
A Dark Song(2016)
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.


“With "The Shining" and "Misery" Stephen King scared you to death. Now, he's going to scare you back to life.”
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.

Tim Matheson
Jim Norman

Brooke Adams
Sally Norman

Robert Rusler
Lawson

Chris Demetral
Wayne Norman

Robert Hy Gorman
Scott Norman

William Sanderson
Mueller

Nicholas Sadler
Vinnie

Bentley Mitchum
North

Matt Nolan
Billy

Tasia Valenza
Kate
Sometimes They Come Back is a horror, tv movie film released in 1991 exploring themes of high school, loss of loved one, bully, train, childhood, ghost. Directed by Tom McLoughlin, it stars Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler. 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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