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Sometimes They Come Back

1991 ·1h 38m · ★ 5.9 (272)

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.

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3 horror films in catalog

Horror DNA

Gore
Bloodless Splatterfest
14
Slow Burn
Shock-driven Slow burn
33
Psychological
Straightforward Mind-bending
14
Supernatural
Grounded Otherworldly
40
Creature
Human threats Monster-driven
36
Disturbing
Tame Deeply unsettling
17
Fun Factor
Deadly serious Blast to watch
50
Cerebral
Popcorn horror Thinking horror
0
Survival
No survival element Fight for your life
50
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Child in Danger
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TMDB Keywords

bullychildhoodhigh schoolloss of loved onesuppressed memorytraintunnel

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