Pet Sematary

A family moves to rural Maine, near a road where trucks kill things, and a burial ground beyond the pet cemetery that gives back what you put in it, changed.

Mary Lambert directed from King's own screenplay and the film is unusually faithful to the thing that makes the book unbearable: it is about a parent who cannot accept a child's death and does the unforgivable thing, and the film does not flinch from where that goes.

Fred Gwynne is the standout as the neighbour who knows better and helps anyway, and the reason he helps is the saddest idea in it.

The Zelda flashbacks, of a sister dying of spinal meningitis, are more frightening than any of the resurrections.

It made a great deal of money and King has said it is the one that scared him to write.