Sometimes They Come Back

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Summary: King does it again, but "Stand By Me" is still better.
Review: The movie is kind of slow and confusing for someone not familiar with King or previous attepts of the book. It is hard to understand what is happening and why through out the movie, because there are so many jumps and flasbacks. The part when they hold the football player in the car and surprise him with that scary mask, made my friend and I scream so loud we got the attention of our neighbors, almost as bad as the hand scene in the end of "Carrie"!!

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Summary: A rare gem built with typically Kingian ingredients
Review: This film is a piece of art, a masterpiece too. It brings together, in a very frightening and disquieting way, many of Stephen King's themes. First two brothers, in the past, one being killed by four bullies. Second, the dead brother is coming back from beyond to help his little, now older, brother solve the problem. Third, the problem is the return of three of the bullies who were killed by a train in their car under a tunnel because the surviving brother had stolen away the key of the car they had dropped, blocking them thus in front of the train. Four, the three bullies are systematically killing the students of the surviving brother, now a teacher who came back to his native city, five, one after another because they have any normal contact with him. Five, they make the deaths look strange so that the teacher will be suspected. Six, he knows about them, either because he sees the crimes in real life, but he is the only one to see them, or because he is haunted in his dreams with a vision that tells him every detail. Seven, this will go on till he accepts a final confrontation in the very same place where the first confrontation occurred in the past. Eight, they will be destroyed by a replay of the train scene, etc. This film is very disquieting because it means no one must ever come back to a place they have fled because of a dramatic event. Or if one ever comes back to such a place, one will have to confront the past and solve it by solving the problem that happened in this past. This theme is common in Stephen King's novels, like, for example, « Dolores Claiborne » or « IT ». The theme of the living deads has been used over and over again, and the great value of Stephen King's imagination is that he introduces so many variations that we, at times, do not even recognize the theme, like in « The Dark Half », for instance. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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Summary: All the actors were brilliant, especially Vinnie
Review: This film was another example of Kings excellence. And if anyone knows the off screen name for the character Vinnie i would be very grateful.

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Summary: All too cool!!
Review: This is a great movie that is based on a rather strange short story by the master himself, Stephen King. The original short story was very short and had a "strange" ending. This movie, i my opinion is better than the story by far. The original short story I think is only 20 or 30 something pages and lacks alot of characterization. This movie fills in the giant hole that is in the short story. And believe it or not, this made-for-tv movie has great acting. The boys who play the hoods are pretty convincing--especially Richard Lawson. The story is about a teacher named Jim Norman who moves to a new town in whicch his brother was killed by a group of hoods in about thirty years earlier. He keeps having dreams about them that are haunting him. One day on of his students ends up missing and one of the dead hoods from the 50's is seating in his seat--for every person they kill another one comes back. Student after student keeps being killed and another after another hood returns to class for revenge. Th only way that they can be stopped is if they have a final confrontation with Jim back in the tunnel that claimed the lives of his brother and the hoods. The results are awesome. On another note the DVD isnt very good. The transfer doesnt seem to do the justice. The picture messes up every once and a while and sometimes i noticed that the words seem to not match their mouth! The sound is awesome though. Thank you for your time.

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Summary: Good movie, bad dvd transfer!
Review: This is a great movie that is based on a rather strange short story by the master himself, Stephen King. The original short story was very short and had a "strange" ending. This movie, i my opinion is better than the story by far. The original short story I think is only 20 or 30 something pages and lacks alot of characterization. This movie fills in the giant hole that is in the short story. And believe it or not, this made-for-tv movie has great acting. The boys who play the hoods are pretty convincing--especially Richard Lawson. The story is about a teacher named Jim Norman who moves to a new town in whicch his brother was killed by a group of hoods in about thirty years earlier. He keeps having dreams about them that are haunting him. One day on of his students ends up missing and one of the dead hoods from the 50's is seating in his seat--for every person they kill another one comes back. Student after student keeps being killed and another after another hood returns to class for revenge. Th only way that they can be stopped is if they have a final confrontation with Jim back in the tunnel that claimed the lives of his brother and the hoods. The results are awesome. On another note the DVD isnt very good. The transfer doesnt seem to do the justice. The picture messes up every once and a while and sometimes i noticed that the words seem to not match their mouth! The sound is awesome though. Thank you for your time.

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Summary: Good movie, bad dvd transfer!
Review: This is a great movie that is based on a rather strange short story by the master himself, Stephen King. The original short story was very short and had a "strange" ending. This movie, i my opinion is better than the story by far. The original short story I think is only 20 or 30 something pages and lacks alot of characterization. This movie fills in the giant hole that is in the short story. And believe it or not, this made-for-tv movie has great acting. The boys who play the hoods are pretty convincing--especially Richard Lawson. The story is about a teacher named Jim Norman who moves to a new town in whicch his brother was killed by a group of hoods in about thirty years earlier. He keeps having dreams about them that are haunting him. One day on of his students ends up missing and one of the dead hoods from the 50's is seating in his seat--for every person they kill another one comes back. Student after student keeps being killed and another after another hood returns to class for revenge. Th only way that they can be stopped is if they have a final confrontation with Jim back in the tunnel that claimed the lives of his brother and the hoods. The results are awesome. On another note the DVD isnt very good. The transfer doesnt seem to do the justice. The picture messes up every once and a while and sometimes i noticed that the words seem to not match their mouth! The sound is awesome though. Thank you for your time.

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Summary: WOW!
Review: This is my favorite movie of all time! I must have rented it 20 times before I finally found it on sale and bought it. All the actors are great especially Nicholas Sadler who played Vinnie. This is the best Stephen King movie ever and it's definately worth seeing.

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Summary: Not the best Stephen King adaptation, not the worst, either
Review: This made-for-TV movie (given an "R" rating in a shameless attempt to boost sales) is one of many TV adaptations of Stephen King's work. Fans of the Master of Horror will be disappointed, but novices looking for a tame and relatively bloodless horror film will enjoy it. A schoolteacher (Tim Matheson) finds himself and his students stalked by the vengeful spirits of some nasty punks who murdered his brother and then got themselves run over by a train. The strengths of this movie are in King's storyline and the solid acting; the weaknesses are in the incredibly watered-down script and the bargain basement production values. This could have been a great miniseries, but the network obviously didn't want to spend the money, and slapped together this movie instead. A really low-budget effort that shows where the corners were cut. As for the DVD itself, the picture quality is as good as it can get for a telefilm, and the sound is rich and full. If you want to buy it, I say go for the DVD. For King completists, it's a nice way to kill some time.

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Summary: Not the best Stephen King adaptation, not the worst, either
Review: This made-for-TV movie (given an "R" rating in a shameless attempt to boost sales) is one of many TV adaptations of Stephen King's work. Fans of the Master of Horror will be disappointed, but novices looking for a tame and relatively bloodless horror film will enjoy it. A schoolteacher (Tim Matheson) finds himself and his students stalked by the vengeful spirits of some nasty punks who murdered his brother and then got themselves run over by a train. The strengths of this movie are in King's storyline and the solid acting; the weaknesses are in the incredibly watered-down script and the bargain basement production values. This could have been a great miniseries, but the network obviously didn't want to spend the money, and slapped together this movie instead. A really low-budget effort that shows where the corners were cut. As for the DVD itself, the picture quality is as good as it can get for a telefilm, and the sound is rich and full. If you want to buy it, I say go for the DVD. For King completists, it's a nice way to kill some time.

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Summary: the scariest movie i ever saw!!!
Review: this movie gave me nightmares for a week king is a geniu