One of the scariest movie characters of all time is no doubt Zelda from Pet Sematary, the deathly ill sister of Rachel Creed who was actually played by male actor Andrew Hubatsek in the ’89 big screen adaptation. Zelda, who suffers from spinal meningitis, makes a brief but unforgettable appearance in the film, and she continues inducing nightmares to this day.
Our friend Gabe Lapeer over at Homemade Horror has captured that original version of Zelda in a brand new hand-sculpted figure, and he’s launching pre-sales in one week.
Pre-sales will run from March 13-15 on the Zelda figure, which recreates the most terrifying moment from Mary Lambert’s movie. Gabe even included Church in the sculpture.
Through Homemade Horror, Gabe Lapeer whips up all kinds of custom figures and collectibles that are usually offered up on a limited basis. Other iconic horror characters he’s given the treatment to...
Our friend Gabe Lapeer over at Homemade Horror has captured that original version of Zelda in a brand new hand-sculpted figure, and he’s launching pre-sales in one week.
Pre-sales will run from March 13-15 on the Zelda figure, which recreates the most terrifying moment from Mary Lambert’s movie. Gabe even included Church in the sculpture.
Through Homemade Horror, Gabe Lapeer whips up all kinds of custom figures and collectibles that are usually offered up on a limited basis. Other iconic horror characters he’s given the treatment to...
- 3/7/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s time for a new episode of our Revisited video series, and with this one we’re looking back at a film that been disturbing and terrifying viewers for over thirty years now. It’s the 1989 Stephen King adaptation Pet Sematary (watch it Here), and you can find out what we had to say about it by checking out the video embedded above!
Based on King’s 1983 novel, Pet Sematary was directed by Mary Lambert from a screenplay King wrote himself. The film has the following synopsis:
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to Maine, where he meets a friendly local named Jud Crandall. After the Creeds’ cat is accidentally killed, Crandall advises Louis to bury it in the ground near the old pet cemetery. The cat returns to life, its personality changed for the worse. When Louis’ son, Gage, dies tragically, Louis decides to bury the boy’s...
Based on King’s 1983 novel, Pet Sematary was directed by Mary Lambert from a screenplay King wrote himself. The film has the following synopsis:
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to Maine, where he meets a friendly local named Jud Crandall. After the Creeds’ cat is accidentally killed, Crandall advises Louis to bury it in the ground near the old pet cemetery. The cat returns to life, its personality changed for the worse. When Louis’ son, Gage, dies tragically, Louis decides to bury the boy’s...
- 11/17/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
It’s hard to forget one of the first disabled women I ever saw on the big screen. In the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, “Pet Sematary,” Zelda (Andrew Hubatsek), the deceased sister of Rachel Creed (Denise Crosby), suffers from spinal meningitis. She is seen predominately in flashbacks, and Zelda becomes a literal and metaphorical ghost who haunts Rachel throughout the film. Zelda is skeletal, her spine deformed.
To see Zelda in the film is to see a monster.
Growing up with a bone disability, Zelda utterly terrified me, because I had no other disabled women, on screens large or small or elsewhere, to compare her to. To me, I wasn’t just scared of Zelda because the movie portrayed her as a villain, I was scared because I worried that this is what disabled women ended up like. That this is what I was going to end up like.
To see Zelda in the film is to see a monster.
Growing up with a bone disability, Zelda utterly terrified me, because I had no other disabled women, on screens large or small or elsewhere, to compare her to. To me, I wasn’t just scared of Zelda because the movie portrayed her as a villain, I was scared because I worried that this is what disabled women ended up like. That this is what I was going to end up like.
- 10/12/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
[We're celebrating some of the most memorable horror and sci-fi movies of 1989 this month in Daily Dead's Class of 89 retrospective series! Check back on Daily Dead throughout the rest of August for more special features celebrating the 30th anniversaries of a wide range of horror and sci-fi films!]
Pet Sematary is a movie with numerous monsters. We have Church, the undead cat; Pascow, who, though he serves as something of a supernatural guide, is also a very unsettling apparition; Gage, after he has been resurrected; and the dark power of the burial ground itself. Each of these elements impacts the story in a different way, but they are all present and serve a purpose in the narrative. And that purpose is Death itself. Each of these emissaries is yet another warning that Death has its sights set on the Creed family and that their tragic fate was sealed the moment they entered their new home.
