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Pet Sematary (1989)

The 2019 Pet Sematary has big shoes to fill. The first take on the King story is terrifying because of its all too real depiction of grief. It poses the question: what if you could bring a loved one back from the dead? Should you? The answer to that question is, of course, no, but the father at the centre of the story finds out the hard way when he buries his toddler, Gage, in the titular cemetery. Gage comes back as a murderous, soulless monster, but he still looks like his son. That only makes the moment when he asks his father to play in his innocent voice all the more devastating and horrifying.

Image Source: Everett Collection