Sometimes They Come Back

1991

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 61% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 13308 13.3K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Tom McLoughlin Photo
Tom McLoughlin

Top cast

Tasia Valenza Photo
Tasia Valenza as Kate
Tim Matheson Photo
Tim Matheson as Jim Norman
Duncan McLeod Photo
Duncan McLeod as Old Officer Neil
Robert Hy Gorman Photo
Robert Hy Gorman as Scott Norman
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901.72 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 6
1.63 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by EJBaggaley 7 / 10

They've just come up from Milford

This film is a classic 'Stephen King' film. The scenes from this film I mostly enjoyed was Jimmy Normans flashbacks from his childhood memories 27 years before as well as very cool and brutal Nick Sadler (Vinnie 'Vincent' Corey) and Richard Lawson(Robert Rusler) while slaying Jimmys students until they got they're own personal revenge on Jimmy for when they were killed 27 years before. A performance well done! What I liked about this film was the grimness/ darkness of the movie, which brings a shiver in my skin every time I watch it. This feeling brings upon me a sense of realism as though what happened to Jimmy Norman as a child when his brother was murdered by the 4 gangsters and when they came back to haunt him years later has actually happened in real life. Which is amazing because all this would never happen in real life, other than the part when Jimmys brother was murdered. I found this film both scary and humorous (in one) for there were scenes that I didn't know whether to laugh at or scream at (ie. when the 3 gangsters turned into burnt corpses in their car just before they killed one of Jimmys students and the way Jimmys other students body was positioned and the way his face looked when he fell off his bike and landed in the ditch under the bridge. If you haven't seen this film, I suggest you should as you'll be laughing and screaming all the way through it.There was a bit of a vagueness in this film as to what Vinnie Vincents actual and full name was. Was his first name Vincent or was his last name Vincent. This was very unclear to the viewers. In the scene when he first revealed himself in Mr. Normans classroom he didn't tell Jimmy his name - nor did the schools principal before hand like he did with Richard Lawson. Just that he was a transfer from Milford. However he knew what Richard Lawsons name was as the principal told it to him before they met in his classroom. Also the part when Jimmy Norman visited the three gangsters graves at Milford cemetery as Vinnie Vincents was the only grave that wasn't shown properly as it was darkened out. Though Richard Lawsons and David Norths graves were readable. For anybody who has seen this film who is interested in knowing his actually name - I now know what it is. I have researched his name via various sources on the internet and his full and actual name is Vincent Corey. Vinnie Vincent was obviously his nickname.
Reviewed by lost-in-limbo 7 / 10

"You can't kill, that's already dead".

Another adaptation from the Stephen King staple, but this small story is given a little more weight and probably from that gets a little too bogged down and brightly overwrought. Making it somewhat irregular in tone, mainly around the jaded flashback sequences that always inter-cut the present time. Although atmospheric (those sounds we hear which are not there) and unpleasant in parts, it could have been a much darker journey than it was. Still what we got were some solid performances, creepy imagery of our demonic thugs and their done-up car, well placed suspense and a gripping little tale of history repeating itself, but with our protagonist trying everything to make sure it doesn't. A man and his family head back to his hometown for a teaching job, but are still haunted by the childhood death of his older brother caused by a teenage gang who died at the same time in a train accident. But then the heartache comes flooding back when he is harassed in and out of the classroom by the demonic teenagers that killed his brother wanting revenge for their deaths. The plot actually at first plays around with the idea that maybe it's all in the protagonist's weary mind after the first death, but soon enough that's psychological angle is shot down when the first dead teenager makes a classroom appearance. There the tension, while basic gradually builds up as Matheson's character goes toe to toe with the vengeful dead while no one around him believes him. Robert Rusler is truly menacing as the hot-headed leader and Nicolas Sadler is devilishly sly as one of the members. In their decayed make-up, it was a ghastly sight. Tim Matheson's tormented turn is very well pitched, as he battles past events and reality as the two come together in a nightmarish ordeal. Brooke Adams' is affably good and William Sanderson also shows up a minor part. Director Tom McLaughlin (who was behind other horror efforts "One Dark Night" and "Friday the 13th Part 6") gets the most out of this TV production, as while it looks cheap and it could have been much tauter it has some stylish touches, lyrical camera-work and a hankering for numerous slow motion reactions."I can't keep running."
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