As frightening as this gang of undead phantoms is, though, perhaps the most memorable and frightening spectre in Mary Lambert’s film is Rachel’s long-dead sister, Zelda (Andrew Hubatsek). In one of the most terrifying scenes in the entire movie, Rachel (Denise Crosby...
Pet Sematary is a movie with numerous monsters. We have Church, the undead cat; Pascow, who, though he serves as something of a supernatural guide, is also a very unsettling apparition; Gage, after he has been resurrected; and the dark power of the burial ground itself. Each of these elements impacts the story in a different way, but they are all present and serve a purpose in the narrative. And that purpose is Death itself. Each of these emissaries is yet another warning that Death has its sights set on the Creed family and that their tragic fate was sealed the moment they entered their new home.
As frightening as this gang of undead phantoms is, though, perhaps the most memorable and frightening spectre in Mary Lambert’s film is Rachel’s long-dead sister, Zelda (Andrew Hubatsek). In one of the most terrifying scenes in the entire movie, Rachel (Denise Crosby...
- 8/21/2019
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
Spoilers for all three Pet Sematary films abound throughout this review. Read on, if you dare.
Tfh Guru Mary Lambert‘s excellent, intense and darkly funny film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary debuted on April 21st, 1989. 30 years later, it has terrified untold oodles of pet owners, who’ve no doubt pondered the lengths to which they’d go if their beloved critters were to be, say, leveled by a truck. Beyond birthing millions of nightmares, Pet Sematary has also spawned a solid sequel and a middling remake.
When he gets a cushy new gig as a doctor at the University of Maine, Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) relocates his wife Rachel, their small children Ellie (Blaze Berdahl) and Gage (Miko Hughes), and Ellie’s beloved cat Church from Chicago to the small town of Ludlow, Maine near the college. The Creed parents look forward to raising their children peacefully,...
Tfh Guru Mary Lambert‘s excellent, intense and darkly funny film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary debuted on April 21st, 1989. 30 years later, it has terrified untold oodles of pet owners, who’ve no doubt pondered the lengths to which they’d go if their beloved critters were to be, say, leveled by a truck. Beyond birthing millions of nightmares, Pet Sematary has also spawned a solid sequel and a middling remake.
When he gets a cushy new gig as a doctor at the University of Maine, Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) relocates his wife Rachel, their small children Ellie (Blaze Berdahl) and Gage (Miko Hughes), and Ellie’s beloved cat Church from Chicago to the small town of Ludlow, Maine near the college. The Creed parents look forward to raising their children peacefully,...
- 5/23/2019
- by Alex Kirschenbaum
- Trailers from Hell
Pet Sematary opens in theatres on April 5, 2019 and Paramount Pictures has released a brand new poster and trailer for the upcoming horror film.
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
The original film, directed by Mary Lambert, was super creepy and written by King, featured Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. Andrew Hubatsek was cast for Zelda’s role.
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
The original film, directed by Mary Lambert, was super creepy and written by King, featured Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. Andrew Hubatsek was cast for Zelda’s role.
- 2/7/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sometimes dead is better, but sometimes resurrecting an old horror property can yield surprisingly worthwhile results. And while we’re still a few months away from being able to judge for ourselves which of these two categories Pet Sematary falls into, the promotion so far suggests a remake with potential.
Just take this tense little TV spot, viewable above, which offers our first fleeting glimpse at the character of Zelda, played by Alyssa Brooke Levine. Seen crawling across the floor amidst the 15-second preview, Zelda is the late sister of Rachel Creed, played this time by Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color).
In the original Stephen King novel, the character suffered from spinal meningitis and died when she and Rachel were both young. For the 1988 Pet Sematary film, Zelda was played by a grown man named Andrew Hubatsek, and it was thanks in part to this unconventional casting choice that the character...
Just take this tense little TV spot, viewable above, which offers our first fleeting glimpse at the character of Zelda, played by Alyssa Brooke Levine. Seen crawling across the floor amidst the 15-second preview, Zelda is the late sister of Rachel Creed, played this time by Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color).
In the original Stephen King novel, the character suffered from spinal meningitis and died when she and Rachel were both young. For the 1988 Pet Sematary film, Zelda was played by a grown man named Andrew Hubatsek, and it was thanks in part to this unconventional casting choice that the character...
- 1/18/2019
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
"I don't want to be buried in a pet cemetery. I don't want to live my life again... Oh, no." For the first time, Unearthed and Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary is coming to Blu-ray from Synapse Films, and we have a look at the list of special features for the documentary, which include rare on-set videos and interviews... lots and lots of interviews!
