Pet Sematary (1989 film) Quotes

Pet Sematary (1989 film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Pet Sematary stopped airing in 1970.

It features Richard P. Rubinstein as producer, Elliot Goldenthal in charge of musical score, and Peter Stein (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Pet Sematary (1989 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Pet Sematary (1989 film) is 103 minutes long. Pet Sematary (1989 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall, Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Brad Greenquist as Victor Pascow, Miko Hughes as Gage, Denise Crosby as Rachel, Andrew Hubatsek as Zelda, Michael Lombard as Irwin Goldman, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie, Susan Blommaert as Missy Dandridge, Richard Collier as Young Jud, and Stephen King as Minister.

Pet Sematary (1989 film) Quotes

Miko Hughes as Gage

• (Miko Hughes) "I'm at Jud's daddy. Will you come over and play with me? First I play with Jud. Then mommy came, and I played with mommy. We play, daddy? We had an awful good time Now, I want to play with you."
• (Dale Midkiff) "What did you do?"
• (Miko Hughes) "What did you do."

• (Miko Hughes) "Scared you, didn't I?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Gage?"
• (Miko Hughes) "Hi, daddy. now I want you play with you."
• (Dale Midkiff) "All right, Gage."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Let's play."

• (Miko Hughes) "I brought you something, mommy."
• (Denise Crosby) "Gage."
• (Miko Hughes) "I brought you something, mommy"
• (Denise Crosby) "Oh, Gage. Gage."
• (Miko Hughes) "I brought you something, mommy."

• (Miko Hughes) "Uh-Oh."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Uh-Oh."

Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall

• (Fred Gwynne) "You've done it, you stupid old man. Now, you've got to undo it."
• (Fred Gwynne) "You've done it, you stupid old man. Now, you've got to undo it."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Oh. Ain't that real nice. You pulling him in the wagon. I bet he liked that, didn't he?"
• (Blaze Berdahl) "I'm going to carry this picture Mr. Crandall until God lets Gage comes back."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Ellie -- God doesn't do things like that."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "He can if he wants to. I have to keep his things waiting for him. That's what I think."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Poor Missy. I don't know why God takes someone like her. She should still have a bunch of years in front of her and let's an old fart like me go on and on."

• (Fred Gwynne) "You going to tell Ellie?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "I'll have to mull that over for a while. Maybe when they call I'll just tell her I haven't seen the damn cat around, you know? I don't want to spoil her holiday, and Rachel's."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Maybe -- there's a better way"

• (Fred Gwynne) "How's your cat, Louis?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "It's Ellie's cat."
• (Fred Gwynne) "No. It's your cat now."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Won't be much longer now."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Just down here a little ways."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Almost there, Louis."
• (Dale Midkiff) "You keep saying that."
• (Fred Gwynne) "This time I mean it."

• (Fred Gwynne) "I told you it was a bad road Louis. It's killed a lot of pets and made a lot of kids unhappy. At least something good come of it. This place. Couldn't plant nothing but corpses here anyway, I guess."
• (Denise Crosby) "How can you call it a good thing? A graveyard for pets killed in the road, built by broken hearted children."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Well, they have to learn about death somehow. Now, don't they Mrs. Creed?"

• (Fred Gwynne) "I've climbed it a time or two before. I know all the places to step. Just follow me. Move easy. Don't look down -- and don't stop. If you stop, you'll crash through for sure. Just don't stop, and --"
• (Dale Midkiff) "And don't look down. Right."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Sometimes, dead is better."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Four or five days after Timmy's funeral --"
• (Fred Gwynne) "That Margie Washburn seen Timmy walking up the road towards Yorkie's Livery. As time went by -- lots of folks saw Timmy walking back and forth."
• (Fred Gwynne) "But it was Margie who finally came to some of us men folks and said it had to be stopped. She knew it was an abomination."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Gage? Come on out. I brought you something."

• (Fred Gwynne) "It's that damn road. It uses up lots of animals. Cats and dogs mostly."

• (Fred Gwynne) "The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. Because what you buy is what you own. And what you own -- always comes home to you."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Louis, You all right?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Yeah. I just lost my happy thoughts there for a second."

• (Fred Gwynne) "A man doesn't always know why he does things, Louis. I think I did it, 'cause your daughter ain't ready for her favorite pet to die. Maybe with more time, she'll learn what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin."

