Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Release Date: May 7, 1991 Wide
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This adaptation of Stephen King's thriller is about a man who returns to his hometown after 27 years. Soon he is tormented by ghosts of the dead teens who killed his brother years before. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi
May 7, 1991 Wide
Oct 1, 1999
MGM
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Tim Matheson
Jim Norman -
Brooke Adams
Sally Norman -
William Sanderson
Mueller -
Chris Demetral
Wayne Norman -
Robert Hy Gorman
Scott Norman -
Nancy McLaughlin
Dr. Bernardi -
Duncan McLeod
Old Officer Neil -
Bentley Mitchum
North -
Robert Rusler
Lawson -
Nicholas Sadler
Vinnie -
Tasia Valenza
Kate -
Don Ruffin
Young Mueller -
William Kuhlke
Principal Simmons -
Matt Nolan
Billy -
Timothy Graham
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Richard Lawson: Dead.
David North: VERY dead.
If PBS attempted to make a horror film, it would come out a lot like Sometimes They Come Back. This movie was pretty much torture to watch. Okay it is a made for tv movie, but I don't care; at least make it somewhat enjoyable. I don't like to call movies corny because it's an overused statement, but damn is this movie corny.
The flashbacks that Jim has of him and his brother are simultaneously embarrassing to watch and hilarious. The dialogue is just so fake between them. As for the rest of the movie, it isn't as bad as the flashbacks, but still horrible. I haven't read the short story by Stephen King, but I highly doubt that this captured it like he wrote it.
The movie has a lot of King elements that he uses in so many of his stories. A man comes back to a town where he lived as a child like in Salem's Lot and Dolores Claiborne. There's a gang of hoodlums that tormented him and his brother as kids like in IT and Stand By Me. The whole plot is about overcoming something from the past that is effecting you presently and if you don't deal without it forever. I guess by those plot details, it reminds me most of IT.
Sometimes They Come Back is down there with the worst of the King adaptions that I have seen. Not quite to the level of Dreamcatcher, but still almost unwatchable. The cast is bad, especially the actress who plays his wife; I'd write her name, but honestly I don't care enough to even look at the credits.