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (January 26th, 2018) - In 1989, director Mary Lambert collaborated with King of Horror Stephen King to bring his best-selling book Pet Sematary to the screen. Unearthed And Untold: The Path To Pet Sematary brings the shocking true story behind the film to genre fans this March. Hitting home video for the first time ever, aficionados of this undead classic can dive behind the scenes in HD glory, with a graverobber’s bounty of putrid bonus features on the film’s Blu-ray release!
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA (January 26th, 2018) - In 1989, director Mary Lambert collaborated with King of Horror Stephen King to bring his best-selling book Pet Sematary to the screen. Unearthed And Untold: The Path To Pet Sematary brings the shocking true story behind the film to genre fans this March. Hitting home video for the first time ever, aficionados of this undead classic can dive behind the scenes in HD glory, with a graverobber’s bounty of putrid bonus features on the film’s Blu-ray release!
- 2/2/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
In late 2017, Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary was released through Video-on-demand, via Terror Films. In 2018, Terror Films has teamed up with Synapse Films to release this compelling documentary on Blu-ray. The Blu-ray release is slated for mid-March of this year. This in-depth documentary, from John Campopiano and Justin White, covers everything behind-the-scenes, on Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary (1989). From interviews with the cast to the difficulties of location scouting and building sets, it is all here. And, a preview of the film's upcoming home entertainment launch is hosted here. Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary was a five year journey for the directors. Over the course of five years, Campopiano and White collected interviews with several cast and crew. Interviews include the primary cast: Denise Crosby, Dale Midkiff, Miko Hughes, Brad Greenquist, Andrew Hubatsek, Susan Blommaert, the Berdahl twins, Michael Lombard and more. Each cast member provides a.
- 1/26/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Directors John Campopiano and Justin White initially intended to photograph the sets, shown in Stephen King's Pet Sematary. Finding enough material, they spent five years developing their documentary, titled Unearthed and Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary. The film was initially released, through Video-on-demand, in early January. Now, Unearthed and Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary will be released on home entertainment formats in late 2017. Terror Films and Synapse Films will team-up for the second launch of the film. More details on the home entertainment debut of the film are hosted here. This critic has recently seen the film. Campopiano and White focus on interviews with cast and crew, to relate the difficulties of production. Maine was not a film producing locale, until Stephen King intervened. Also, the documentary looks at the challenges of make-up. One castmate underwent 20 plus hours of make-up effects, to play Zelda (Andrew Hubatsek). This was...
- 4/21/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Though I’ve loved horror movies since as far back as I can literally remember, it’s never been because I find them all that scary. There are plenty of reasons why I love the genre more than any other, but being scared isn’t one of them. It’s the rare horror film that can really terrify me. The 1989 Stephen King adaptation, Pet Sematary, is one such film. And it’s all Zelda’s fault.
Ironically, the scariest aspect of Pet Sematary is only tangentially related to the actual plot. The 1983 novel (and subsequent film adaptation) is about a Chicago family that relocates to a small New England town and has their lives destroyed when their youngest son, Gage, is hit by a car and killed. Things are made worse when the father, Louis Creed, buries Gage in the magical cemetery nearby—an ancient Indian burial ground with the...
Ironically, the scariest aspect of Pet Sematary is only tangentially related to the actual plot. The 1983 novel (and subsequent film adaptation) is about a Chicago family that relocates to a small New England town and has their lives destroyed when their youngest son, Gage, is hit by a car and killed. Things are made worse when the father, Louis Creed, buries Gage in the magical cemetery nearby—an ancient Indian burial ground with the...
- 10/27/2015
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
With Halloween around the corner, we're counting down the days by posting five fun facts about our favorite fright flicks. Today's feature film is "Pet Sematary" (1989). 1. Stephen King came up with the idea when his daughters' cat, Smuckey, was hit and killed on the highway outside their house.2. The film was actor Miko Hughes' (above) film debut. He was only two years old during production and would later star in "Wes Craven's New Nightmare," "Kindergarten Cop" and appear on "Full House." See Miko now, at age 28, in the gallery above!3. Ellie Creed was played by two twin actress, Blaze Berdahl and Beau Berdahl. Blaze was mainly credited for the role, while Beau was credited as 'Ellie Creed II.' These days, Blaze is a voice actress. 4. Rachael's dying sister, Zelda, was actually played by a male actor named Andrew Hubatsek. Director Mary Lambert wanted something to be "off" about...
