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Sometimes They Come Back

Sometimes They Come Back

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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."

1991

1h 38m

5.9(284 votes)

Horror

TV Movie

Thriller

Drama

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.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Tim Matheson

Tim Matheson

Jim Norman

Brooke Adams

Brooke Adams

Sally Norman

Robert Rusler

Robert Rusler

Lawson

Chris Demetral

Chris Demetral

Wayne Norman

Robert Hy Gorman

Robert Hy Gorman

Scott Norman

William Sanderson

William Sanderson

Mueller

Nicholas Sadler

Nicholas Sadler

Vinnie

Bentley Mitchum

Bentley Mitchum

North

Matt Nolan

Matt Nolan

Billy

Tasia Valenza

Tasia Valenza

Kate

Creative team

Directed by: Tom McLoughlin
Written by: Lawrence Konner
Mark Rosenthal
Produced by: Michael S. Murphey

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