Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals (2019)

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Movie
German title Pet Sematary
Original title Pet Sematary
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kevin Koelsch ,
Dennis Widmyer
script Jeff Buhler ,
David Kajganich
production Lorenzo di Bonaventura ,
Mark Vahradian ,
Steven Schneider
music Christopher Young
camera Laurie Rose
cut Sarah Broshar
occupation
synchronization

Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals is an American horror film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer . It is a remake of the novel of the same name by Stephen King from 1983 and, after the film of the same name by Mary Lambert from 1989, the second adaptation of the novel.

The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in mid-March 2019 . On April 4, 2019, it was shown in German and Australian cinemas and one day later in US cinemas.

action

Church is a Maine Coon cat

For years Louis Creed worked as a doctor in a hospital emergency room . Now he is leaving the big city with his wife Rachel and their two children, eight-year-old Ellie and little Gage . The family moves into a home in quiet Ludlow , deep in Maine . Also there is the cat of the family, Church . One hectare of dense forest also belongs to the house . Rachel and Ellie watch a couple of children bring a dead dog into the woods wearing strange animal masks. Curiously, Ellie explores a pet cemetery there. The Creeds' new elderly neighbor, Jud Crandall , explains to Ellie that it is an old ritual for the local children to bury their pets here.

Although Louis is neither religious nor does he believe that something will come after death, when young Victor dies in his hands after an accident while working at his new job , he only has a vision of him in which he speaks to him. Then Louis has a dream about the forest in which Victor, in gratitude for his attempt to save his life, warns him of the dead who are supposed to wander there. When Louis wakes up, everything indicates that he really went into the forest that night, because his feet are full of earth. The incident worries him. Since the move, Rachel's childhood memories have come up again and again: After the death of her sister, who suffered from a deformed back and had to look after Rachel, the latter could not shake the feeling that the sister's ghost had remained in her house .

On Halloween , Jud finds the cat Church dead on the road. He got hit by a car. Louis and Jud agree not to tell Ellie about this, as she was very fond of her cat. They want to bury the cat's carcass in the woods at night. Jud leads him, however, beyond the pet cemetery into a foggy part of the forest through swamps and pools, up an old staircase and to a place where Louis digs a hole for Church and heaped stones on the earth. When Rachel and Louis tell their daughter the next morning that their cat ran away, Ellie contradicts them because Church is sitting in the closet in their room. However, he seems changed somehow. Jud hadn't told Louis the whole truth either: the place is an old Indian resting place that has the power to bring the dead back to life. However, only the bad part of the soul is brought back because the good part has already passed into the hereafter . This causes any revenant to become vicious and aggressive. The Indians have therefore built a deadwood wall and warned the trees to keep people away. Louis researches the Internet and learns that the cemetery and the mysterious place in the forest are in the former tribal area of Little Gods Swamp .

For Ellie's ninth birthday, the Creeds invited friends and relatives to Ludlow. While playing the blind cow , both children run into the street. At the last moment, Louis can save his son from an approaching tanker truck , but Ellie dies in the accident. When Rachel and Gage drive to their parents in Boston for a few days , Louis ignores another warning from Victor in a vision, gives Jud a sleeping pill and digs up his daughter again. She, too, is buried in the mysterious place in the forest, and Ellie returns that same night. She still remembers her accident and knows that she is actually dead. Louis does not tell Jud what happened that night.

When Ellie realizes that Jud knows what has happened, she goes to his house and stabs him with a scalpel . Because she cannot reach her husband by phone and she is concerned about the visions of Gage, Rachel and her son return to Ludlow. Hardly in the house, she is attacked by Ellie. She knocks her father out, stabs her mother and drags her dead body into the forest. Awake again, Louis hurries after them. When Ellie explains to him that they could remain a family even after her death, Louis tries to kill his daughter, but Rachel appears and pierces her husband with a grave cross.

After Louis has been brought back to life by the Indian tomb, he, Rachel, Ellie and Church return to their home together. Louis had brought the small fee to safety in the family car there. In the last scene, the resurrected approach the vehicle and the audience hears the central locking of the car being unlocked.

production

Jason Clarke , here a few weeks after filming was finished, plays the father Louis Creed in the film

On December 7, 2017, it was announced that Paramount Pictures would release a new adaptation of Stephen King's novel Cemetery of Stuffed Animals . Filming began on June 18, 2018 and ended on August 11, 2018 and took place at Mels Studios in Montreal, Canada, and in Saint-Lazare in Quebec, where landscape shots and the footage were taken in a real cemetery. The Creed's house is on a farm near Montreal that actually had a small pet cemetery behind it.

As with Pet Sematary from 1989, the title of the film is intentionally misspelled in the original, "Sematary" instead of "Cemetery". In this spelling, the description is emblazoned in large black letters in the film at the entrance to the cuddly toy cemetery, which children called this, as neighbor Jud explains to little Ellie.

