Sometimes They Come Back (TV) | | Cast : | Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams | | Director : | Tom McLoughlin | | Studio : | Vidmark/Trimark | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | May 07, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | August 17, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 11, 2005 | | Summary | Sometimes They Come Back...to polish the story. | Content
 | Let not my review be biased because Vinnie Vincent (Vinnie "The Viper" Corey in the story) is HOT!!!!!!!!! I have found my love for 50s Greasers! But that aside, the movie had a simple, ghostly plot but had some careful planning and creepy scenes. Fun, funny, hip, and horrific. With little violence and no sexual content, this film has your basic ghostly feel. Creative with likeable, believable characters. Sorry Stephen King, but this movie did improve your version (found in "Night Shift"). |
| Rating | | | Date | June 12, 2005 | | Summary | Milford Hi | Content
| Stephen King's: Sometimes They Come Back is very emotional, yet funny at the same time. Given, the movie doesn't come near the quality of the short story. However, it definitely puts SK's story to life. The acting is very good. In fact, for SK's Constant Readers, this appears a good deal in other of his novels & stories. Hearts in Atlantis for one. * That train that appears a # of times in the movie, I wonder if that is: Charlie The Choo-Choo from The Dark Tower saga. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 23, 2005 | | Summary | This movie used to be among my absolute... | Content
| ...favorites when I was younger, and I remember seeing it first time with a friend of mine in his house late at night -and I found it both scary and facinating. I remember the car playing an effective supporting role to "the boys from hell", and I remember the look on those boys faces as frightning -and their behaviour as a good match to this bad-boy-style.
This movie being all in all a typicall work from the supposely horrormaster, Stephen King himself. Before I go on with "Sometimes They Come Back" I have to add that to my disappointment Stephen King is no longer on top of this genre. One; Probably because I'm older now -but also Two; Many of his book-adaptions (including his own, and not only for their time of production) are so amateurish and of the made-for-television-kind that I don't find him as "convinsing" anymore. The book behind "Pet Semetary", well, it still gives me the creeps -a masterpiece in the horror-genre, done with style and intellect, and the name "Zelda" sure brings back some unpleasant memories from that book (It's been a while since I saw the movie, but I remember it as rather creepy too). My point is; I remembered "Sometimes They Come Back" as one of the better adaptions, but times really have changed -to my big disappointment... This movie is average, nothing special to it at all. I had in mind, of course, that it could turn out be a little different than how I remembered it, but the B-movie-feel and the bad picture-quality and sound, and cheap effects not to mention, and the amateurish filming -yes, at first I thought I was looking at a movie from the middle of the 80's, and man was I surprised to read that this movie was produced for tv already back in 91. The quality sure makes it seem older than that, and as you can imagine it didn't exactly help it either.
On the plus side; The acting is good, the lead character (The teacher) and the bad boys are fit for their parts, and saves the movie this way from being a total disaster. Their laughter (the bad boys') indeed still sounds as wicked as I recalled it (another plus I guess) reminding me of hyenas. The car looks "bad" (as another plus), the story makes the movie entertaining enough to keep the viewer from turning the dvd off or shifting channel.
A better production (and adaption) of this King-story could have been a hit, I'm sure of that. I'd give "Sometimes They Come Back" 3 out of 6 stars actually, because of interesting story and good acting and good choise of cast for the movie. Other than that I find it outdated since long, and if you have no "relationship" to the movie I'd recommend you to do something else, maybe read the book instead -I know I will. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 09, 2005 | | Summary | 0 STARS: This movie sucks. | Content
| "Sometimes They Come Back" is a terrible attempt at a horror movie. I love Tim Matheson and I think he is a very good actor, but this movie is just incredibly lame. The idea that these four little punks with leather jackets on are supposed to be scary as ghosts simply does nothing for me except make me thoroughly disappointed that I wasted my time watching this crap. The is movie is a JOKE!!
The scene this movie is based on is a sad scene for sure, but to base the whole movie on it is going to far with nothing. Basically, this whole movie is much ado about nothing.
I think the biggest joke and the most terrible thing about this movie are these little leather jacket wearing punks as ghosts are supposed to scare the viewer and it simply does not work!! The premise behind this movie is flawed and lacking in substance from which a horror movie can be successfully derived.
"sometimes They Come Back" is entirely ineffective as a horror movie and evokes only laughter from a sophisticated horror movie fan. The sequel is so bad, it is not worthy of a comment. Some people call "Sometimes They Come Back" a good horror movie...I just call it rubbish. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 08, 2005 | | Summary | Confronting The Past... | Content
| Poor Jim Norman (Tim "Animal House" Matheson), he's just moved back to his hometown after a disastrous end to his teaching career in Chicago. In his new school, the principal hates him and his students are mostly hateful jocks. To make matters worse, Jim's memories of growing up in this town are dominated by the day his brother was killed 27 years earlier by four greasers in a black car. Jim wakes up nightly, deeply disturbed by realistic nightmares of the event. Soon, three of the kids in his class are murdered and replaced by the ghosts of three of the killers from Jim's past! You see, Jim's brother wasn't the only one who died that day. The punks who killed him were hit by a train! Now, Jim must face his past and deal with his fear in order to save himself and his family from certain death. Matheson is very good as Jim. His wife is played by Brooke Adams (Shock Waves, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers). The ghostly-greasers are certainly worthy of special mention, as they are truly menacing and funny in an evil sort of way. They seem like the kind of guys you might run into in some lonely alley. Guys who laugh and joke around while robbing and killing you! Just imagine these crazy types as seemingly indestructible undead who are after you and your loved ones! STCB is a nice little creeper to add to your next spook-a-thon... |
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