If you’ve been avoiding the trailers, avoid this article. You have been warned.

Since the second trailer was so intent on spoiling it for us, most of us know going into Pet Sematary that it’s not Gage Creed who’s killed and brought back to life, like in the novel and the 1989 film, but rather Gage’s older sister, Ellie Creed. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch have already explained why they made the swap, but what does Stephen King think of it?

“It’s something different,” King just told EW, when they asked for his thoughts. “They did a good job. Boy, I saw all the stuff that came online when people realized that it was Ellie rather than Gage that got run over in the road, and I’m thinking like, ‘Man, these people…’ It’s so nuts. It didn’t change anything for me. I thought, ‘Okay, I understand why they did it, because it’s maybe easier to work with a zombie when she’s a little girl than a toddler.’”

He continued, praising the film, “It’s fucking great. It’s a really good movie. It’s a grown-up, adult kind of movie. It’s not like twelve semi-clad teens get killed in a summer camp.”

Twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie play Gage Creed, with Jeté Laurence as Ellie Creed. Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz are our new Louis and Rachel Creed, with John Lithgow as Jud Crandall. Obssa Ahmed is playing Victor Pascow, with Alyssa Brooke Levine as Zelda.

“Based on the novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.”

Return to the Pet Sematary on April 5, 2019.