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1991 · United States

Sometimes They Come Back

Tonight at a glance

Runtime
98 min
Age rating
R
Language
English
Country
United States
Frights
Strong

Why tonight?

  • Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
  • It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.

The story

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.

  • high school
  • loss of loved one
  • bully
  • train
  • childhood
  • ghost
  • tunnel
  • suppressed memory

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Production

Rating
5.9 / 10 · 283 ratings
Studio
Dino de Laurentiis Communications