Sometimes They Come Back
| "Sometimes They Come Back" | |
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| Author | Stephen King |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror |
| Published in | Night Shift |
| Media type | Anthology |
| Publication date | 1974 |
"Sometimes They Come Back" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1974 issue of Cavalier and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.
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[edit] Setting
"Sometimes They Come Back" is set in Stratford High School in Stratford, Connecticut. The movie was actually filmed close to Rosedale Park in Kansas City, Kansas near 43rd Avenue and Mission Road where the main house is located and at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas on 24th and Minnesota. Scenes were also filmed in and around Rocheport, Missouri, and Liberty, Missouri.
[edit] Plot summary
Two brothers are walking to the library when they are attacked by a gang of local greasers. One brother is killed while the other gets away. Many years later, Jim, the survivor of the attack, takes a job as an English teacher at a high school. Students from his class are murdered and are replaced by students that resemble the greasers that attacked him years before.
As it turns out, the greasers were killed in a car accident after they attacked the boys. They have been brought back to life to finish their business with Jim. After they kill his wife, Jim uses a ritual to summon a demon (taking the form of his slain brother) to kill the greasers. Because he deals with the powers of darkness, things turn out less well than he had hoped. The ending implies that the forces he summoned to dispatch the greasers may also be just as sinister, and as difficult to get rid of as the greasers themselves were (the demon posing as his brother states "I'll be back, Jim").
[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
A TV movie adaptation aired in 1991, starring Tim Matheson and was followed by two sequels in 1996 and 1999. The adaptation was originally going to be part of the 1985 film, Cat's Eye (which included two other stories adapted from Night Shift, "The Ledge" and "Quitters, Inc"). However, producers thought the segment would do better on its own.
In the film adaptation, Jimmy's brother Wayne comes back to help after Mueller, one of the original greasers who had fled and survived, sacrifices himself, having heard his former friends state that somebody could come back when somebody else died. Jim's wife also does not die, and Wayne's return does not appear to be nearly as sinister, and in fact allows him a chance to gain closure and move on as a spirit.
The movie was filmed in Liberty, Missouri at the old Liberty high school and current Liberty Junior High School and at a old bridge on the south west side of town. It was also filmed in Kansas City, Kansas at Wyandotte High School because of the rumors of Wyadotte High School, the home of the Bulldogs, being rumored to be haunted.
[edit] External links
- Sometimes They Come Back at the Internet Movie Database
- Sometimes They Come Back… Again at the Internet Movie Database
- Sometimes They Come Back… for More at the Internet Movie Database
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