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‘Pet Sematary’ Filmmaker Mary Lambert Is Ready for a Return to Horror
Widely considered to be one of the very best Stephen King horror movies, 1989’s Pet Sematary was directed by Mary Lambert, who at the time was fresh off directing a string of music videos including Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl,” as well as Janet Jackson’s “Control,” Sting’s “We’ll Be Together,” and Rod Stewart’s “Love Touch.”
In the wake of Pet Sematary, Lambert directed the “Collection Completed” episode of HBO’s “Tales from the Crypt,” and she subsequently returned to the world of Stephen King with Pet Sematary II in 1991, an original horror story that used King’s tale as its launching point.
Mary Lambert went on direct the 1996 made-for-TV thriller Face of Evil and later Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge in 2001 and sequel Urban Legends: Bloody Mary in 2005, as well as Mega Python vs. Gatoroid more recently in 2011. It’s now been over ten years since Lambert has directed a horror movie, but the filmmaker is itching to return to the genre.
Responding to a tweet from a fan this week, Lambert notes that she’d “really love to make” another horror movie, which is something we sure would love to see happen.
Ellie Creed in ‘Pet Sematary’ (1989)
Speaking with Bloody Disgusting back in 2019, Lambert expressed her desire to make another Pet Sematary movie centered on Ellie Creed, which was her original idea for the 90s sequel.
“What I really would like to do would be Ellie coming back as a young woman to Maine with her cat to find out what happened to her parents,” Lambert told us.
Lambert further detailed her original Pet Sematary II concept, “She’s in Chicago at the end of the original movie. I’m pretty sure her grandparents wouldn’t have sent her back to live alone in that house after all that had happened, so I would just take the point of view that Ellie grew up in Chicago but what happened to her parents was not discussed very much. I would have jumped ahead to have her be a young woman. I would have her go back to Maine with her cat.”
Whatever Lambert wants to do in the horror space, we’re all ears. Stay tuned…
I’d really love to make one 🖤 https://t.co/AIuv0UYSXS
— Mary Lambert (@TheMaryLambert) January 31, 2022
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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