Haunting PET SEMATARY Trailer and Fan Reaction Experience the new PET SEMATARY trailer and fan reaction! The film, co-directed by Kevin Kölsch, and Dennis Widmyer, stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow. PET SEMATARY will be released in theaters on April 5. Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie ‘Pet Sematary’ located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.