Film
Pet Sematary + Mary Lambert Music Videos
- 9PM
With Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne
“I don’t wanna be buried in a pet cemetery…” sang the Ramones on the fist-pumping title track to this grisly Stephen King adaptation, directed by former Madonna music video director Mary Lambert for maximum shock value. A box office smash that kicked off a wave of 90s King adaptations, Pet Sematary drags a happy family through a parade of horrors when they disturb a supernatural burial ground in rural Maine.
Beginning her career as a director of music videos for some of the biggest hitmakers of the 1980s, Mary Lambert quickly became one of the most prolific and influential masters of the medium as seen in this selection of nostalgia-inducing MTV classics.
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