And don't say because Steven King is weird.
2006-08-22 07:19:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
bECAUSE THEY ARE ALL LINED UP making them all Symetrical!?!
2006-08-22 07:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by lisa c 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"King was inspired to write the novel while living at a house in Orrington in the late 1970s. There was a cemetery for dead animals behind the house, and the children who maintained the graveyard had named it "Pet Sematary". Not long after King's family had moved in, his daughter Naomi lost her cat, Smuckey, out on the highway. She threw a tantrum after the cat's burial, which was transcribed word-for-word into the book. A few weeks later King's youngest son got close to the road and was almost hit by a truck."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary#Trivia
2006-08-22 07:26:06 · answer #2 · answered by Steve Dave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the sign at the original pet cemetery in the book had been written out by a child & was sounded out phonetically.
I hated that book! After I read that one, I took a break from King for a long time - it was just gross to me.
2006-08-22 08:06:01 · answer #3 · answered by pumpkin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book and movie both had the spelling of PET SEMATARY (with an S) because that is how it was spelled in Stephen King's book by an illiterate character.
2006-08-22 07:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Cemetery was put together by children for their pets........... Again because we are talking about children....ask a child how to spell it out. They would probably sound it out and would say sematary......just like it sounds.......
2006-08-22 07:32:11 · answer #5 · answered by Shanysue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been a long time since I read the book or saw the movie, but I think it was because the sign was made by a child & therefore reflects that child's age & spelling ability.
Using that spelling for the title, in my opinion, was a cool way to show the conflict between the innocence of child and the creepiness of death.
2006-08-22 07:25:14 · answer #6 · answered by visualizewhirledpeas72 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Read the book. The sign to the cemetery was misspelled.
2006-08-22 07:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a movie and they can name it anything they want. Better than b/c Steven King is weird?
2006-08-22 07:24:41 · answer #8 · answered by dolphin2253 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in the book it says it's where the children buried their pets, so a child would possibly spell it that way, it's cute ;)
2006-08-22 07:25:40 · answer #9 · answered by HiKo73 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the book, the cemetary was formed by children for their pets, and that's how one of them spelled it.
2006-08-22 07:26:32 · answer #10 · answered by But Inside I'm Screaming 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's because the children in the book who began the cemetary misspelled it.
2006-08-22 07:42:04 · answer #11 · answered by vipercomp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