Five Maine Coon cats , representing Church, were used for the shooting . For Stephen King's cuddly toy cemetery , the author used Smucky, his daughter Naomi's cat, as a model, which was run over on the street in front of her house in 1979. His two-year-old son, Owen, almost got hit by a truck if King hadn't caught him in time.

On October 10, 2018, Paramount Pictures released a trailer with the claim "Sometimes Dead is Better". The film was shown for the first time in mid-March 2019 as the closing film of the South by Southwest Film Festival . A final trailer was presented at the beginning of April 2019. On April 4, 2019, it was shown in German and Australian cinemas and one day later in US cinemas.

reception

Age rating

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 16.

Reviews

Overall, the film received mixed feedback from the critics.

Chris Evangelista von / Film writes that the directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer transformed the horror invented by Stephen King into something fresh, exciting and terrifying, and that the film is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever.

The film critic Antje Wessels writes that the cemetery of the cuddly toys is clearly in line with the times and is therefore particularly interesting for those who are not familiar with the original. Screenwriter Jeff Buhler takes over the most important cornerstones of the original, according to Rachel's visions of her dead sister and Victor Pascow, who desperately wants to prevent Louis from burying the cat and child in the cuddly toy cemetery, but this time it is the daughter who does the Truck falls victim, which makes sense, after all, you can do a lot more with a vengeful zombie girl Ellie's age than with a toddler like Gage.

Peter Debruge of Variety points out, much was taken from the previous movie, most fates of the characters, the end of the film, however, differed radically. He highlights in his review the character of the neighbor Jud Crandall, whose role in the novel was flat, but in the hands of the actor John Lithgow comes to life.

Gross profit

Friedhof der Kuscheltiere was able to reach second place in the US American and German cinema charts on the opening weekend with gross profits of around 25 million US dollars and 145,000 visitors. On the second weekend the film was able to take third place in the German cinema charts with around 110,000 moviegoers. The production cost of US $ 21 million is offset by revenue from screenings of US $ 113.1 million worldwide, of which he generated 54.7 million in North America. In Germany, the film recorded 530,740 visitors, through which it was able to generate 4.6 million euros.

Awards

Golden Trailer Awards 2019

  • Nomination for the best trailer of a horror film
  • Nomination for the best TV commercial in a horror film

Saturn Award ceremony 2019

synchronization

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book and dialogue direction by Hannes Maurer on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH, Berlin.

actor Voice actor role
Jason Clarke Tobias Kluckert Louis Creed
Jeté Laurence Sophia Bastian Ellie Creed
Hugo Lavoie Jacob Rabow Gage Creed
John Lithgow Bodo Wolf Jud Crandall
Amy Seimetz Carolina Vera Rachel Creed
Obssa Ahmed Nico Sablik Victor Pascow
Alyssa Brooke Levine Marie-Isabel Walke Zelda

literature

  • Stephen King: Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals. Translated from the English by Christel Wiemken. Unabridged edition. Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-26310-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the cuddly toy cemetery . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 188282 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Paramount Sets 2019 Release For 'Pet Sematary' & 'Instant Family'. In: Deadline. December 7, 2017, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3525954/obssa-ahmed-plays-new-victor-pascow-next-years-pet-sematary/
  4. ↑ a b cemetery of the cuddly toys: brutal horror highlight. In: Focus Online, April 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Antje Wessels: Cemetery of the soft toys. In: wessels-filmkritik.com, March 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Paramount Pictures: Pet Sematary (2019) - Official Trailer- Paramount Pictures. October 10, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Dave McNary: 'Pet Sematary' to Premiere at SXSW as Closing Night Film. In: Variety, February 6, 2019.
  8. ↑ Britt Hayes: 'Pet Sematary' Review: A Chilling Take on Stephen King That Can't Live Up to Its Source Material. In: indiewire.com, March 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ Stefan Turiak: Cemetery of the Stuffed Animals: Final trailer released. In: robots-and-dragons.de, April 1, 2019.
  10. ↑ Cemetery of the cuddly toys - Not for the faint of heart: MPAA announces age rating. In: blairwitch.de, March 21, 2019.
  11. ^ Pet Sematary. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 5, 2019. Note: The Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes shows what percentage of the registered critics gave the film a positive rating.
  12. ↑ Chris Evangelista: 'Pet Sematary' Review: Scary As Hell, and One of the Best Stephen King Adaptations Ever. In: slashfilm.com, March 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ Peter Debruge: SXSW Film Review: 'Pet Sematary'. In: Variety, March 16, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Monsieur Claude 2" greets from the top of the cinema In : quotemeter.de , accessed on April 8, 2019.
  15. ↑ North America: “Shazam” leads the field. In :quotemeter.de, accessed on April 18, 2019.
  16. ↑ Pet Semetary. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  17. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2019. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  18. ^ The 20th Annual Golden Trailer Award Winners. In: goldentrailer.com. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  19. ↑ The 45th Annual Saturn Awards - 2019 Nominations In: thesaturnawards.com, accessed on August 20, 2019.
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