Pet Sematary

Scholarship on Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary (1989) overarchingly focuses on the Stephen King novel, while the film itself is often absent from considerations of North American horror cinema of the 1980s, and from wider horror scholarship in general. This Devil's Advocate stands as a corrective, and provides a holistic analysis, in order to situate it as an important entry into the history of horror cinema.

About the author

Shellie McMurdo lectures in film and television at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on contemporary North American horror cinema. Her most recent work is Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).

Summary

This Devil's Advocate stands as a corrective, and provides a holistic analysis – textual, contextual, and industrial – of the film, in order to properly situate it as an important entry into the history of horror cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Shellie McMurdo
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781836243960
• ISBN: 978-1-83624-396-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Devil's Advocates
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet