In today's popular culture, there is a name that roughly equals "fear."
Stephen king.
A master of modern horror fiction, a classic movie seeder.
"The Shining", "Carrie the Witch", "Ten Days of Danger", "The Mist", "1408"...
Your nightmares, there are always one or two related to him.
If Sir asks you, which of these works is the most terrifying?
The answer may not be the same.
But for Stephen King himself.
The answer, there is and only one -
Pet Cemetery.
At one point, the manuscript was locked in a drawer by Stephen King, making it a "banned book.".
I found the manuscript too scary and creepy, so I locked it in a drawer and thought it should never be published. At least it shouldn't have been published while I was alive.
The book was revived in 1983 under pressure from publishers and was adapted into a film of the same name in 1989.
This year, it made a comeback with a different face.
Stephen King himself read it and used three adjectives:
Horror, madness, adulthood.
P.S. The content of the article is frightening, there are spoilers, and pet lovers are cautious.
Pet Graveyard
Pet Sematary
The film breathes death from the first minute.
Fires in the forest, dead silence around the fires.
Houses, cars, doors open, but lifeless.
Stickers on the windows of the car indicate that there was once a happy family living here.
But now, only the blood of dragging the corpse is left.
Sir reminds you to remember this shot.
Because only when you watch the last minute of the movie will you suddenly realize the meaning of its careful thinking.
The camera switches, the time is reversed, and the story officially begins.
Louis, an emergency department doctor, decided to move his family from the city to the countryside.
It is backed by a large forest and is picturesque.
But there is a hidden killing machine.
In front of the house is a road, often with large trucks speeding by, and many animals are killed here.
Local children built a simple cemetery in the forest to bury dead pets.
Even the name is misspelled.
"Cemetery" is written as "Sematary".
Childish names are even more bizarre.
The Louis family has five members.
In addition to him and his wife Rachel, there is also a lively and cute daughter Ellie, a young son who can't speak, Gage, and a pet cat Churchie.
Accidents soon struck.
Sure enough, this is not a pet's paradise.
Within a few days, Churchie's body was found on the side of the road, blurred with blood and flesh.
How do you tell your daughter that your pet is dead?
And how to explain to my daughter, what is death?
So they decided, and told their daughter that the cat was lost.
Led by his neighbors, Louis buried the cat's carcass in the pet cemetery.
It's scary.
Thick fog, skeletons everywhere, and indian symbols on the trees warned the living not to enter.
Together, the two buried the cat in sour soil.
Strange things happened.
Cats come back from the dead.
But the cat is no longer the docile cat.
It exuded a putrid smell, sharp eyes, fierce and bloodthirsty.
It seems that the cemetery is indeed a forbidden place.
The cat came home from there and brought back bigger trouble.
Just as Louis was struggling with how to get rid of it, the accident happened again.
Or the road in front of the door.
But unexpectedly, it became his daughter...
Once again, Louis ventured into the pet cemetery.
As he wished.
Daughter, come home.
The story of "Pets", although bizarre, is still adapted from reality.
A personal experience by Stephen King.
In the late 1970s, Stephen King was invited to work as a writer-in-residence for a year at his alma mater, the University of Maine, so the family rented a house in the country.
The same forest, the road, the cemetery, the daughter's cat was also killed by the van.
He clearly remembered his daughter's angry provocation after the loss of her beloved cat:
"Let God go find His own cat!"
It wasn't long before Stephen King's still unspoken son fell to the side of the road while a van sped by.
Okay, pass by.
A thrilling experience that triggers a series of horrific assumptions by Stephen King:
If, the daughter's pet cat can come back from the dead.
If, his own son was really hit and killed by a truck.
If......
Different experiences, personalities, and perceptions create different sources of fear.
For Stephen King.
The death of a child is the real fear that he, as a father, cannot resist.
Why does Stephen King, who is the author of the book, have a lingering feeling about "Pet"?
In the final analysis, he is too close and too far in this creation.
The new version of "Pet Graveyard" has made major changes based on the original book.
The effect is a matter of opinion.
But one thing is certain that makes fear more extreme and concrete.
For example, the dead.
