Screen Rant

Pet Sematary 2019 has a reference to IT. 1 / 9

When Rachel is returning to Ludlow, she gets stuck in a traffic jam near a roadsign to Derry. 2 / 9

Derry is the setting for IT, the town terrorized by Pennywise the Clown. 3 / 9

There's no direct connection between Pet Sematary and IT (although both feature evil spirits haunting small towns)... 4 / 9

But this is an example of the movies starting to connect stories just like Stephen King does in his books! 5 / 9

The Dark Tower attempted this on a grander scale in 2017, but the movie flopped. 6 / 9

Hulu's Castle Rock also brings together many aspects from various King books. 7 / 9

But Pet Sematary's IT reference is one of the most overt in high-profile movies so far. 8 / 9

Pennywise will return later this year in IT: Chapter Two. 9 / 9