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Hey-ho, let's go.
~ Louis' catchphrase in the novel.
God sees the truth, but waits.
~ Louis Creed, 1989 film.
Hug your daughter.
~ Louis to Rachel on Ellie, 2019 film.

Louis Creed is the main protagonist of the Stephen King novel and horror movie Pet Sematary, and its 2019 remake. A doctor moving to a new town, he suffers from a tragedy that leaves him making a tough choice to resurrect his dead child.

He was portrayed by Dale Midkiff in the 1989 film, and by Jason Clarke in the 2019 remake. Clarke also portrayed Malcolm in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and John Connor/T-3000 in Terminator: Geniysis.

Biography[]

Novel and 1989 film

Louis moves to Ludlow, Maine, along with his wife Rachel, their children Ellie and Gage and Ellie's cat, Wiston Churchill (Church for short). They quickly befriend their new neighbor, Jud Crandall, expecially Louis who sees Jud as a surrogate father. However, the Creeds have all traumatic experiences during their first weeks in Ludlow: Ellie, after visiting the "pet sematary", is afraid that Church will die as well and this provokes an argument between Louis and Rachel about death (Rachel later reveals to be still traumatized by her sister Zelda's early death, which is brought up several times in flashbacks), and Victor Pascow, a student fatally injured in a car accident, adresses his last words to Louis, even though they have never met before. Later that night, Victor's ghost leads Louis to the "pet sematary" and warns him not to cross the barrier. Louis wakes up in his bed and thinks it was all a vivid dream - until he sees his feet covered with mud and pine needles.

While Rachel, Ellie and Gage are away, Church is run over and killed by a truck on the road in front of their house (which is costantly frequented by trucks and has caused lots of pets' deaths, leading to the construction of the "sematary"). Jud takes Louis to a Micmac Indian burial ground, where he instructs Louis to bury the cat the wendigo took interest in Louis to see if he can make him reach his breaking point and alter his sanity worse.

Later Church comes back but sadly not the same as he was before where his cute soul became a follower shadow of himself, but it is much more aggressive now, ripping apart birds and mice without eating them, and smells so bad that Ellie refuses to let it stay in her room at night. Jud confirms that the cat has been resurrected by the power of the burial ground and that he buried his own dog Spot there when he was younger, however he warns Louis that "whatever lives in the ground beyond the Pet Sematary ain't human at all", implying the presence of an evil spirit, the Wendigo, which has infected the burial site and possesses all the corpses buried up there.

Shortly afterwards Gage is killed by a truck on the same road and Louis, overcome with grief and despair, considers burying him in the Micmac burial ground and bringing him back to life. Jud, guessing what Louis is planning, tells him the story of Timmy Baterman, who was killed during World War II and resurrected by his father Bill. Timmy returned as an evil shell of himself, terrifying the townsfolk (in the novel, when Jud and three of his friends attempted to reason with Bill in order not to let the government know about the burial site, Timmy told all of them secrets he had absolutely no way of knowing), so Jud and his friends (in the novel Bill himself) set his house on fire, killing both him and Bill. He concludes that "sometimes, dead is better" and the ground has a power, which may have caused Gage's death since Jud introduced Louis to it He also mentions that the Indians knew about the the pet sematary and the burial ground results of stop Tampering and messing with it results of the ground became sour and evil.

Jud beg Louis out of Mercy not to bury his son Gage in the pet sematary trying to talk him out of it that this is not what his son wanted from his father to be brought back to be a worse version of himself just like Timothy.

Nevertheless, Louis still corrupted by the pet sematary and wendigo influence Louis heads to the cemetery where Gage is buried and exhumes his son's body, taking him to the burial ground (which is his 2nd mistake) while Rachel and Ellie go to Rachel's parents. After Ellie has a nightmare, stating that "Paxcow" warned her that her father is going to do something really bad, Rachel returns home. In the meantime Gage comes back but not the same as he was as his body becomes possessed by the wendigo, steals a scalpel from Louis' bag and heads to Jud's house, where he viciously murders both him and Rachel.

The next morning Louis wakes up and discovers that Gage came back due to the small muddy footprints as he begins to investigate his in-laws call him as his father-in-law tells him about Ellie's condition becomes completely worse assuming that their granddaughter became hysterical

He also tells him that Ellie had a horrible dream that her mother was killed reveals to be true Louis hearing this and decided to change the subject that he would call his in-laws later suddenly he gets another phone call reveals to be his son mocking him telling him that he killed Julius and Rachel in a signature matter Louis demand his son what did he do however gage still continues mocking him with sinner laughter as he yells at his son asking him what did he do realizing he made a horrifying mistake of bringing his son back realizing that his son became a former shadow of himself just like Timothy that Julius had completely warned him.


In order to stop him, Louis prepares shots of morphine, killing Church and, after a violent struggle,with Gage in the Novel where he can hear his son in physical pain screaming Daddy Louis was forced to inject gage with morphine where he was sadly forced to watch his son die twice where his son resurfaced few moments back to his normal self before succumb to his death again. He then sets the house on fire, carrying his wife's body out, Pascow appears One last Time apologizing for everything that happened to his family but begs the man not to make the situation worse unfortunately Louis has completely lost his mind due to grief and still corrupted by wendigo to the point of insanity thinking that, since she died just a little while ago, she won't come back as Gage ( which is his 3rd mistake)

Pascow tries to get thru him and begs him more not to do this but yells and disappeared out of frustration.

The novel ends with Rachel coming back and rasping "Darling", leaving Louis' fate uncertain. The movie goes one step further, with Rachel returns from the dead and kisses her husband she start grabbing a knife while the two are kissing and Louis screaming just as the screen blacks out it unknown if Louis survive or was kill by the resurrection Rachel.

2019 film[]

Apart from a few differences (Ellie discovers the "pet sematary" on her own and meets Jud for the first time there, Church is killed and resurrected while the family is all home and Louis, after failing to euthanize it, sets it free in the wild) the movie follows the original until the death, with Ellie being run over by the truck instead of Gage, who Louis manages to pull away just in time.

Louis takes Ellie's corpse to the burial ground after drugging Jud so he won't stop him and, after Rachel and Gage return home (in this adaptation it's Gage who is frightened by Pascow's ghost, that warns him to go home) he attempts to get Rachel on board with their revived daughter. However, Ellie shows her new dark side killing Jud (she torments him assuming his wife Norma's shape and voice, in a way much more similar to the novel than the 1989 film) and chasing Rachel and Gage armed with a knife. They barricade themselves in the bathroom, but realizing that Ellie is breaking down the door Rachel lowers Gage out the window before being stabbed to death. Louis catches Gage, locks him in the car and returns upstairs, where Rachel begs her husband not to be buried "in that place".

Ellie knocks Louis unconscious and drags Rachel's body to the burial ground. After awakening Louis heads to the woods and fights his reanimated daughter. He is about to kill her, but a resurrected Rachel impales him and he is subsequently buried and revived as well. The movie ends with the undead trio approaching the car and Louis gesturing to Gage to open the door. A beeping sound is heard and the screen cuts to black.

In the alternative ending where Louis prepares to kill his daughter Ellie she manipulates him into sparing her will he chose to spare his daughter his wife begs him not to do this however he tell her that everything will be okay once she is pro Resurrection results of going against his wife's wishes and buries her

However in the ending he seems to be very unhappy where Gage is completely crying where Church Ellie and Rachel appears where she repeat the same words in the novel darling.

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Trivia[]

  • Louis Creed is one of the rare times that a Stephen King protagonist dies.
  • Louis attempting to kill Ellie in the 2019 remake has earned him a subreddit called r/f***louiscreed.

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