Pet Sematary alternate ending available online

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

The new adaptation PET SEMATARY comes home from Paramount on Digital next week and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD (Pre-order HERE), and Video-On-Demand next month. And today you can check out the film’s never-before-scene alternate ending. It's an EW exclusive and I can't seem for the life of me to figure out how to embed the video here, so you can go ahead and check it out in the link below.

Before that though, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer revealed this alternate ending was how they originally wanted their adaptation of Stephen King’s classic to end. Widmyer says:

We love both endings. This ending is near and dear to us; it was the scripted ending.

Kölsch adds:

It’s a sadder one, which is why we like it so much.

So why did they change the ending?

Kölsch says:

Everybody liked the original scripted ending. But both endings were tested [with preview audiences] and what came back is [the theatrical ending] was clearer to people and it was what people seemed to resonate with and it left them with fewer questions — I don’t mean questions in a good ambiguity way but questions in that people didn’t understand everything that happened.

Widmyer adds:

[The alternate ending is] the ending that really should be tested a week after you screen a film when you’ve had more time to sit and process it. The theatrical ending is the big loud slam dunk ending where it goes out on a bang. There’s an immediacy to it that’s satisfying. The [original ending] is haunting, it’s lingering, it stays with you.

Check out the alternate ending HERE.

Directed by Kolsch and Widmyer, PET SEMATARY stars Jason Clarke as Louis Creed, Amy Seimetz as Rachel Creed, Hugo and Lucas Lavoie as Gage Creed, Jeté Laurence as Ellie Creed, Obssa Ahmed as Victor Pascow, Alyssa Brooke Levine as Zelda, and John Lithgow as Jud. 

Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.

The remake has been rated R via the MPAA for "horror violence, bloody images, and some language." The new adaptation PET SEMATARY comes home from Paramount on Digital June 25, 2019, and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and Video-On-Demand July 9. Pre-order HERE.