Pet Sematary

Louis Creed relocates his wife Rachel, daughter Ellie, toddler son Gage, and their cat Church from Boston to a farmhouse in rural Maine. Their neighbor Jud Crandall is warm and welcoming, though he cautions them early about the trucks that tear past on the highway. The warning doesn't land until Church is killed by one.

Jud leads Louis into the woods, past the children's pet cemetery, to an ancient Micmac burial ground beyond a deadfall. Church is buried there and returns — hostile, foul, fundamentally wrong. Louis tells himself it's manageable. Then Ellie is struck and killed by a passing truck on the highway.

Grief-stricken and ignoring every warning Jud gives him about the soil going sourer, Louis carries Ellie to the burial ground. She returns. She is not Ellie. She kills Jud with Louis's surgical scalpel, then calls her mother home. Rachel, already haunted by visions of her dead sister Zelda, drives back to Maine despite Louis's desperate pleas. Ellie kills her.

Louis tries to bury Rachel quickly — telling himself speed is the variable, that she'll come back right if the soil doesn't have time to work on her. She doesn't come back right. At the film's end, Louis sits alone at the kitchen table. The door opens. Rachel walks in. Then Ellie. Then little Gage, holding a kitchen knife. The burial ground had the whole family in the end.