In the original version, it was his brother Gage who died.
Can't talk yet, toddler (not like a parent's pet).
In the new version, the dead is the sister Ellie.
There is a preliminary understanding of the world.
Born again, she spread more than hurt and nightmares.
And questioning from hell.
Another example is the ending.
In the original version, the reborn Gage killed his mother.
Louis ruthlessly killed his son, lost his soul and buried his wife in the pet graveyard.
The wife was reborn, and the two kissed passionately.
In the confused romance, the wife secretly raised the knife.
New version, Sir no spoilers.
I can only tell you that despair and cruelty.
As stated at the beginning of the article:
It's an adult movie.
A death education for adults, blurred with blood and tears.
Sir always thought.
A successful horror film is more than just a trick to scare people.
Rather, it is about the "unimpirable" hidden in the depths of our consciousness, figuratively as something that can be pointed out.
The sharp edge in one of the films' dialogues cannot be ignored.
On the first day of living in the new house, parents had to explain to their daughter what the cemetery next to them meant.
Dad explained that pets, like people, will eventually die.
What is buried after death is a grave—
In the end, the dust returns to the dust, and the soil returns to the soil
When my mother heard this, she hurriedly continued to make up (correct) and charge (correct) the way——
What your dad meant was that though the body was buried in the ground
But the soul is still in the world, and finally ascends to heaven
Then came Dad's meaningful silence.
It can be seen that the difference between the two has a long history.
Dad was a doctor who believed in natural science, believing that when a person lives as an organism, it decomposes after death.
That's all there is to life.
Mothers, on the other hand, are more inclined to find their home in traditional religion.
They represent two views, materialism and spiritualism, respectively.
What is right and what is wrong?
If you think Stephen King will draw conclusions, that's naïve.
Don't forget, the two of them formed an accomplice in whitewashing death.
Those who believe in the eternal life of the soul cannot be relieved.
Rachel has a haunting memory.
She had an older sister who had been paralyzed in bed with a dislocated spine since she was a child, and she used the elevator to deliver food to her sister.
Once, the elevator broke down.
A loud bang.
The elevator door opened and it was a mess.
Another loud noise.
It's not just food that falls.
What's even more frightening is that she has always believed in her heart that her sister is full of hatred for her health.
Such a sense of guilt haunts you for a lifetime.
For the soul is immortal.
Rachel will always feel that there is a pair of resentful eyes, always staring at herself somewhere.
Louis, who does not believe in ghosts, does not seem to have this kind of trouble.
But only on the surface.
Let's go back to the beginning of the story.
Why did a family of four move from the city to the forest in the first place?
The wife asked the husband, and he was vague; the daughter asked the father, and he perfunctorily took it.
Answers can only be found in the details.
After moving to the countryside, Louis went to work at the local clinic.
The first patient on the first day was a nosebleed.
He said "serious" on his lips and "relaxed" on his face.
When he was working easily, he suddenly sent a student who had been seriously involved in a car accident.
His expression was not nervous or worried.
It's boredom – it's really unlucky, and I'm busy again today.
The student lost too much blood and died in ineffective rescue.
When he got home, he was distraught.
I thought there would be no emergency rescue incidents here
He thought.
Jobs in the countryside are easier, with fewer major accidents and fewer deaths.
He was running away.
And he believes that the world after death does not need to be discussed, and it is also an escape from facing the ultimate problem of life.
Reason was only his last line of defense against the spread of fear.
Until the cat dies and is resurrected, until the daughter dies.
His last line of defense was also completely destroyed.
The nothingness of death is inevitable after all.
God can't let God take away our children
In fact, Stephen King wants to say that neither materialism nor spiritualism can remove the fears deep within us.
And what horror movies can do is.
Find it.
Say it.
Release it.
If we are usually afraid of death, it is "impossible to survive."
And "Pet Graveyard" tells you that what is even more frightening is that "you can't die"
Instead of escaping, with obsessing.
It is better to treat death as a lesson.
Facing death is a subject that requires lifelong learning.
Learn to let go and say goodbye.
Learn to miss at the right time.
Learn how to start a life without you.
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