Stephen King Pitched ‘Pet Sematary’ Alternate Ending

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[Tons of spoilers for Pet Sematary to return]

Pet Sematary ranks amongst Stephen King’s scariest novels (simply ask the Master of Horror himself), and the films aren’t precisely lighthearted child flicks, both. The unique 1989 adaptation performs it near the supply materials, with the reanimated corpse of Rachel returning to Louis, whereas the brand new model, starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow, goes off in a unique, no-less-terrifying route. Rachel is useless, Louis is useless, and Ellie is useless, leaving solely younger Gage alive. But not for lengthy, the ending implies. It’s mighty bleak, which is why King pitched an alternate ending for the movie… that went unused.

“I talked about an ending where Gage is walking up the middle of the road,” King informed Entertainment Weekly. “We hear a truck coming, and think, ‘Oh my God, he’s gonna get greased in the road. That’s how this is gonna end!’ Then at the last second, this woman pulls him out of the road and rescues him, and says, ‘Where’s your mommy and daddy?’ And that’s how you end the thing.”

This was King’s try at undoing a loss of life that made him really feel “horrified by what I had written,” however administrators Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura turned it down and went with the non-happy ending. Y’know, the one the place a household of corpses is about to homicide a child. It: Chapter 2 goes to appear like a feel-good romp in comparison with Pet Sematary.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)