The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>OK, the little fucking kid in Pet Sematary creeps me out, and to think I almost didn't want to watch that scene with the Kite.....</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, Gage Creed creeped me out too. I needed to bring in The Exorcist on his ass....</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Steve Irwin, the Croc Huntah meets Regan the possessed girl from the Exorcist. "Oh Crikey! She's a nasty one, eh?" *puts Regan into a full nelson*</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Ah yes, the kite and truck scene. It's the sign of the times - the teenagers laughed in the theater when that happened. That creeped me out more than the movie.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>"C'mon devil say uncle!" *australian accent* "Now I'm gonna stick my thumb IN the devil's butt-hole, this'll REALLy piss im off!"</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If I remember correctly, King said that Pet Cemetary was the only book that he actually scared himself while writing it.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Well yeah, very powerful book. Hell, the quality of books like that... is exactly why they don't get pissed if he writes a few duds now and then.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Pet Cemetary was kinda dry, in my opinion. Dark Half was better</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>How did you decide to say The Dark Half was better when there were a hundred others you could have chose? (Not confrotational, I'm genuinely curious.)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I tried to think of another King book with about the same depth and scope of Pet Cemetary. I wouldn't want to compare it to one of his more epic novels like It or The Stand and I wouldn't want to put it in the same category as one of his non-horror books like Dolores Claiborne. Dark Half and Pet Cemetary are in the same genre, about the same length, and are relatively close in popularity (novel-wise at least).</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Laughter is a natural reaction to an ambiguous situation. When we don't know how to react, we laugh. Hence nervous laughter, and people laughing at parts of a movie where something bad happens.</div>