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‘Pet Sematary’ Filmmaker Mary Lambert Is Ready for a Return to Horror

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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…

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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