Sometimes They Come Back

May 7, 1991

1h 38m

★ 5.9

With "The Shining" and "Misery" Stephen King scared you to death. Now, he's going to scare you back to life.

Overview

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.

Genres

Horror

TV Movie

Production Companies

Dino de Laurentiis Communications

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Cast

Jim Norman

Tim Matheson

Sally Norman

Brooke Adams

Lawson

Robert Rusler

Wayne Norman

Chris Demetral

Scott Norman

Robert Hy Gorman

Mueller

William Sanderson

Vinnie

Nicholas Sadler

North

Bentley Mitchum

Billy

Matt Nolan

Kate

Tasia Valenza

Chip

Chadd Nyerges

Chief Pappas

T. Max Graham

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