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Why does the old guy Jud Randall tells to bury cat there?


I dont get from the film who Jud Randall is and why it is he tells the doctor to bury the cat at the Indian cemetery. Why does she? He seems to be aware of the road and refers to it as evil. Either way, he knows something. I don't get his motives. Can anyone who has read the book explain please?

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"The ground has a hypnotic control on the people that use it."

Not so much that the burial ground had a hypnotic control as it was the entity that was lurking on said-burial ground; in the book, the Micmac burial ground was corrupted by a Wendigo, a malicious Native American spirit associated with cannibalism and insanity. Basically, whatever was buried into the soil ended up resurrected and used as a puppet or tool by the Wendigo to get what it wanted, be it more prey to consume, or, more insidiously, the potential victim's grief and sanity. In the book, the Wendigo deliberately manipulated events (and influenced people's thoughts) so that all roads would lead to the burial ground, even going so far as to causing the deaths of Church and Gage.

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I just rewatched this for the first time in years and was thinking the whole time that so many things didn't line up just right and that the book likely explained everything much more clearly. Thanks for the help.

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No prob! ;)

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What are you talking about? Jud never had a wife and Louis never saved that wife. Nor did Louis bury Randall in the burying ground. You're making stuff up that never happened in the book or in the movie.

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My 3 wife frist past life jud. Crandall. When she playd in pet semaraty. She had to had a fake name was fred qwynne.They had to chage her name in credits. So. One wont be cofused. And i was the cat. Winstin. Chruchhill. The cat in my. Frist. Past life

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Oh, you need to check out this guy's other posts on the Pet Sematary board. He's got a serious Jud Crandall fixation, and his writing doesn't get any clearer...

- Crazy. All crazy but I'm.

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Accidentally stumbling upon posts like these are why I come to IMDb time after time. lol



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I felt it could have used a few more scenes of Jud watching the little girl playing with the cat. Maybe in his front yard with him watching or playing too. That really would have driven home how much that cat meant to her. I think that would have made his suggestion make more sense.

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