Lawson showed that he was sexually attracted to Sally due to in the church scene when the gang took Jimmy's family as a hostage. Rocheport Tunnel, Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back - YouTube A performance well done! Jon knows the nightmare can't continue. I loved this movie growing up. Jim gives the gang back their car keys. With Lawson being dead he was an evil arrogant demon who stopped at nothing to torment Jimmy and the ones he cared about and loved. Jim finds out that there is a way to let his own brother come back. Not the worst, but kind of stagnant and punchless. It sadly changes some things from King's original short story including adding on a sentimental happy ending which the short story didn't have. Because the Stephen King story is kept in Jims perspective, you only hear about the students dying instead of seeing them but the TV version expands on that greatly, including sequences such as Jims psychic vision of Kate (Tasia Valenza) being attacked in a field, and Chip (Chadd Nyerges) being dismembered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hes also notably not just with Sally (Brooke Adams), as he has a young son named Scott (Robert Hy Gorman). One by one 'til they're all back! Sometimes They Come Back (TV Movie 1991) - Trivia - IMDb Jim returns to the train tunnel in which Wayne's murder took place. The tunnel was built by men and mules in 1893 for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad. Wayne embraces Jim hoping to see him one day in afterlife and goes back to the afterlife as Jim's family heads home and Jim finally has found peace after all these years. The locomotive that was used for the scenes that killed the greasers in the train tunnel in the film, was the Southern Pacific 5021. Sometimes They Come Back (film) - Alchetron.com Sometimes They Come Back - The Incident: Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) remembers what happened on that fateful day.BUY THE MOVIE: https://www.fandangonow.com/details/movie/sometimes-they-come-back-1991/MMV83C6F4347782E5F9DCA39ADFF21636B81?cmp=Movieclips_YT_DescriptionWatch the best Sometimes They Come Back scenes \u0026 clips:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqrnFoq-fOuZzlAU_ytvTw-4FILM DESCRIPTION:High school teacher Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) reluctantly returns to his hometown with his wife (Brooke Adams) to pursue a job. What I liked about this film was the grimness/ darkness of the movie, which brings a shiver in my skin every time I watch it. Jim then tells Neil that the greasers all claimed to have transferred in from "Milford", but can't find any trace of a "Milford High School". He also drove a black 1955 Chevy 150. Meanwhile, Jim has fallen under the suspicion of Pappas, the local police chief. Sorted by: 2. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Sometimes They Come Back (1991) - The Incident Scene (2/10 - YouTube There the tension, while basic gradually builds up as Matheson's character goes toe to toe with the vengeful dead while no one around him believes him. The movie starts out with two brothers taking a short cut through a train tunnel. The three greasers have supernatural features: they cast no reflection in a mirror; can change their physical appearance to a demonic, mutilated look; are impervious to bullets; and can appear to some while invisible to others. It also has an interesting arched ceiling. The subplot about the surviving member of the greaser gang, Carl Mueller (William Sanderson), was added for the adaptation, as is the whole circumstance for why the dead have returned. He is joined by Mueller, who apologizes for Wayne's death and offers to help. You must log in or register to reply here. Awards The steam locomotive used in the film was Southern Pacific 5021 using Norfolk and Western 1218's whistle. It is script contrivances like that, which make me shake my head. "Sometimes they come back again" features a pretty routine plot, though there are some good special F/X and an excellent cast (especially for a low-budget genre picture) to back it up. Since the launch of this column in May, Ive used this forum to talk about many of the best Stephen King adaptations (Carrie, Cujo, Stand By Me, Misery), and a couple of the worst (Children Of The Corn, Graveyard Shift). Richard Lawson | Stephen King Wiki | Fandom Originally optioned as a segment of the 1985 feature film Stephen King's Cat's Eye, it was developed into a separate feature by producer Dino De Laurentiis. I have to admit reading this was more fun. Nothing is explained fully as I would have liked. As gifts to the evil spirit, he offers his two index fingers (which he proceeds to cut off), the sweat band from his brothers hat, and a photograph and they are accepted. It is emotionally well done. The unemployed high school teacher Jim Norman finds a job in his hometown and moves with his wife Sally Norman and their son Scott back in town. Jim tracks down a retired policeman, Officer Neil, who reveals that he had been shot during a robbery and had been clinically dead for over three minutes, during which he encountered Wayne's spirit in the "mid-realm" the dimension between the world of the living and one's final destination. As these accidents continue, more students appear in his class who bear resemblances to the thugs who murdered his brother. [3] TV Guide rated it a two out of five stars and wrote that "the solid cast can't lift the material above the routine".