Sometimes They Come Back

Sometimes They Come Back (1991) is a Stephen King TV horror film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Tom McLaughlin. Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) takes a teaching job in the town where, twenty-seven years earlier, he watched teenage hoods murder his kid brother — and then saw those same teens crushed by a train.

The past has a long reach. Students in Jim's new class start dying, and their empty seats fill up with strangers who wear the dead boys' faces. His wife (Brooke Adams) tries to keep him grounded as the line between memory and something much worse starts to blur.

King's source story was short and punchy; McLaughlin expands it into a slow-burn format that mostly works. The horror here isn't the gore — it's the grinding dread of a man being pulled back into the worst night of his life, whether he wants to go or not. Stream Sometimes They Come Back (1991) on iFILM.