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What ever happens to Rachel Creed's character? (Spoiler)


I haven't seen this movie in a long time and I recently watched it on Starz. What happens to Rachel Creed's character after the end of this film? I know they made a sequel and I think I read that the sequel mentions the Creed house. So if Rachel kills Louis at the end of the first film, shouldn't Rachel still be wandering around nearby? Do they mention in the book what ever happens to her character?

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Okay, so the movie ending isn't much different than the book, it sounds. You'd think they would mention something more of her character in the sequel. Seems like a loose end for the book and the movie.

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Possible *spoilers* if you have not seen and/or read Cujo!

The ending is not at all unusual for Stephen King. He tends to leave things like that to the imagination. But the ending for Cujo was changed drastically. In the book the kid died and the mother was showing symptoms of rabies so we know she died too.

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In the book the kid died and the mother was showing symptoms of rabies so we know she died too.

*spoilers for novel of Cujo ahead*

In the book the kid Tad dies, but the mother Donna does not.
She is treated successfully for the rabies & survives.




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In the crappy (but still fun) over the top gory sequel with Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards and Clancy Brown Ellen Creed is mentioned as a ghost story told around a camp-fire. The story goes that she went insane, after losing her entire family, killed her grandparents and then she was locked up in an insane asylum.

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Thanks. I finally saw Pet Semetary II on TV recently and saw that part of the movie. Didn't get to finish it though. I gotta say, the sequel wasn't that entertaining as the first one.

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we dont really know what happened to her the stuff th3e bully in the sequel says is just the urban legends around the town an stuff hes making up to mess with furlongs character the most likley explanation is she found out what happened an obviously went into depression over it an had to go into professional care an treatment her also being psychic would mean she would still be able to talk with her dead family any way an she was meant to be psychic in the book thats why she was able to speak with the dead guys ghost an thats why she had visions of future stuff so in a realistic since she prolly would have gotten over it since it happened at she was so young she would prolly have gotten over it eventually an came to terms with her loss also she prolly would have gotten a boyfriend eventually who would have helped her cope in reality though she prolly would all ways wonder if her visions real real

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That sure as HELL better be fiction (within fiction) about Ellie!! What a waste of her character otherwise!

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Apparently, Stephen King tweeted about it: he said she survived and was raised by adoptive parents, but that she still suffers from nightmares.

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She crash lands on Vagra 2 and is killed by an oily alien.

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that's to broad a statement for me.
Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation and about 65% of Deep Space 9 were really good. Maybe 40% of the movies.
Although the stuff that was good was great.

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She is mentioned briefly in the sequel. One character (I can't remember who) talks about what happened to the Creed family; he mentions that the cat was undead, then adds, "And so was [Louis's] wife, the night she died the second time." He doesn't mention how she was killed; presumably, one of the neighbors or the police shot her.

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I think if they sequel hadnt been created that her date would be rotting in the woods. Animals would be found mutilated, kids it hunters going missing and sightings of her would be reported. Until a group of men went storming into her domain and ended get undead life.

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In the sequel she remarries and has 2 more kids. She moves to California with her new husband and takes an adjunct professor position at San Jose State.

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^AWESOME.

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LMAO I went to San Jose state๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜„

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She then killed her entire MWT 9:00am Modern Europeon History class with a rusty pitchfork and ate their carcasses.

Did not have tenure, so she had to make a lateral move and take a similar position at Santa Clara University.

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I find the tale of what happened to ellie according to the sequel much more interesting however according to a tweet from Stephen king it's not very interesting. Something about her getting adopted by a good family(grandparents must not have lasted long) but that she still has dreams and thinks about things connected to the Pet Semetary. King should have wrote a book about adult Ellie like he did with Danny from The Shining in Doctor Sleep.

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THATS A FILM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE...GROWN UP,HAUNTED ELLIE HAVING VISIONS OF THE PET SEMATARY BEING USED AND AWAKENED...TRAVELLING BACK "HOME" TO DEAL WITH HER PAST AND THE HORROR OF THE PRESENT ...WORKING TOWARDS DESTROYING THE HAUNTED BURIAL SITES POWER...MAYBE HER ROTTED MOTHER APPEARS TO WARN/GUIDE HER...THATS A GREAT IDEA.

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