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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 | 98m | English

(13156 votes)

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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.
Release Date: May 07, 1991
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Writer: Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner
Genres: Horror, TV Movie
Keywords loss of loved one, high school, bully, train, childhood, ghost, tunnel, suppressed memory
Production Companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Box Office Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Feb 01, 2025
Entered: Apr 13, 2024
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Name Character
Tim Matheson Jim Norman
Brooke Adams Sally Norman
Robert Rusler Lawson
Chris Demetral Wayne Norman
Robert Hy Gorman Scott Norman
William Sanderson Mueller
Nicholas Sadler Vinnie
Bentley Mitchum North
Matt Nolan Billy
Tasia Valenza Kate
Chadd Nyerges Chip
T. Max Graham Chief Pappas
William Kuhlke Principal Simmons
Duncan McLeod Old Officer Nell
Nancy McLoughlin Dr. Bernardi
Zachary Ball Jimmy Norman
Dick Solowicz Desk Sergeant
Rodney McKay Police Officer
Don Ruffin Young Mueller
Kimball Cummings Young Officer Nell
Name Job
Tom McLoughlin Director
Rick Barker Stunt Coordinator, Stunts
Stephen King Short Story
Karen Patch Costume Design
Bryan England Director of Photography
Mark Rosenthal Screenplay
Martin Bresin Special Effects Coordinator, Stunts
Hope R. Goodwin First Assistant Director
Philip Dean Foreman Production Design
Larry Nicholas Stunts
Cathy A. Roszell Second Assistant Director
Raquel Caballes Maxwell Post Production Supervisor
Elizabeth Porter Script Supervisor
Jerry Lynn Reed Set Dresser
Ian Dennis Leadman
Guy Norman Bee Camera Operator
Jalal Pashandi Second Assistant Camera
Mark Bovos Production Sound Mixer
David Hill First Assistant Editor
Linda Carol Flake Costumer
Patti Brand Makeup Artist
Don Hastings Special Effects Technician
Gale Salus Casting Associate
Frank Ruttencutter Additional Photography
Jeremy Hoenack Supervising Sound Editor
Charles Bornstein Editor
David Cohn Casting
Terry Plumeri Original Music Composer
David C. Thomas Second Unit Director, Unit Production Manager
Jonathan Giles Zimmerman First Assistant Director
Paula Jordan Assistant Production Coordinator
Diane Durant Script Supervisor
Maggie Martin Set Decoration
David Yonally Set Dresser
Eric McHugh Assistant Property Master
Roger R. Wong Second Assistant Camera
Paige Jeffers-Burghardt Still Photographer
Albert Coleman First Assistant Editor
Wendy Champagne Key Costumer
Daniel Marc Makeup Artist
Gabriel Bartalos Special Effects Makeup Artist
Scott Sand Special Effects Technician
Tracy Sloat Casting Associate
Joseph P. Mandacina Second Unit Director of Photography
James Thornton Sound Mixer
Michael Payne Sound Editor
Ellen Wolff Production Coordinator
Linda Arcari Script Supervisor
Timothy R. Bauer Art Direction
Ronald Megee Set Dresser
Timaree McCormick Property Master
Dale Myrand First Assistant Camera
Roger Branit First Assistant "B" Camera
Scott Sherline Boom Operator
Lucyna Wojciechowski Assistant Editor
Steven Scott Ford Costumer
Victor Hecht Assistant Makeup Artist
Dale Ettema Special Effects Technician
Laura Nelson Location Casting
Michael Carp Camera Operator
Joseph Zappala Sound Editor
Lawrence Konner Screenplay
Don Ruffin Stunts
Name Title
David C. Thomas Co-Producer
Michael S. Murphey Producer
Milton Subotsky Co-Producer
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