Where and when did you first see Pet Sematary?

Can't remember first viewing of movie, but can definitely remember first reading the book. I was in 8th grade. The book really, really grabbed me. Not so much it scared me, although that's part of it - it just really stuck with me in how awesome it is. That's still true today and I'm 44.

I'm a King fan. I read the book when it came out. I had always enjoyed the things he had written....
This one was the very first book that disturbed me in many ways.
I was 27 when this book came out. I had a young son at the time.... that was enough to bother me.
That wasn't entirely what upset me most about this story.....
When I was 10 and my little brother was 9 we were out on our bikes and he was hit by a car. He died that day on the way to the hospital.
His death changed each person in our family and it changed how we dealt with each other.

I read the book but it took me a number of years before I could bring myself to see the film. My son had rented it when he was in his teens. We watched it together. It certainly was true to the written story in many ways. It was actually beautifully done.

I love horror and mystery. King is still my favorite author. I have seen Pet Sematary a few times over the years... I could only bring myself to read the book once. It is my least favorite story by Stephen King.
I have many faves but this isn't one of them.

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"

I probably saw it with my sister and father at a waaaay too young age. it must have been early 90s. The movie really scared me. Everytime he rewatched it I'd just leave the room. seems like (my) parents didnt care much about age restrictions back then.

I was, like, five or six years old back around '91-'92. Happily came home and was watching after school cartoons on TV. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was a happy-go-lucky kid. I had even built a fort of the chair cushions in our living room and was sitting atop them.

My older sister, six years my senior, had brought a friend back with her from school. They soon came downstairs and infiltrated the living room, telling me they wanted to put a movie on. I of course refused as I had dibs and was enjoying the bliss that was Dennis the Menace. My sister then started waving her giant fingers in my face telling me that the movie would have blood and would be really awesome and this that. I loved blood and action movies like Terminator 2 so "Cool!" was exclaimed from my mouth and they put it on.

Yeah, I shat my pants. From the beginning of the creepy singing and shots of the Pet Sematary graves I knew something about this was off. I crossed my arms and kept watching. Then, not half an hour into the movie, my sister and her friend got bored and decided to go upstairs. I was thus left alone with this abomination of a horror movie, still sitting on top of my cushion fort, still a beautiful sunny day, my arms still crossed tightly in front of my chest and my eyes still glued to the screen unable to look away. The Zelda scene came and thus inflicted the greatest blow my childhood innocence ever received. I was so damn scared but I just couldn't stop watching. I was literally petrified in a state of horror.

The funniest thing about this was that my sister and her friend came back down literally right at the end of the film where Louis is waiting for his wife to come home. I remember my sister saying to her friend, "We should turn it off now, wouldn't want him to get too scared." (AKA "I want to watch something else and I'm impatient.") I saw the whole damn thing alone and then right at the end when there's not two minutes left she decided to turn it off 'so I wouldn't get too scared' lol. Normally I would have fought to see the ending of a movie if somebody tried to turn it off like this but I remember silently blinking a few times as the world came back into focus, pondering over the sheer overwhelming horror I had witnessed. I kinda just sat there a while, sorta numb, and idly watched whatever BS MTV videos my sister and her friend were indulging in.

But yeah. Life went on. I guess Pet Sematary was my first realisation that this world isn't necessarily all sugar coated bells and whistles. Nay, there be evils and demons here, and they can manifest themselves without knowing even on sunny beautiful days when you least suspect them. It's especially bad when that form is Zelda!

I still remember the video tape which my Pops recorded it on off of the USA channel, I first watched when I was maybe, 3 or 4 or 5 yrs old in the late-1990s, and it scared the holy hell out of me. That dark atmosphere really freaked me out. That one scene where Louis has the nightmare where he first encounters that dead guy Victor's ghost, "Come on, doc. Don't make me tell you twice", and they go down to the Pet Sematary, and Victor warns Louis not to "go on to the place where the dead walk", and we next see the blue light appearing behind the woods, along with the unearthly sounds, always freaked me the *beep* out as a kid.

It scared me so much I even refused to look at the video tape. But the one thing I did like was the Pet Sematary song by The Ramones, I still listen to that song to this day, so I got that going for me.

As a kid, it took a lot for horror movies to scare me, but this movie, along with Candyman, are the only two movies that truly scared me to my inner core.

It's definitely one of the better Stephen King films out there, because of its dark and depressing atmosphere and the theme of death.

My wife and I were newly married when we saw this back in ‘89. We’d both read the book, but still found the movie to be plenty scary. Along with the scares there’s such a deep and profound sense of loss and grief, all wrapped up in creeping dread. Pet Sematary is really a good movie, and like all good movies it stays with you for a long time.