Pet Sematary movies have been made, including last year's Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.
Now, new art from @nothinghappenedtoday shows a mash-up of Pet Sematary with Winnie-the-Pooh. The art is presented as a series of images in a graveyard akin to the one portrayed in King's novel and its film adaptations.
To begin what the artist called "a three-act horror story," Piglet digs up a grave while Pooh lies under a bloody white sheet. Christopher Robin s the pair in the next image, wherein Pooh emerges from the ground of what is deemed Pet Sematary. In the final image, Pooh feasts on Christopher Robin's decapitated head.
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The Crossover Kind Of Works
While these images are cartoonish reimaginings and comical ways to envision the King book, they play on actual iconography from Pet Sematary. Decapitated heads play a factor in the universe, which inspired the bloodied Pooh consuming Christopher Robin in the final image of this art. The second image also appears to have Pooh emerging from his grave, indicating that he is coming back to life just like the deceased denizens of Pet Sematary do in the movies.
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A notable aspect about this Pet Sematary crossover is that it weirdly kind of works. The reason is likely because Winnie-the-Pooh itself has become a subject of mascot horror in recent years. The film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sees the classic A. A. Milne character become the cause of a horrifying, sadistic killing. Because Winnie-the-Pooh has already been imagined in this horror context, it is not quite as jarring to see Pooh in these Pet Sematary images.
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The Contrast Is Jarring
Looking at these images, I am reminded of how easy it was for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey to make these classic characters into killers. I think part of why this crossover works so well is that the characters are such jejune childhood figures that any level of horror applied to them is quite jarring. The likes of Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet are seen as innocent, so applying horror to them creates a sharp contrast and twist that is immediately compelling, such as in the case of these Pet Sematary crossover images.
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Pet Sematary
- Release Date
- April 21, 1989
- Runtime
- 103 Minutes
- Director
- Mary Lambert
Cast
Dale Midkiff
Denise Crosby-
Fred Gwynne
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Brad Greenquist
WHERE TO WATCH
Eager to start afresh, the young doctor, Louis Creed, and his family--his wife, Rachel, their daughter, Ellie, and their two-year-old toddler, Gage--move to their new home in the small rural town of Ludlow, Maine, alarmingly close to a busy highway. However, after the inadvertent death of Rachel's cherished tomcat in an awful accident, reluctantly, a desperate Louis will take his friendly neighbor's advice to bury it in an ancient Micmac graveyard: a mystical burial ground imbued with alleged reanimating powers. Now, despite the terrible results and the insistent warnings from a recently deceased, tragedy-stricken Louis has no other choice but to go back to the Indian cemetery, in high hopes that, this time, things will be different. Nevertheless, can the dead truly return from the grave?
- Writers
- Stephen King
- Main Genre
- Horror
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