That’s what cats normally do. I once loaned out ‘My most beloved cat’ to my parents for their mouse problem. I put him in their basement and the next morning there were 5 dead mice, all lined up head-to-tail. Yes, he caught them, killed them, and he lined the bodies up on the floor, for everyone to see. He was proud of killing those small animals he had hunted. Personally, I didn’t see anything at all odd in his behavior. That’s what I expected when I put him in their basement. The only surprising thing was his lining up his body-count like that, so no one could deny that he killed them. Puddin’ was a mean motherfucker, if you were a mouse. And he wanted everyone to know it.
Yeah, killing small vermin is why people started keeping cats in the first place.
Pet seminary 2 happened.
Yep, and they’re pretty vicious about it too. Ever seen a cat with their prey? They don’t go for the quick, clean kill, to put it mildly.
I’m would watch that movie. Really.
Bless me Fido, for I have sinned
Pet Reseption?
Well I have a guess where this thread was buried 9 years ago.
Very funny.
The cat in the book had never been a hunter until his reanimation. After that, he’d hunt and kill things obsessively and dismember the corpses and generally be as evil as you’d expect a cat to be. It was a serious change in that particular cat’s personality, is what I’m sayin’.
It’s hard for me to watch the first movie too because of the scene with Gauge dying, in an interview once Stephen King stated that for him personally this was his most frightening novel because back when he was a teacher I believe, his family and he resided right by a highway like that with semis passing through. He said that basically that really happened to him and he was able to stop his son before he reached the road, and that was kind of the basic premise from which the book sprang, I saved him “but what if I hadn’t been able to?”
My friend Sue and I saw the movie in Salem, Ma, when it first came out . We figured that would be the coolest place to watch it. She was completely terrified by the movie, and being the evil friend I am, I made her go with me, and walk around the Old Burial Hill cemetery in Marblehead, right after the film.
To this day, all I have to do is mention the name Gage, to freak her out.
Hi there, I just made an account here because I wanted to post in here since I JUST finished reading the book and it’s all fresh in my mind. Spoilers, obviously.
At the end, Rachel has come back, puts her hand on Louis’s shoulder, and it says, “Darling.” That’s the end of the book in the epilogue.
Louis, driven to complete insanity, justifies bringing her back because he thinks that ‘I waited too long to bury Gage (4 days), so something got inside him. That won’t happen with Rachel.’ Of course, bringing back Gage and Rachel aren’t quite them at all, they might be in there in some way, but really it’s the Wendigo, or something incredibly evil.
I doubt that Rachel has any reason to kill Louis, in the same way that Timmy Baterman never killed his insane father. I also doubt that Louis, who has gone so deep into the Sematary and his own insanity to not only bring back his cat, but also his son, and finally his own wife freshly murdered, will any longer possess the faculties to ‘finish the job’ and kill Rachel again even if she is not Rachel at all.
Victor Pascow’s warning throughout the book was consistent, that if Louis keeps going and opens up this path, he will doom his own family. His last conversation to Rachel’s father was telling him that Rachel is alive and well, and that they’ll be coming back in another day or two, despite knowing at that point she was dead. I think that these warnings didn’t only spell the doom of Gage, Rachel, and Louis, but logically it would follow that Ellie, also constantly haunted by these omens and dreams, is still connected and may even be the reanimated ‘Rachel’s’ next target. It’s scary stuff and I feel like her revival, so soon after her death and the increasing power of the Sematary, will be the worst one of all, death-wise, as Steve Masterton inexplicably feels before watching Louis depart with his wife’s body. Rachel’s family, and a lot of people not even directly involved in this might also end up as victims of the Sematary’s curse.
Anyways, I hope that clears up my predictions… it was a great book and I haven’t seen either of the movies.
I read somewhere that they’re doing a remake – it should be interesting.
This has all become very meta.
Stephen King had nothing to do with Pet Sematary Two, so whatever they did is technically not considered SK canon.
However, I can clear up the discrepency regarding whether Rachel killed Louis in the end.
She did, but King didn’t spell it out. You actually have to go back and read through Ellie Creed’s precognitive dreams and her association with Victor Pascow, which is implied as the little girl told her mother, Rachel, a guy named Paxcow in red shorts kept showing her things. King did not expand or explore Ellie (or Eileen) Creed’s dreams or her association with Pascow outside of a few scattered paragraphs that are laced throughout the end of the book.
The original book very clearly states that Ellie dreamed her father (Louis) was dead, but sitting at the table (much in the same way the book ended- sans the solitaire game). We know from the book that Ellie dreamed Rachel being killed by Zelda/Gage hours prior to the actual event.
So, in some sense the aftermath of the last scene in the book was revealed before we actually read the words. Just cleverly done. 
Louis was killed while he sat at the table, by whatever possessed the body of Rachel Creed.
As for a true aftermath, this is the one time where as far as King’s universe is concerned, what happened to Rachel remains a mystery. I have some thoughts on it, based on various parts of the novel, but it would be pure speculation on my part.
Victor is grinning, flesh rotting away.
Skeletons dance, I curse this day.
On the night when the wolves cry out,
listen close and you can hear me shout.
I don’t want to be buried in a Pet Sematary!
I don’t want to live my life again!
But you’ve at least heard the song by The Ramones?
Better to leave it dead. It’s not going to come back “right”.:eek: