Stephen King’s Graveyard of the Snuggles is one of his scariest horror stories. At Paramount+, the prequel to the 2019 remake opens today.
Stephen King’s chilling novel Graveyard of the Snuggles is one of his creepiest works and has inspired four horror films since its publication in 1983. Now, more than four years after the remake, Graveyard of the Cuddly Animals, the latest adaptation takes us back to the eerie horror graveyard.
Graveyard of the Cuddly Animals: Bloodlines is available to stream now from Paramount+ *. The horror prequel takes its cue from a gruesome story that was deliberately left out of the 2019 Stephen King adaptation.
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What do you rate this 80s horror classic from Stephen King out of ten? pic.twitter.com/WkzKoQACYo– Sage O’Hare (@BigShade55) October 13, 2023
This is what Cemetery of the Cuddly Animals Bloodlines is all about
Many decades before the grisly events of Graveyard of the Cuddly Animals, Jud Crandall (Jackson White as a young John Lithgow) wants to leave the small town of Ludlow in 1969 to join the Peace Corps. An ancient evil that has surrounded the small town for centuries wants to prevent that.
Jud’s childhood friend has turned into a creepy weirdo with a hunger for bloody fresh meat since returning from Vietnam. The reason: Timmy Baterman actually died in the war and was buried by his father in an ancient cemetery of the Mi’kmaq tribe, which resurrects the dead. The “zombie” now begins to tyrannize the living.
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– Stephane Fanguin (@SFanguin) October 7, 2023
All the way through Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, I was thinking Jackson White was the spitting image of AND sounded like David Krumholtz. Unbelievable!@jacksonwhite @Davidkrumholtzy pic.twitter.com/bZOMVPKEjl
– Wolfman’s Got Nards (@WolfmansGotNard) October 6, 2023
Fans of Stephen King’s original novel or even Mary Lambert’s 1989 film adaptation Cemetery of the Cuddly Animals should find the plot familiar. The basis for the new film is the story of resurrected war returnee Timmy Baterman, which was told as a flashback in both the book and the film. In the 2019 remake, this chapter was deliberately omitted.
And for all Cemetery of the Cuddly Animals fans who were afraid of the biting zombie cat Church in the original, there is a new animal surprise. This time, the prequel unleashes a resurrected zombie dog on the residents:inside of Ludlow.
Another reason to immediately put Graveyard of Cuddly Animals Bloodlines on your watch list is also the notable cast. In addition to the main actor Jackson White, known from the series Tell Me Lies, Natalie Alyn Lind (The Gifted), David Duchovny (The X-Files), Henry Thomas (Haunted Hill House) and Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier can be seen in other roles.
When and where can I stream the Graveyard of Cuddly Animals movies?
The horror prequel Graveyard of the Cuddly Animals: Bloodlines has been streaming exclusively on the Paramount+ streaming service since October 7, 2023. There you can stream the first film adaptation from 1989 as well as its sequel, Graveyard of the Cuddly Animals II.
The remake or the remake of Graveyard of the Cuddly Animals (2019) is unfortunately not currently streaming anywhere in the subscription. Among other places, you can rent and buy the movie digitally on Amazon Prime Video .