• (Fred Gwynne) "It was the Ragman who told me about the place. He was half Micmac himself. He knew how I felt about my dog Spot. Spot had got caught in barbed wire that infected. When he died, I thought I was going to die. Ragman did for me what I did for you last night. Only I wasn't alone when Spot came back. My mother was with me. You could still see the barbed wire marks on him"
• (Jud's Mother) "Jud, come and get your dog. He stinks of the ground you buried him in. Jud."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Spot, came back, alright. He wasn't quite the same dog that I knew. When he died peacefully in the night that second time, I buried him up there in the pet cemetery where as you saw, his bones still lie."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Louis, afraid you may have a spot of trouble here."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Jud? What trouble?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "Well, there's a dead cat over here at the edge of my lawn."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Oh, Jesus."
• (Fred Gwynne) "I think it might be your daughter's."

• (Fred Gwynne) "At least it don't look like he suffered."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Well, Ellie will suffer. She'll suffer plenty."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Louis -- you asked me if anyone had ever buried a person up there in the Micmac grounds. I lied to you when I said no. It's been done. What you've been thinking of has been done. He was a local boy. It was towards the end of the second world war. His name was Timmy Baterman."
• (Fred Gwynne) "He was killed on his way home from the second world war. His father Bill Baterman was so grief-struck. He was so grief struck, he buried his son up there before he ever had a chance to get to the bottom of the truth."

• (Fred Gwynne) "You're thinking thoughts best not thought of, Louis."
• (Dale Midkiff) "I thinking about going to bed."
• (Fred Gwynne) "I'm responsible for more pain in your heart than you should have tonight. For all I know, I may even be responsible for the death of your son."
• (Dale Midkiff) "What? Jud, you're talking crazy."
• (Fred Gwynne) "You are thinking of putting him up there. Don't deny the thought hadn't crossed your mind, Louis."

• (Fred Gwynne) "When you talk to them -- not one word about what we done tonight."
• (Dale Midkiff) "What did we do tonight, Jud?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "What we did, Louis, was a -- secret thing. Women are supposed to be the ones who are good at keeping secrets, but any woman who knows anything at all will tell you she's never seen into a man's heart. The soil of a man's heart, Louis, is stonier, like the soil up there in the old Micmac burial ground."

• (Fred Gwynne) "You see, Louis, what I'm getting at here, you understand?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "You're telling me that place knew Gage was going to die?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "I'm saying -- that place might have made Gage die because I introduced you to the power. I may have murdered your son, Louis."

• (Fred Gwynne) "Meantime, Doc, here's to your bones."
• (Dale Midkiff) "And your bones."

Blaze Berdahl as Ellie

• (Blaze Berdahl) "He's not God's cat. He's my cat. Let God get his own if he wants one. Not mine. Not mine."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "I don't want Church to get his nuts cut, daddy."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Good God, where did you hear that?"

• (Blaze Berdahl) "Can cats have shampoos?"
• (Denise Crosby) "Yes, but you have to take them to someone who grooms animals though, and I think it's pretty expensive."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "I don't care, I'll save my allowance to pay for it. Church smells bad."
• (Dale Midkiff) "I'll cough up the money, Ellen."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "I hate that smell."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Yes. I hate it, too."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "Daddy? God could take it back if he wanted to, couldn't he? If he really, really wanted to. Can I have faith in that?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Yes. I suppose you can."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "Yuck. Gross."
• (Miko Hughes) "Uh-Oh."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "Daddy, look, this one's a goldfishy."
• (Fred Gwynne) "That's right, Ellie. They weren't all killed by the road. Especially the ones from back in my times as a child. They get older as you go towards the middle. Harder to read."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "Is Missy in heaven, do you think?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "I don't know, honey. Different people believe in all sorts of different things. Some believe in heaven or hell, and some believe we come back as little children, and some believe we just wink out, like a candle flame when the wind blows hard"
• (Blaze Berdahl) "Do you believe that?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "No. I think we go on"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Yeah. I have faith in that."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "You believe in it."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "What's it say mommy?"
• (Denise Crosby) "It says Pet Sematary, honey. It's misspelled, but that's what it says."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "It got away from him, that dumb s***."

• (Blaze Berdahl) "Daddy, is Church alright?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Yes. I guess so. He was asleep on the porch when I left."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "Cause I had a dream about him. I had a dream he got hit by a car and you and Mr. Crandall buried him in the Pet Sematary."
• (Dale Midkiff) "That was a silly dream, wasn't it?"

Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed

• (Dale Midkiff) "I'll bite Jud. What's the bottom of the truth?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "Well, that sometimes, death is better."
• (Fred Gwynne) "The person you put up there ain't the person that comes back. It may look like that person, but it ain't that person. 'Cause -- whatever lives in the ground beyond the Pet Sematary ain't human at all."

• (Dale Midkiff) "I don't like this dream."
• (Brad Greenquist) "Who said you were dreaming?"

• (Dale Midkiff) "Hi, baby. How's everything in Chicagoland?"
• (Blaze Berdahl) "Grandma and grandpa gave me all sorts of neat things. How's Church, daddy? Does he miss me?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Well -- I guess he's just fine, Ellie. I haven't seen him this evening, but, ah --"
• (Blaze Berdahl) "Well, make sure you put him down in the cellar before you go to bed so he won't run out in the road. And, kiss him good night for me."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Yuck. Kiss your own cat."

• (Dale Midkiff) "Hey, why are you here?"
• (Brad Greenquist) "I want to help you because, Louis? Because you tried to help me."

• (Dale Midkiff) "I've tried to tell myself that I buried him alive. I'm not a vet. It was dark."
• (Fred Gwynne) "Sure, it was dark. But his head swiveled on his neck like it was full of ball bearings. When you moved him, he pulled out of the frost, Louis. Sounded like a piece of ticky tape coming off a letter. Live things don't do that. You only stop melting the frost under where you're laying when you're dead."

• (Dale Midkiff) "I'm going to bust you out, son."

• (Dale Midkiff) "How's that bellyache of yours?"
• (Susan Blommaert) "No better. No worse."
• (Dale Midkiff) "You know, I can take a look at that for you."
• (Susan Blommaert) "It'll pass. They always do."

• (Dale Midkiff) "Go on. Lay down. Play dead."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Be dead."

• (Dale Midkiff) "If anything does happen while he's under the gas, and that's a 1 in a 1,000 shot, but it does happen, you explain it to her."
• (Miko Hughes) "Church."

• (Dale Midkiff) "My father used to have a saying, Jud. God sees the truth -- But waits."

• (Dale Midkiff) "f*** off, hairball."
• (Dale Midkiff) "f*** off, hairball."

• (Dale Midkiff) "My little girl's got a cat. Winston Churchill. We call him Church for short."
• (Fred Gwynne) "I'd get him fixed if I were you. Fixed cat don't tend to wander."

• (Dale Midkiff) "How the hell did you get in here."

• (Dale Midkiff) "If it doesn't work -- If he comes back -- and he's like Jud said Timmy Baterman was, well, I'll just put him back to sleep. They don't have to know. Rachel and Ellie, don't ever have to know."

• (Dale Midkiff) "Come back to me, Gage. Come back to us."

• (Dale Midkiff) "What is this place?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "This is their burial ground."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Whose burial ground?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "Micmac Indians. I brought you here to bury Ellie's cat."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Why, for God's sake? I said why Jud?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "I had my reasons."

• (Dale Midkiff) "Church will be just the same. Well, almost the same, and we won't have to worry about him getting run over in the road by trucks. Church will be all right, honey."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "You promise, daddy?"
• (Denise Crosby) "Don't shilly-shally, Louis, give the little girl a promise."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Church will be fine. I promise."
• (Blaze Berdahl) "Yay."

• (Dale Midkiff) "Christ, I don't believe this. You stink, Church."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Hold on a second. Gosh, he chewed his way out. Jesus Christ."
• (Dale Midkiff) "Damn it."

Michael Lombard as Irwin Goldman

• (Michael Lombard) "Louis. I am sorry. What can I say? I lost my mind."
• (Dale Midkiff) "We all lost our minds, Irwin."

• (Michael Lombard) "I knew something like this would happen. I told her when you were first married, you'll have all the grief you can stand, and more, I said. Now, look at this."
• (Michael Lombard) "I hope you rot in hell. Where were you when he was playing in the road? You stinking s***. You killer of children."

Denise Crosby as Rachel

• (Denise Crosby) "You up, doc?"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Getting there."

• (Denise Crosby) "Now what?"
• (Brad Greenquist) "It's trying to stop you. Do you hear me? It's trying to stop you."
• (Denise Crosby) "Is anyone there?"

• (Denise Crosby) "Still friends, doc?"
• (Miko Hughes) "I kissed you."
• (Denise Crosby) "Have a great first day at school, doc."

• (Denise Crosby) "Mr. Crandall? There's a path over there. Do you know where it goes?"
• (Fred Gwynne) "Oh. Ayuh, that's a good story. A good walk. I'll take you up there sometime. Tell you the story, too. After you get settled in."

