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Sometimes They Come Back is a 1991 American made-for-television horror film based on the 1974 short story of the same name by Stephen King. The film tells the tale of a man and his family that return to his home town, but is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid. The film was followed by two straight-to-video sequels: Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) and Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998).
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.
Jon Porter comes home for a funeral and walks straight back into hell. The demons who butchered his sister are back, nastier than ever, and now they want his daughter, body and soul.
A rescue team investigates a silent Antarctic base, only to uncover a hellish force raising the dead—turning the frozen outpost into a blood-soaked battleground where the corpses don’t stay buried.