Cemetry Scenes

Graveyards have always been a huge tradition in horror movies, and are very popular these days. They generally bring back terrible, sad, and lonely feelings from their visitors, but they are also a fabulous setting for certain horror films, mostly because of its religious imagery. The gravestones and internal feelings create a creepy atmosphere that is almost universal, but you still have hundreds of dead bodies buried ceremoniously below the surface which makes it more scary.  It’s not hard to see why horror films so often put a focus on cemeteries; it’s a location that everyone automatically associates with dread and terror. Many films have used graveyards as their main location, ours was only one scene in the trailer. Below i will discuss some films that use graveyards.

I Sell the Dead (2008):  A grave robber named Arthur  reflects back on his life right before his hanging to a priest about how he used to go to random cemeteries and dig up bodies to sell for medical experimentation.  I sell the dead is a low budget horror comedy with a very dark type of humor.  It uses the cemetry through the film, especialy in the plot where it is used as a metaphore for new beginnings.

Cemetery Man (1994): Francesco’s main occupation is to live at the cemetery and re-kill the dead that come to life after they have been buried for 7 days in his cemetery. The setting makes the story not very clear and everything you may have thought about it is questioned in subsequent viewings.  It is confusing to watch and the setting in a cemetry makes it scarier.

Pet Sematary (1989): Pet Sematary is about a family who goes through a terrible tragedy when their young child is struck by a truck and is killed. They bury him in the pet cemetery behind their home to resurrect him.  Only catch is that he doesn’t come back to life exactly the same way that he left. The cemetry is the main location and some of the scenes are pretty shocking. (see picture)