All the Differences Between the 3 Versions of ‘Pet Sematary’

Timmy Baterman

Paramount Pictures

In the book and the original 1989 movie, we get a very clear cautionary tale about why it’s not a good idea to bury people in the pet cemetery in the form. Timmy Baterman, a man who died in World War II, was resurrected by his father and came back wrong. In the book, he’s mostly just really creepy, driving his father insane. In the 1989 film, he’s a cannibal who is stopped only when a young Jud burns his house down with Timmy in it. Timmy is almost entirely absent from the 2019 movie, save for a single blink-and-you’ll-miss-it visual reference in an old newspaper that doesn’t fully prepare the audience for what’s coming.

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