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Sometimes They Come Back

Sometimes They Come Back (1991)

With "The Shining" and "Misery" Stephen King scared you to death. Now, he's going to scare you back to life.

Radar 39Stable signalUS:R1h 38mHorror · TV Movie

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

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.

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✗ Not for kidsAdults only · US R
Scary / frightening

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Radar score39/100
Quality signal63/100
Audience rating5.9
Votes counted280
Trust signalStable signal

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