Pet Sematary (1989) [Women in Horror Month 2025]

When I was a young child, probably too young to be watching a film of this nature, I remember Pet Sematary gracing the family television fairly often. I would watch different portions of it here and there, and it somehow managed to be a sort of undeniable presence in my childhood. Before long, it became a sort of staple in my experiences with film, with quotes aplenty being tossed around between myself and my mom. I lost count of how many times we would exchange a deadpan “Yuck. Kiss your own cat,” followed by laughs only an inside joke can bring.

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The 10 Wackiest Academy Award Achievements of All Time

Ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, let’s take a few minutes to consider some of the unlikeliest nominations and winners in the history of cinema’s most prestigious prize.

Who Saw This Coming?
Few people expected Hal Mohr to win the 1935 Best Cinematography Oscar for “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” – if only because he wasn’t nominated. In the mid-1930s, the Academy changed its rules to allow write-in votes to go alongside the ballot nominees, but after write-in candidate Mohr won his award the rules were rewritten to prevent another write-in winner.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)

Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
Directed by I. Freleng
Story by Warren Foster
Animation by Ken Champin, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross
Music by Carl W. Stalling

“Southern Fried Rabbit” might have the most preposterous plot of any Bugs Bunny cartoon. When Bugs’ carrot field in an unnamed Northern state is withered into nothingness by a drought, he finds a newspaper declaring Alabama is enjoying a record carrot crop harvest. Bugs walks to the South, but is stopped at the Mason-Dixon line by Confederate soldier Yosemite Sam, who declares that he’s under orders from General Robert E. Lee to repel Yankees from setting foot on Southern soil. Bugs notes that the War Between the States ended some 90 years earlier, but Sam angrily responds “I ain’t no clock watcher” and tries to keep Bugs out of Dixie.
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