baterman
The number of different cats required to play the role of Church in the 1989 movie.
7
This work of Stephen King is referenced by Jud when talking about a buried rabid raccoon
Cujo