Sometimes They Come Back

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

Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) needs work, and the only job on offer is teaching high school in the town where he watched teenage bullies kill his brother twenty-seven years ago. Soon the students in his class start dying, and each is replaced by a new face that looks like one of the dead hoodlums. Tom McLoughlin, working from Stephen King's story, keeps it small and television-sized, and the dread builds out of ordinary classroom scenes.