Pet Sematary

So many trees.

It's beautiful, right?

Well, it's definitely not Boston.

No, it's not.

Mom, make him stop. It's not fair to Church.

I'm pretty sure Church is okay.

It's not actually Church that I'm worried about.

We've still got another eight hours to go.

What?

Not funny, Dad.

That is so funny.

I got you good.

Gage, did you find that funny? I thought it was funny.

What do you think?

Wow. "Wow"? That's it?

It's pretty incredible, don't you think?

I even got them to throw in a whole forest as a new backyard.

This whole place is ours?

This whole place is the new domain of Ellie-phant the Great and Terrible.

I'll tell you what. Do you want to be the first inside?

Go, go, go.

The movers were here all morning, so everything should be inside.

Good.

Son of a bitch. You okay?

Yeah, it just startled me a little bit.

You okay, Gage?

Big truck, huh? Who's a brave boy?

That was a big truck, wasn't it?

Okay. You ready, little man?

Here we go. Come on. One, two, three!

Home.

Well, he adapted quickly.

What about you? You ready for the country life, Doc?

Well, let's find out. Come on.

Mrs. Creed.

Wait, the cat's in the car!

This all happened pretty fast. You gonna miss it?

I don't think anyone really misses the graveyard shift in the ER.

I don't think that really answered my question.

Hey.

You needed this.

We needed this.

I get to spend some more time around the house

with the kids. And your stay-at-home wifey.

I didn't even think about that. Yeah?

I may have to rethink that. Oh, you will?

You stop that. Don't you do that.

Yeah

Good morning, Marcella.

Ready for the storm?

We have someone already?

Bloody nose. Room 4.

Sounds serious.

Do you hear that?

What are they doing?

Looks like some sort of procession.

What's a procession?

It's like a parade, but not for fun.

Hey, let's go back inside and watch a show.

I'm tired of unpacking boxes.

Sooner than that.

I mean, Ellie's birthday is coming up in a few months.

I don't know why you're worried, Mom. No, everything's fine.

The kids are really happy.

Yeah.

No, it's nice to slow down a little bit, you know?

Hey, Mom, can I talk to you later?

Okay, love you. Bye.

Hey, Ellie, are you hungry?

Hey. You get down from there!

The trick is

To get the stinger out real quick.

She's a big 'un.

No prize winner

But she'll do for a ribbon.

There you go.

Yeah.

Should be starting to quiet down now.

You're the doctor's little girl.

Eleanor Creed. But you can call me Ellie.

I'm Judson Crandall.

You can call me Jud.

All right. Up you get.

What is this place? Pet cemetery.

Didn't you read the sign? Yeah. They spelled it wrong.

These are all people's pets?

Well, the whole town's been using this place for generations.

I saw those kids. They were all wearing those masks.

Yeah.

A lot of folks make a kinda ritual out of it.

See this one over here? I carved this myself.

That's my dog, Biffer.

And it's true. He was a hell of a sniffer.

Ellie?

You know better than to wander off by yourself. Come here.

Mommy, this is Jud, our neighbor. I got stung by a bee.

He pulled the stinger out. It was a big 'un.

Nice to meet you, ma'am.

Nice to meet you, too. I'm Rachel, Ellie's mom.

You know, these woods

It's not really all that safe to go roaming around in 'em.

People can get lost up here.

Thank you, Jud. We should get back, okay?

Honey, you can't wander off like that.

I don't know where you are. I can't do anything

Just wash the mud off and rub some baking soda on that sting.

Jud

Come back

Dad? Yeah?

Why don't pets live as long as people?

Well

Do you remember that talk we had about metabolism?

The clock in your body? Yes.

Humans have a slow metabolism, a slow clock, so we live longer.

Whereas cats and dogs

Well, they have a fast metabolism. Which means, when it runs out

They die and go to the pet cemetery.

Yeah.

Ellie discovered a charming little landmark

in the woods today, right in our backyard.

Okay. Well, that doesn't have to be such a bad thing, does it?

A place to bury our pets and remember them.

It might seem scary, but it's not. It's perfectly natural.

Just like dying is natural.

We all die and eventually, one way or another,

we all go back into the ground.

What Daddy's trying to say

is that even though the pet's body goes in the ground,

its soul keeps living and goes to heaven.

Just like Nana Creed.

Remember how I told you she's looking down on you?

Well, we don't actually know that it works exactly like that.

What Mommy and Daddy are trying to say

is that you don't have to worry about this, sweetheart, okay?

Church and Mommy and me, we're gonna be around a long, long time.

And Gage?

Of course, sweetie. Gage is just a kid.

But what about your sister, Mommy?

Wasn't she just a kid when she died?

Rachel

Rachel.

You okay?

What was that in there?

Funny, I wanted to ask you the same thing.

Rachel, Ellie's almost nine years old.

We should be able to talk to her about this.

Ellie's a child.

And death for her is scary.

Please, Rachel, doesn't mean we should shield her from it.

And you think that's what I'm doing?

I think that all this talk about the afterlife,

about people looking down on her,

I think it's delaying getting to the heart of the matter, yes.

So, you really don't think there's anything

after we die? No heaven, no nothing?

No.

Right. We're gonna take a swab and run a test for strep.

It could be allergies,

but we just want to be sure.

Marcella, please tell me it's almost lunch.

If I have to look at another pair of swollen tonsils,

I swear to God Judy went out for sandwiches.

His head!

Victor Pascow.

It's Victor Pascow. He's a student here.

He was skating and the car just came out of nowhere!

He got dragged. Call LifeFlight to Bangor.

No time for an ambulance.

We need to get his blood type. We'll need a lot of units.

We have to stabilize him before we can transfer.

He have a medical bracelet on? I didn't see anything, no.

I'm not gonna let you die, Victor. Shit.

Type O-positive. Pulling four units.

Great. Lie back, okay? Just lie back. Lie back.

Let's hurry up with those units, okay?

Kelly, we're gonna need to fit him with a cervical collar to get him lifted.

His brain. I can see it.

Kelly. Kelly, go!

Victor, please.

Where are we with those units? He's losing a lot of blood!

No. No, no, no, Victor. No. You stay with me, Victor.

You stay with me. I'm right here, Victor. Stay right here

Come Come back to me, Victor.

Come on. Come back to me.

Come back. Come back.

God damn it.

Louis.

The barrier is not meant to be broken.

Louis?

He's gone.

Hey.

What happened?

This poor kid got hit by a car today right on the campus.

He couldn't have been more than 20 years old.

His name was Victor Pascow.

I sure wasn't expecting to see any of that up here.

Why don't you come inside?

I'll make you some dinner. You can take a shower. Okay?

I'm sorry.

He knew my name.