• (Denise Crosby) "Thank you so much."
• (Brad Greenquist) "Think nothing of it."
• (Orinco Driver) "Well, I didn't get a ticket, lady, so you're welcome. Whatever your problems are, I hope they work out."
• (Brad Greenquist) "It's the end of the line for me, too. I'm not allowed any further."
• (Denise Crosby) "I'm sure things will be fine."
• (Brad Greenquist) "I'm not."

• (Denise Crosby) "My sister died in the back bedroom, and that's what she was -- a dirty secret. I had to -- I had to feed her sometimes. I hated it, but I did it. We wanted her to die. We wished -- for her to be dead. It wasn't just so she wouldn't feel any more pain. It was so we wouldn't feel any more pain. It was because she started to look like this monster. Even now, I wake up and think -- Is Zelda dead yet? Is she?"

• (Denise Crosby) "Darling."

• (Denise Crosby) "My parents were gone when she died."
• (Andrew Hubatsek) "Rachel. Ha ha ha."
• (Denise Crosby) "She started to -- She started to convulse -- And I thought -- I thought -- oh, my God, she's choking. Zelda's choking. And they'll come home, and they'll say I murdered her by choking. They'll say, "You hated her, Rachel", and that was true. And they'll say, "You wanted her to be dead", and that was true too. And then she died. And I started to scream. I ran out of the house screaming, "Zelda's dead. Zelda's dead. Zelda's dead." And the neighbors they came out and they looked --"
• (Denise Crosby) "They thought I was crying. Do you know something? I think maybe -- I was laughing."
• (Dale Midkiff) "If you were, I salute you for it. And If I ever needed another reason to not like your father and mother I have one now. You should never have been left alone with her Rachel, never. Where was the nurse? They actually went out and left an eight year old kid in charge of her dying sister who was probably clinically insane by then."

• (Denise Crosby) "Honey, you just had a bad dream, that's all. You know that, don't you?"
• (Blaze Berdahl) "It wasn't a dream. It was Pax-cow. Pax-cow says daddy is going to do something really bad."
• (Denise Crosby) "Who is this Paxcow? Is he like the Bogeyman?"
• (Blaze Berdahl) "He's a ghost. He's a good ghost. He says he's sent to warn us."

Susan Blommaert as Missy Dandridge

• (Susan Blommaert) "Going to get his --"
• (Dale Midkiff) "Nuts cut, yes. Thank you, Missy, for introducing that colorful phrase into my daughter's vocabulary."
• (Susan Blommaert) "Don't mention it."

• (Susan Blommaert) "Always thought it would be lucky to marry a doctor. Wish I had a doctor around with my stomach pain so bad. Guess I'll never be lucky. Hell, I ain't married to anyone."

Richard Collier as Young Jud

• (Unnamed) "Bye, old Shep. See you in heaven. Yeah?"
• (Unnamed) "This is where my kitty lays. No more he screams and hollers."
• (Unnamed) "He lived for 5 and 20 days. He cost me $50."
• (Richard Collier) "Spot; A good fella. We love you."

Brad Greenquist as Victor Pascow

• (Brad Greenquist) "I'm sorry, Louis, I'm so sorry, but don't make it worse. Don't."
• (Dale Midkiff) "I waited too long with Gage. With Rachel -- it will work this time, because she just died. She just died a little while ago."
• (Brad Greenquist) "Louis -- don't. Please. Louis. No."

• (Brad Greenquist) "The barrier was not meant to be crossed."
• (Dale Midkiff) "It's not my fault that you died. You were as good as dead when they brought you in."
• (Brad Greenquist) "The ground beyond -- is sour."

• (Brad Greenquist) "The soil -- in a man's heart -- is stonier."

• (Brad Greenquist) "This is the place where the dead speak."
• (Dale Midkiff) "I want to wake up. I want to wake up. That's all."
• (Brad Greenquist) "Don't go on, doc. No matter how much you may feel you have to. Do not go on to the place where the dead -- walk."

• (Brad Greenquist) "Come on, doc. We've got places to go."
• (Brad Greenquist) "Come on, doc. Don't make me tell you twice."

Stephen King as Minister

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Andrew Hubatsek as Zelda

• (Andrew Hubatsek) "Rachel? Is that you? I finally came back for you, Rachel. I'm going to twist your back like mine so you'll never get out of bed again. Never get out of bed again."
• (Andrew Hubatsek) "Never get out of bed again. Never get out of bed again."

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