[4]. Be it cases where he acted quickly to secure movie rights, or purchased them from a third party, De Laurentiis saw great cinematic potential in Stephen Kings work and while the movies werent always fantastic or successful, one thing that can be said universally about them is that they are faithful to the source material. As weve seen in many adaptations discussed in this column thus far, the biggest deviations can be found in the ending though when you consider the small screen origins of the project, its understandable why the production opted for the conclusion that is featured. As originally written by Stephen King, the antagonists arent killed by an oncoming locomotive after murdering Wayne, but instead are involved in a crash that sees their black 1954 Ford Sedan with Snake Eyes on the side collide with a power pole. This is triggered by his short temper again when in the previous scene Jimmy grabs Lawson into the lockers as he told him to leave his family out of what his gang has planned for their revenge on Jimmy for their deaths. It isn't fully explained, about how they have managed to suddenly appear after being dead for 27 years. So they DID use the Rosedale Park for the Cemetary Scenes, is that correct? The greasers attack again and take Mueller with them, reuniting their gang. The finale is probably my favorite part of the movie. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. Running time. Overall, Lawson was a sinister punk, alive or dead, who enjoyed making others' lives miserable even if the film didn't go to much of its extremes. Now they have "come back" to haunt him. Lawson was portrayed by Robert Rusler. A doorway to the afterlife opens, allowing Wayne to return. After the death of Kate, another of Jim's students, Vinnie also returns from the dead and transfers into Jim's class. Lawson laughed as Vinnie grabbed her. Show more Show more. 50 Encouraging Light at the End of the Tunnel Quotes The tunnel was constructed in 1892 by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and in its construction, the drawings and pictographs were destroyed.The tunnel is now a part of the Katy trail which goes from Clinton, Missouri to Machens, Missouri. In their decayed make-up, it was a ghastly sight. Charles Barkley - Sometimes that light at the end of the Chip Conway, one of Jim's students, warns him that Richard and Vinnie are out for revenge. Him and his gang refused as the other gang member Vinnie Corey (Vinnie Vincent as he is known in the film) grabbed Wayne where they started to push him around. I was impressed with Tim Matheson's performance, although I'll forever link him to Animal House, but he portrays a serious role in fine form in this film and is very convincing. After confronting the new students, Jim discovers that their plan was to come back from the dead and "finish what they started;" murdering Jim in the same way they murdered Wayne in order to keep themselves out of Hell. Sometimes They Come Back starts with Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) returning to the town where he grew up after 27 years along with his wife Sally (Brooke Adams) & their young son Scott (Robert Hy Gorman) having had to take a teaching job there at the local high school. I was surprised to see this was merely a TV movie, there's always a diamond in the rough and this is one of them. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. A young boy witnessed his older brother murdered in a train tunnel while trying to protect him from the high school bullies. Is he imagining it? After he told Sally about no one living when he gets punched, he said "You lucky I have a date tonight to keep. Based on the short story of the same name included in the 1978 collection Night Shift, the adaptation was initially planned as a segment of Lewis Teagues fantastic anthology Cats Eye, but its development saw confidence in its potential grow, and it was kept aside to become its own movie. Brian Parkinson/Flickr Its 243 feet are lined in brick, stone, mortar and earth. Years later Jim ended up married with a young boy of his own and became a school teacher. They kill Chip and throw his remains off of a bridge. After the gang releases the family, Jim hides them inside a church, which the demonic gang cannot enter. Much better than the 5.7 average when I left this review, "You know how you're saying that history repeats itself? So that a signal cannot be sent to open the initially closed door before the front of the train reaches it. Others don't. There he is mistreated, harassed and chased by three students and High School schoolmates : Robert Rustler, Nicholas Sadler, Bentley Mitchum , who deceaded when he was a little boy .They should know you can never go home again since they are both soon threatened by ritualistic and ghastly killers . Jim goes to the Milford Cemetery and finds the graves of the three greasers, who once again confront him. The scenes from this film I mostly enjoyed was Jimmy Normans flashbacks from his childhood memories 27 years before as well as very cool and brutal Nick Sadler (Vinnie 'Vincent' Corey) and Richard Lawson(Robert Rusler) while slaying Jimmys students until they got they're own personal revenge on Jimmy for when they were killed 27 years before. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.". This feeling brings upon me a sense of realism as though what happened to Jimmy Norman as a child when his brother was murdered by the 4 gangsters and when they came back to haunt him years later has actually happened in real life. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Jim Norman, a high school history teacher, moves back to his old hometown to teach after being offered a job there.