Spot vs. Biffer
There’s a problem with Jud’s explanation of the pet cemetery in the films. In the original book, Louis asks Jud to explain Church’s return, and Jud tells a story about how his childhood pet, Spot. An angry dog in life, Spot died and was buried in the pet cemetery. But Spot returned from the dead with his personality revered. He was no long vicious, but was instead quiet, slow and kind of empty. Spot eventually died of old age. In the 1989 and 2019 films, things are flipped around: Spot comes back from the dead as a weirdly evil dog. (He’s called Biffer in the 2019 movie for no particular reason, as that’s the name of another dead animal in the book.) While this is more dramatic, it does create a problem of logic. If Jud knows that burying Church at the burial ground will create an evil zombie, why does he think it’s a good idea?