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Title: Sometimes They Come Back (TV Movie 1991)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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 | |
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Bentley Mitchum | ... | David North |
| Matt Nolan | ... | Billy Sterns | |
| Tasia Valenza | ... | Kate | |
| Chadd Nyerges | ... | Chip | |
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T. Max Graham | ... | Chief Pappas |
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William Kuhlke | ... | Principal Simmons |
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Duncan McLeod | ... | Old Officer Neil |
| Nancy McLoughlin | ... | Dr. Bernardi | |
Taken from the Stephen King short story about a school teacher's return to his home town where his brother was killed by hoods, the hoods died in the freak train wreck along with his brother. Now they have "come back" to haunt him. One by one 'til they're all back! Written by Eric Creed
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Another adaptation from the Stephen King staple, but this small story is given a little more weight and probably from that gets a little too bogged down and brightly overwrought. Making it somewhat irregular in tone, mainly around the jaded flashback sequences that always inter-cut the present time. Although atmospheric (those sounds we hear which are not there) and unpleasant in parts, it could have been a much darker journey than it was. Still what we got were some solid performances, creepy imagery of our demonic thugs and their done-up car, well placed suspense and a gripping little tale of history repeating itself, but with our protagonist trying everything to make sure it doesn't. A man and his family head back to his hometown for a teaching job, but are still haunted by the childhood death of his older brother caused by a teenage gang who died at the same time in a train accident. But then the heartache comes flooding back when he is harassed in and out of the classroom by the demonic teenagers that killed his brother wanting revenge for their deaths. The plot actually at first plays around with the idea that maybe it's all in the protagonist's weary mind after the first death, but soon enough that's psychological angle is shot down when the first dead teenager makes a classroom appearance. There the tension, while basic gradually builds up as Matheson's character goes toe to toe with the vengeful dead while no one around him believes him. Robert Rusler is truly menacing as the hot-headed leader and Nicolas Sadler is devilishly sly as one of the members. In their decayed make-up, it was a ghastly sight. Tim Matheson's tormented turn is very well pitched, as he battles past events and reality as the two come together in a nightmarish ordeal. Brooke Adams' is affably good and William Sanderson also shows up a minor part. Director Tom McLaughlin (who was behind other horror efforts "One Dark Night" and "Friday the 13th Part 6") gets the most out of this TV production, as while it looks cheap and it could have been much tauter it has some stylish touches, lyrical camera-work and a hankering for numerous slow motion reactions.
"I can't keep running."