- HD 1080
- Runtime: 98m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Tom McLoughlin
- Stars: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler, Chris Demetral, Robert Hy Gorman
- keywords: high school, loss of loved one, bully, train, childhood, ghost, tunnel, suppressed memory
- Production_studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Slogan: With "The Shining" and "Misery" Stephen King scared you to death. Now, he's going to scare you back to life.
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- The Sometimes They Come Back is featured in the top rankings of 1991
- #16 in Top Horror Movies of 1991
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.