Review of Sometimes They Come Back (1991) by Allan C — 29 Nov 2014

This is one Stephen King adaptation I'd never seen, though I'd always heard it wasn't very good and that rumor was right. Tim Matheson returns to his hometown as a high school teacher and then finds his childhood tormentors back from the dead and showing up in his class as students.

This is territory King has mined before to great effect with "IT" and "Stand by Me" but this film felt like a cheaply made for cable USA channel flick. However, Matheson does give an earnest performance, as does Brooke Adams, who plays his wife, which does serve to ground the film.

William Sanderson is also onboard and delivers a typically solid performance. Still this film would have been much better off as a 30 minute short film in "Cat's Eye" which is what it was originally planned to be instead of a feature length film.