5. Pet Sematary (2019 feature film)
King’s 1983 novel about a mystical patch of land with the power to bring dead things back to life (a tempting yet extremely ill-advised thing to do, as the characters soon learn) begat Mary Lambert’s 1989 movie, which contains some of the most alarming imagery (the scalpel-wielding Gage! ZELDA!) found in any King adaptation. Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s remake fails to recapture those scares, but its reworks of King’s original plot are intriguing. The biggest change was blatantly spoiled by one of the film’s trailers (watch it above if you must), but the film’s last-act twist may still genuinely surprise you.
