Church (Stephen King)

Winston Churchill, better known as Church is the villain from the 1983 book Pet Sematary by Stephen King and the movie of the same name. He is the cat of Ellie Creed.

History
Church is originally a cute and playful cat, loved by his owner Ellie and her family. However, he is run over by a truck. Ellie isn't at home that time, but she had a dream about his death and is terrified. When her father Louis finds Church's body, he doesn't know how to tell Ellie about that. His neighbor Jud Crandall wants to help and leads Louis with the dead cat to the Pet Sematary where he buries Church.

Next day, Louis surprisingly finds Church in the garage. At first he thinks that he buried the wrong cat yesterday, but then notices strange change in Church's behavior. The cat is languid, clumsy and stolid. Moreover, he smells terribly. When Ellie returns home, she wants to play with him no more. Since that, the whole Creed family starts avoiding the cat, kicking and throwing him out the house, but he is always able to get inside somehow. Church also becomes very violent and kills many birds, mises and rats, leaving their crippled bodies lying around the house.

Jud then reveals Louis the truth about the Pet Sematary: everything buried there is brought back to life. Many people buried their animals there, but only one (the bull) was violent after reviving.

After Louis' son Gage is killed by a truck, Louis buries him on the Pet Sematary, too. Gage returns to life, but he is no more the sweet child, but the homicidal, emotionless maniac. He steals Louis' scalpel and walks into their neighbor Jud Crandall's house along with Church. Jud tries to protect himself with a knife, but Church jumps on him, forcing him to drop it. Gage then jumps on the old man and stabs Jud to death. They both then con Gage's mother Rachel and kill her, too.

When Louis heads to Jud's house to stop Gage, he sees Church in the garden. He decoys the cat with a raw steak and pricks him the lethal injection, killing him for once and all. After he kills Gage, he soaks the house in kerosene and sets it on fire, leaving all bodies except Rachel's one inside.