Sometimes They Come Back

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.

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Release Date

5/7/1991

Runtime

98 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A haunting exploration of how unresolved childhood trauma resurfaces to haunt you, wrapped in a supernatural revenge tale where the past literally refuses to stay buried. It's Stephen King mining horror from psychological wounds rather than jump scares.

Mood

Dread-soakedMelancholicTense

Themes

GriefRevengeMemory

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violenceChild endangerment

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