The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has announced a special advance screening of the highly anticipated Pet Sematary, based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, hot off of its World Premiere at SXSW.
The event will take place at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park on April 3rd at 7:30pm and will include a Q&A immediately following the screening with Kölsch, Widmyer, actor Jason Clarke, actress Jeté Laurence, and Church the Cat, moderated by The New York Times writer Jason Zinoman. Doors open at 7pm.
FREE tickets will be available March 27th on the festival's website.
Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife, Rachel (Amy Seimetz), and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
The film is directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer from a screenplay by Jeff Buhler screen story by Matt Greenberg based on the novel by Stephen King. Producers are Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian and Steven Schneider. Executive producer is Mark Moran.
Pet Sematary is in theaters on April 5th, 2019.
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