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Sometimes They Come Back

1991, Movie, 1h 38min

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.

Country: United States

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Reviews

Critic William Thomas

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King’s tight short story is neatly expanded to feature-length with intriguing ground rules for the haunting, and Matheson and Brooke Addams are perfect as the representatives of persecuted normality.

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Sometimes They Come Back is a horror film directed by Tom McLoughlin, based on a novella by Stephen King. The movie follows Jim Norman, a high school teacher who returns to his hometown of Liberty, Missouri, where he witnessed his older brother's murder by a gang of greasers when he was a child. After his return, Jim's students start to die mysteriously, and he discovers that the ghosts of his brother's killers have come back to haunt him and his family. As the ghosts become more violent, Jim must confront his past and find a way to stop them before it's too late. The film stars Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, and Robert Rusler.

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