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Sometimes They Come Back
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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Stephen King (short story)
Lawrence Konner (teleplay) ...
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Release Date:
7 May 1991 (USA) more
Plot:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid. full summary | full synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Children of the Corn (2009)
 (From SoundOnSight. 7 October 2009, 8:22 PM, PDT)

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underrated quality horror flick more (31 total)

Cast

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Tim Matheson ... Jim Norman

Brooke Adams ... Sally Norman

Robert Rusler ... Richard Lawson
Chris Demetral ... Wayne Norman
Robert Hy Gorman ... Scott Norman

William Sanderson ... Carl Mueller (age 44)

Nicholas Sadler ... Vinnie Vincent
Bentley Mitchum ... David North

Matt Nolan ... Billy Sterns
Tasia Valenza ... Kate

Chadd Nyerges ... Chip
T. Max Graham ... Chief Pappas
William Kuhlke ... Principal Simmons
Duncan McLeod ... Old Officer Neil
Nancy McLoughlin ... Dr. Bernardi
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Stephen King's 'Sometimes They Come Back'
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97 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Continuity: When the guys are chasing Billy you can see North in the back seat, but when the guys drive off after killing Billy you only see Vinnie and Lawson in the car. more
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Richard Lawson: [to Chip] Time to rock, jock! more
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Features "Lunch with Soupy Sales" (1959) more

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underrated quality horror flick, 18 November 2007
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Author: (tottenhamtillidie@gmail.com) from sacramento, ca

90's character actor tim matheson stars in a surprisingly scary adaptation of a stephen king short story about a guy returning to the town he lived in when he was a child which brought back nightmares of the incident that led to the deaths of his brother and the three hoodlums who tried to mug them. It takes a lot to spook me but the 3 main villains in this really played their part and played their bad guys role to the extreme. I was surprised to see this was merely a TV movie, there's always a diamond in the rough and this is one of them. While there are some glaring plot holes and some questions that are not answered, it doesn't detract from being a chillingly entertaining tale about past indisgressions in small town America.

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