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."
ThumbScore
👍 69%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 67%
(RT: 67%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
Seen it? Rate it in one tap.
FavoriteLoved itLiked itIt was OKNot for me
Rate 5 films and ThumbScore predicts your score for every other one. Not seen it? Get your predicted score →
Where to Watch
Streaming
Subtitles on OpenSubtitles.com: English · Español · Español (Latinoamérica) · Español (España)
Most Spanish subtitles are not marked by region.
Full of ads, or out of sync? Fix it free, in your browser
Cast
Robert Rusler as Lawson
Chris Demetral as Wayne Norman
Nicholas Sadler as Vinnie
Bentley Mitchum as North
Is Sometimes They Come Back good?
It's divisive. 69% audience score, estimated from 287 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 67%.
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. Wikipedia ↗
