Pet Sematary

As the firstborn, it was my responsibility to watch all the horror movies and take on the burden of lost sleep and extreme paranoia – or at least that’s how I interpreted my father sitting me down alone in a dark bedroom to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street … at 13 years old. Thus started my decades-long obsession with the genre. One of my earliest horror film experiences was watching the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Pet Sematary. Listen, the original funeral scene is actually a form of sleep paralysis demon. So when I sat in the fourth row at the Paramount Theatre for the SXSW premiere of the 2019 remake of this film I loved so much, I whispered in disgust, “They pussied out.” – Cy White