- 10/28/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Stephen King's Pet Sematary scared the living shit out of me when I was a kid. It gave me nightmares for months! I couldn't even get to sleep at times because I would imagine Zelda, one of the creepy-ass characters in the film, crouched in the shadows of the corner of my bedroom. Regardless of those terrifying memories of the movie, I still watch it every year during Halloween to remind myself of that fear. Why? Maybe because I'm a little twisted, and even though it scared me to death, I enjoyed the adrenaline rush of it. Here are thirteen fun facts that I came across for the film that I wanted to share.
King once said that this is the only novel he wrote that really scared him.The role of the terrifying character Zelda, who was Rachael's dying sister, was played by a man. The director, Mary Lambert,...
King once said that this is the only novel he wrote that really scared him.The role of the terrifying character Zelda, who was Rachael's dying sister, was played by a man. The director, Mary Lambert,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Remember a few weeks ago, when that Marie Claire columnist had this to say about overweight people: " I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room."
I have no problem with overweight people. You know what I find "aesthetically displeasing"? Severely underweight people. They give me the fucking heebies. There is no boogeyman, no supervillain, or monster scarier to me than a freakishly skinny person. How many of you still wake up on some nights in a cold sweat because of memories of Zelda in Pet Semetary?
So, as a belated fuck you to Marie Claire, I offer up...
I have no problem with overweight people. You know what I find "aesthetically displeasing"? Severely underweight people. They give me the fucking heebies. There is no boogeyman, no supervillain, or monster scarier to me than a freakishly skinny person. How many of you still wake up on some nights in a cold sweat because of memories of Zelda in Pet Semetary?
So, as a belated fuck you to Marie Claire, I offer up...
- 11/15/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
The summer may be nearly gone, but Horror Is Eternal!! Monster-Mania 15 is set to hit the tranquil town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey (just north of Haddonfield ... no lie) this Friday, August 20th, running through Sunday, August 22nd.
The summer massacre is the biggest date of the year for Monster-Mania, and this show in particular will Not disappoint! The lineup includes director John Carpenter headlining alongside a Boondock Saints reunion with Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus and David Della Rocco, a Pet Sematary reunion with Brad Greenquist, Denise Crosby, Dale Midkiff, Andrew Hubatsek and Miko Hughes And A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child reunion with Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Beatrice Boepple, Erika Anderson, Kelly Jo Minter and Joe Seely.
They've also got a tribute to our dearly departed Lost Boy Corey Haim with Brooke McCarter and G Tom Mac ("Cry Little Sister"). Need more star power? How about Barbara Steele,...
The summer massacre is the biggest date of the year for Monster-Mania, and this show in particular will Not disappoint! The lineup includes director John Carpenter headlining alongside a Boondock Saints reunion with Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus and David Della Rocco, a Pet Sematary reunion with Brad Greenquist, Denise Crosby, Dale Midkiff, Andrew Hubatsek and Miko Hughes And A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child reunion with Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Beatrice Boepple, Erika Anderson, Kelly Jo Minter and Joe Seely.
They've also got a tribute to our dearly departed Lost Boy Corey Haim with Brooke McCarter and G Tom Mac ("Cry Little Sister"). Need more star power? How about Barbara Steele,...
- 8/18/2010
- by Nomad
- DreadCentral.com
"Sometimes Dead is Better" uttered in a slightly country, twang voice that only the late, great Fred Gwynne could muster. Pet Sematary is one of those rare horror gems that is often under appreciated (and rarely talked about) by the horror community...
In our opinion this film was a great adaptation of Stephen King’s novel and why wouldn’t it? King himself wrote the screenplay. However, is the movie perfect? By no means are we claiming that, but the question we’re asking is, “does it need the remake treatment?”.
We’re not going to be that naïve and let our fondness of Pet Sematary cloud obvious improvements that are needed. We’ll be the first to admit that the rumored Paramount remake could address a few issues that resulted from the transfer of the novel to film. Most of the time when books are condensed to movies the...
In our opinion this film was a great adaptation of Stephen King’s novel and why wouldn’t it? King himself wrote the screenplay. However, is the movie perfect? By no means are we claiming that, but the question we’re asking is, “does it need the remake treatment?”.
We’re not going to be that naïve and let our fondness of Pet Sematary cloud obvious improvements that are needed. We’ll be the first to admit that the rumored Paramount remake could address a few issues that resulted from the transfer of the novel to film. Most of the time when books are condensed to movies the...
- 3/14/2010
- by admin
- Horrorbid
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