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Sometimes They Come Back
“With "The Shining" and "Misery" Stephen King scared you to death. Now, he's going to scare you back to life.”
5.9 / 10• 1991• 1h 38m•R• English
HorrorTV Movie
Storyline
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
Cast & Crew
Tim Matheson
Jim Norman
Lead
Brooke Adams
Sally Norman
Robert Rusler
Lawson
Chris Demetral
Wayne Norman
Robert Hy Gorman
Scott Norman
William Sanderson
Mueller
Nicholas Sadler
Vinnie
Bentley Mitchum
North
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Tom McLoughlin's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Sometimes They Come Back is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
