- Actors: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler, Chris Demetral, Robert Hy Gorman
- Directors: Tom McLoughlin
- Writers: Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Stephen King
- Producers: David C. Thomas, Dino De Laurentiis, Michael S. Murphey, Milton Subotsky
- Format: NTSC, Import
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Lions Gate
- VHS Release Date: Jun 20 1997
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6302571669
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Desperate for work, troubled high school teacher Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) relocates his family to his rural hometown after procuring a much-needed job there. Once home he must relive and confront a childhood nightmare: the high school hoodlums who murdered his older brother in a tunnel ambush, and were killed themselves by an oncoming train, are slowly rising from the grave to finish the job by killing Norman. The ghostly hooligans, who appear as flesh and blood to students, start "transferring" into school when some of Norman's students mysteriously perish; however their phantom, fire-spitting car is invisible to all but their victims. Suspicion for the inexplicably rising student-body count soon falls squarely on Norman, who must find a way to protect his wife and son from danger, vanquish the supernatural hoods, and cast off the shackles of his past. It's a fairly straightforward plot with some obvious elements, but Matheson and his supporting cast (including wife Brooke Adams) create a suspenseful, fear-inducing atmosphere under the able direction of Tom McLoughlin from a screenplay adaptation by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. --Bryan Reesman
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A perfect 10!,
By Steve Kosman (Chesterton, In. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sometimes They Come Back (VHS Tape)
This movie was extrememly fun and exciting. Although it's considered horror, to me it was just pure action and entertainment from start to finish! I love the way 3 cool greasers from the '60s come back in the '90s and are exactly the same as when they died in '63. How cool those greasers were and the way all the other kids marveled at their charisma in the classroom was cool! It was also cool how that kid Jimmy became a man and then stood up to them. Those greasers and their hotrod were so cool. This movie is an A plus! Rock on Stphen King!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
King does it again, but "Stand By Me" is still better.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sometimes They Come Back (VHS Tape)
The movie is kind of slow and confusing for someone not familiar with King or previous attepts of the book. It is hard to understand what is happening and why through out the movie, because there are so many jumps and flasbacks. The part when they hold the football player in the car and surprise him with that scary mask, made my friend and I scream so loud we got the attention of our neighbors, almost as bad as the hand scene in the end of "Carrie"!!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A rare gem built with typically Kingian ingredients,
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This review is from: Sometimes They Come Back (VHS Tape)
This film is a piece of art, a masterpiece too. It brings together, in a very frightening and disquieting way, many of Stephen King's themes. First two brothers, in the past, one being killed by four bullies. Second, the dead brother is coming back from beyond to help his little, now older, brother solve the problem. Third, the problem is the return of three of the bullies who were killed by a train in their car under a tunnel because the surviving brother had stolen away the key of the car they had dropped, blocking them thus in front of the train. Four, the three bullies are systematically killing the students of the surviving brother, now a teacher who came back to his native city, five, one after another because they have any normal contact with him. Five, they make the deaths look strange so that the teacher will be suspected. Six, he knows about them, either because he sees the crimes in real life, but he is the only one to see them, or because he is haunted in his dreams with a vision that tells him every detail. Seven, this will go on till he accepts a final confrontation in the very same place where the first confrontation occurred in the past. Eight, they will be destroyed by a replay of the train scene, etc. This film is very disquieting because it means no one must ever come back to a place they have fled because of a dramatic event. Or if one ever comes back to such a place, one will have to confront the past and solve it by solving the problem that happened in this past. This theme is common in Stephen King's novels, like, for example, « Dolores Claiborne » or « IT ». The theme of the living deads has been used over and over again, and the great value of Stephen King's imagination is that he introduces so many variations that we, at times, do not even recognize the theme, like in « The Dark Half », for instance. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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