3. Pet Sematary (1989)
A pet isn't just for life Okay, so it is not a film solely about cats, but it does feature, as an integral part of the story, a reanimated, scary looking zombie feline. The Creeds move from Chicago to small town Maine. They live in a beautiful house, but there is an extremely busy road outside their house which their elderly neighbour Jud warns them about. After Louis Creed (the father of the family who is a doctor) saves Jud's wife when she has a heart attack, Jud takes Louis up to an Indian cemetery for 'thanks'. The Creed's beautiful British Blue cat Church has been run over and Louis buries him in the cemetery as he can't bear to tell the kids that Church got mulched by a passing vehicle. The next day, Church returns. He acts flat and a little bit 'dead' according to Louis. He insatiably hunts birds and mice but just rips them apart savagely and doesn't eat them. He smells terrible too. So Louis knows it is not a good thing to have done this. A couple of months later, his toddler son Gage dies on the busy road and a grief crazed Louis buries him at the cemetery. Gage reemerges as a murderous, malicious little zombie turd who kills people (including his own mother). Louis loads up on morphine syringes and it is good night for Church and Gage. Stephen King actually wrote the book from personal experience. He once lived by a very traffic filled road where lots of pets in the vicinity were killed on. There was a real pet cemetery beside where he lived and his daughter buried her cat Smucky there. This gave King the inspiration for the book but he thought he had gone too far with the story and filed it away somewhere. His wife and Peter Straub had to convince King to submit it for publication. Pet Sematary is not solely based on zombie cat horror mayhem, with the ultimate story focusing upon Gage's reanimation, but Church is a pretty freaky animal whenever he is resurrected in the cemetery. Louis Gage should have known better than to stick his son in the graveyard after seeing what happened to Church the cat. However, I suppose grief does strange things to people. Pet Sematary is an excellent film - a really great adaptation of King's novel. And it does feature a scary cat which is incidentally on the front cover of the DVDs. So I deem it a partially scary cat movie.