Episode 122: Pet Sematary (1989) vs. Pet Sematary (2019)
The Hello, Sidney Podcast
Sidney
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sidney breaks down the original Pet Sematary and how it compares with the remake Pet Sematary (2019), and how both compare with Stephen King's self-proclaimed scariest novel he's ever written.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello? Hello, Sydney. |
| 0:10.0 | What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back with another episode of the Hello |
| 0:14.6 | Sydney podcast here, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror, |
| 0:18.4 | and it's me, your sydney happy wednesday happy |
| 0:22.2 | happy midway through stephen king month happy i'm almost about to go to texas and i'm trying to |
| 0:28.0 | film all my episodes back to back month so even though you guys won't be hearing these all back to back |
| 0:32.4 | i am filming them all back to back in one day we are fucking we're we're going for it got to make |
| 0:37.4 | sure you guys have the apps before i go away to Texas for 10 days. Obviously, that's the most important. I honestly could not have picked a better time for Stephen King month because one of the greatest Stephen King adaptations of all time, if not arguably the greatest, at least in terms of horror movies, just came out. And it's the long walk. |
| 0:54.9 | So I don't know if you guys remember a couple weeks ago. I was like, I just saw the best movie of the year, but I signed an NDA so I can't talk about it. Yeah, it was the long walk. I honestly have not been as emotionally affected by a horror movie, probably since the first time I watched train to Busan. And I'm not comparing it in terms of like storyline and like I think |
| 1:13.5 | train to Busan. And I'm not comparing |
| 1:11.4 | it in terms of like storyline. And like I think Train to Busan, I definitely cried a lot harder. |
| 1:15.7 | But the long walk is just so much deeper and just so fucking soul shattering. And I knew it would be |
| 1:23.3 | because this is one of my favorite Stephen King books. He wrote it in 19. Well, he actually |
| 1:27.4 | wrote it when he was like in high school, which is absolutely fucking insane. King books. He wrote it in 197. Well, he actually wrote it when he was |
| 1:28.1 | like in high school, which is absolutely fucking insane. But he didn't publish it until 1979. It's one of the Bachman |
| 1:33.2 | books. And I read this book and it was like literally physically painful to read. Like it is |
| 1:39.9 | physically so grueling you feel like your feet hurt or something. Like, that's how into the story you get. |
| 1:46.1 | That's how well written it is? And I was honestly worried. I'm like, how are they going to make this into a movie? Like, I don't know if this is going to be like enrapting enough. I don't even know if that's a fucking word. But I don't even know if this is going to like get your attention enough and really drag you into the story like the book does. |
| 2:00.7 | And I've never been so happy to be proven wrong in my whole life. |
| 2:03.5 | This is the best movie I've seen all year. Best horror movie because I'm putting it up there with Life of Chuck. Like Life of Chuck devastated me. This movie equally devastated me. Like for Stephen King adaptations this year, they're killing us. They're trying to actively kill me. Like I am in, I'm grieving., this is, it's too much. I did a full review on my channels and I feel like I honestly sound like an idiot because I just simply can't articulate, like, how beautiful I think this movie was and what it made me feel. Like, I genuinely am struggling to find the words for these emotions because I don't think I've ever felt anything like that before. |
| 2:34.3 | And I know that might sound dramatic, but it just is what it is. So if you haven't seen the long walk, I highly recommend you check it out. Everybody's like, should I watch it in the theater or at home? I'm like, well, if you are fine with crying in public, go see it in the theater because you will cry. I can't see how anybody could not cry at this movie. So with that being said, |
| 2:54.0 | we're talking about a Stephen King adaptation today that came from what he considers to be the scariest |
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