DaveyJoe

GoT is a bad example as they've killed multiple infants on that show, from being stabbed to fed to dogs...

Noonan

Not on screen though, right? At least, I don't recall any happening on screen. My comment was more towards the side of aging them to not show young girls being raped/having sex.

I guess the question is, which would draw more emotion from an audience; a 3yo walking away and getting killed totally off screen or an on screen death of a child that's older?

Draven

Right (which undermines the "Hollywood is too scared to kill kids" argument) but there's a reason going with a more grown-up actor is better for a dramatic series like GoT. You just aren't going to get as much out of a 13-year old as you would an adult.

Of course there are great child actors out there, but it really seems like much ado over nothing.

DaveyJoe

Well in my opinion an undead toddler, with underdeveloped communication skills, is scarier than an undead kid closer to adolescence. A younger child's death also has more impact on the parents in terms of guilt, as you have to be more vigilant with them. And that guilt and anguish is the real meat of the story.

TomOpus

None of his books have scared me like The Shining. I had read it a couple times way before the movie.

rbrown498

I agree. Of course, the proof will be in the (blood) pudding, so to speak, but I think the change could work quite nicely. I'm not a fan of the first film because reanimated Gage was so unbelievable (and then there's also the bad acting all around). The Gage doll scurrying around the house is funny to me, whereas the thought an 11-year-old flesh-and-blood actress creeping around the house makes me far more uneasy.

Besides, why does everyone want remakes to be just like the films being remade? I remember sitting in the theater, watching Tom Savini's 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, and hoping that, at some point, everyone would leave the house and strike out on foot, trying to get back to an area more populated with the living.

I'm all for filmmakers taking risks with remakes and sequels; otherwise, what's the point? As for Pet Sematary, nothing will ever replace and/or replicate the book in my memory, so I'm GLAD that the filmmakers are doing something somewhat different.

Mr. Flix

The Shining scared me pretty good (those hedge animals... egads), but no book, by any author, has scared me as much as Pet Sematary. I threw it across the room when I read the last line.

brayzie

From this thread or in general? Because I've read a lot of times how Kubrick got The Shining wrong, he ruined the story, etc. It seems like there's a substantial amount of Shining critics.

Yeah, but he also hated Kubrick's adaption of The Shining at one point. And the novella ending of The Mist is way better than the film version.

Exactly.
Yeah, it looked silly and stupid when you see a Chucky-like Gage killing the old man. But when Rachel finds him and he's dressed up, and saying "I brought something for you Mommy," that was creepy and disturbing. Plus the horror-violence is implied in that scene, which is more terrifying in my opinion.

Same here.
Although this trailer gives a lot away, I'm more interested in seeing it now.
I saw the original and enjoyed it, so I'm glad the new one will be doing something a little different.

TomOpus

In general. It would've been a great film if the book never existed. Except for how Wendy was portrayed.

Rival11

I just finished reading Pet Sematary for the first time literally last night. I think it's King's most well written book - if someone never read before, this is the book I would tell them to start with, it's such a smooth read IMO - not his scariest but definitely has to be is darkest and most disturbing. There was some shit in this book that really bummed me out like the war veteran upon being resurrected, would just mope around town letting out everybody's darkest secrets and the torment his Father faced when trying to "make him dead again".

Page 500 of the most recent paperback edition where Gage and Jud come face to face - that was some disturbing shit King wrote and I couldn't believe what I was reading - you're not going to see that in any Pet Sematary film.....ever.

Also

But I no longer have high hopes for the film after he second trailer - it once again looks like they're going to take the main horror element and turn it into camp.

The last line of the book was amazing as well - perfect ending (especially if you read it how King describes it).

We'll see, the kids walking around with masks is goofy and I think there will be a lot of extra added fluff in this flick because the book while it can be classified as horror, was mainly more of disturbing drama piece.

Rival11

Pet Sematary may be the better written book but The Shining is definitely the better horror story between the two.

Rival11

Perfectly said, before reading the book I said "No way is the book better than the film" after reading the book I was so pissed at how much they left out of the film. Kubrick's ego got in the way, King even sent him revised screenplays that he never read - Kubrick also said that King wasn't a very good writer.

And, yes - they made Wendy lame in the film.

Abob Teff

brayzie

I must read The Shining then if you guys are saying the movie is great, but the book is still better. And yeah, I didn't like Shelley Duvall either. In fact, both her and Nicholson look crazy before even getting to the hotel.
Pet Sematary is also on my buy-list.

The Bus

You mean like in A Quiet Place?

Why So Blu?

They played the new trailer in front of Happy Death Day 2U. Well, they pretty much give it all away, so be warned.

dex14

Yea, the first trailer was really effective. The second just shows too much and ruins it.

Rival11

If the then not everything is ruined.......yet.

dex14

dex14

TomOpus

I hope the graphic nudity isn't Lithgow.

Tom Banjo

Dr. DVD

Finished reading the book yesterday. I have never seen the 1989 movie all the way through and doubt I will as what I saw was disturbing. Not due to the content, but the mostly god awful acting. I will be giving this a chance, and I read the book already aware of the changes they would make. While I won't deny it was scary, and probably scared me more than anything else written by King (going to try Shining next) , I've read scarier stuff by Lovecraft and Barker.

That said, I am okay with the changes they are making.

I've also read that Jete Laurence gives a performance on the level of Linda Blair in the original Exorcist, so that also has my interest.

Abob Teff

Dr. DVD

Any updates on this aside from "it's getting good reviews on the screening circuits"?