Sometimes They Come back ( film ) - wikipedia Sometimes They Come back ( film ) Sometimes They Come Back Genre Horror, thriller, drama Based on Sometimes They Come Back ( short story ) by Stephen King Written by Stephen King ( short story ) Lawrence Konner Mark Rosenthal ( teleplay ) Directed by Tom McLoughlin Starring Tim Matheson Brooke Adams Robert Rusler Theme music composer Terry Plumeri Country of origin United States Original language ( s ) English Production Producer ( s ) Dino De Laurentiis Michael S. Murphey Cinematography Bryan England Editor ( s ) Charles Bornstein Running time 97 minutes Release Original network CBS Original release 1991 Chronology Followed by Sometimes They Come Back... Again Sometimes They Come Back is a 1991 made - for - TV horror film based on the short story of the same title by Stephen King. Originally optioned as a segment of the feature film Stephen King 's Cat 's Eye, producer Dino De Laurentiis developed it into a separate feature instead. Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 3 Production notes 4 Reception 5 Sequels 6 References 7 External links Synopsis Jim Norman, 36, a high school history teacher, moves back to his old hometown after accepting a teaching job there. He moved from the town after he witnessed his brother, Wayne, murdered by a gang of greasers in 1963. The murderers themselves were killed shortly afterwards by an oncoming train, having parked on the tracks. Jim has nightmares about his brother 's murder as he starts teaching in the town. Students that are close to him start to be involved in various accidents that look like suicides. One by one, students are slain so the greasers, disguised as living teens, can return to class. The greasers plan to kill Jim the same way they murdered Wayne to keep themselves out of Hell. They intend to have a child witness the event, leading them to try to kidnap Jim 's son Scott. Jim finds out that there is a way to let his own brother return. The gang also needs the remaining living member of their gang, Carl Mueller, who left before the train struck. Jim finds Carl, who panics, thinking Jim wants revenge. He runs back to town, fulfilling the gang 's plan for a reunion. The gang harasses Jim 's family to ensure Jim 's compliance in reenacting the murder. After the gang releases the family, Jim hides them inside a church, which the demonic gang can not enter. Jim tries to bring his brother back in the church 's graveyard as the gang lures his wife and son outside and hold them hostage. Jim finds that something is blocking Wayne 's return, and must cooperate with the thugs in reenacting the murder. It also reveals that when Jim was a boy, Jim took the murderers ' car keys that lead to their deaths. He returns to the train tunnel in which the first murder took place, though both he and Carl change their dialogue and actions from those taken 27 years before. Frustrated, the gang leader stabs Carl, which allows Wayne to come back. Wayne distracts the gang while Jim gets his family out of the gang 's car. Jim gave the gang back their car keys. The gang tries to escape in their car, only to have it struck by a ghost train that resembles the one that killed them years ago, which sends them back to Hell. Wayne offers to have Jim come with him to the afterlife, which Jim refuses. Wayne says he can move on to heaven and see his parents because the greasers are no longer a threat. Wayne goes back to the afterlife as Jim 's family heads home. Cast Tim Matheson as Jim Norman Brooke Adams as Sally Norman Chris Demetral as Wayne Norman Robert Rusler as Richard Lawson Robert Hy Gorman as Scott Norman Nicholas Sadler as Vinnie Vincent Bentley Mitchum as David North William Sanderson as Carl Mueller Chadd Nyerges as Chip Tasia Valenza as Kate Matt Nolan as Billy Sterns William Kuhlke as Principal Simmons Production notes The original short story, `` Sometimes They Come Back '', is set in Stratford High School in Stratford, Connecticut. The film adaptation was filmed in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. The locomotive used as the ghost train in the film was Southern Pacific 5021. Reception Ray Loynd of the Los Angeles Times called it `` a tight, moody work ''. TV Guide rated it 2 / 5 stars and wrote, `` The solid cast ca n't lift the material above the routine. '' Sequels The TV film was followed by straight - to - video sequels in 1996 ( Sometimes They Come Back... Again ) and 1998 ( Sometimes They Come Back... for More ). References Jump up ^ Wixson, Heather ( 2015 - 10 - 24 ). `` Stephen King Week : Robert Rusler Reflects on SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK ''. Daily Dead. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 07. Jump up ^ Loynd, Ray ( 1991 - 05 - 07 ). `` TV Reviews : Teen - Agers Come Back From the Dead to Torment History Teacher ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 07. Jump up ^ `` Stephen King 's Sometimes They Come Back ''. TV Guide. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 07. External links Sometimes They Come Back on IMDb Sometimes They Come Back at AllMovie Sometimes They Come Back at Rotten Tomatoes Adaptations of works by Stephen King Films The Shining ( 1980 ) Cujo ( 1983 ) The Dead Zone ( 1983 ) Christine ( 1983 ) Cat 's Eye ( 1985 ) Silver Bullet ( 1985 ) The Running Man ( 1987 ) Tales from the Darkside : The Movie ( 1990 ) Graveyard Shift ( 1990 ) Misery ( 1990 ) Sleepwalkers ( 1992 ) Needful Things ( 1993 ) The Dark Half ( 1993 ) Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ) Thinner ( 1996 ) The Night Flier ( 1997 ) The Green Mile ( 1999 ) Hearts in Atlantis ( 2001 ) Dreamcatcher ( 2003 ) Secret Window ( 2004 ) Riding the Bullet ( 2004 ) 1408 ( 2007 ) The Mist ( 2007 ) Dolan 's Cadillac ( 2009 ) A Good Marriage ( 2014 ) Mercy ( 2014 ) Cell ( 2016 ) The Dark Tower ( 2017 ) It ( 2017 ) Gerald 's Game ( 2017 ) Carrie Carrie ( 1976 ) The Rage : Carrie 2 ( 1999 ) Carrie ( 2002 ) Carrie ( 2013 ) Creepshow Creepshow ( 1982 ) Creepshow 2 ( 1987 ) Creepshow 3 ( 2007 ) Children of the Corn Disciples of the Crow ( 1983 ) Children of the Corn ( 1984 ) The Final Sacrifice ( 1992 ) Urban Harvest ( 1995 ) The Gathering ( 1996 ) Fields of Terror ( 1998 ) Isaac 's Return ( 1999 ) Revelation ( 2001 ) Children of the Corn ( 2009 ) Genesis ( 2011 ) Different Seasons Stand by Me ( 1986 ) The Shawshank Redemption ( 1994 ) Apt Pupil ( 1998 ) Firestarter Firestarter ( 1984 ) Rekindled ( 2002 ) Trucks Maximum Overdrive ( 1986 ) Trucks ( 1997 ) Pet Sematary Pet Sematary ( 1989 ) Pet Sematary Two ( 1992 ) The Mangler The Mangler ( 1995 ) The Mangler 2 ( 2002 ) The Mangler Reborn ( 2005 ) The Lawnmower Man The Lawnmower Man ( 1992 ) Beyond Cyberspace ( 1996 ) TV films, episodes, and miniseries `` Gramma '' ( 1986 ) `` Sorry, Right Number '' ( 1987 ) It ( 1990 ) The Tommyknockers ( 1993 ) The Stand ( 1994 ) The Langoliers ( 1995 ) The Shining ( 1997 ) Quicksilver Highway ( 1997 ) `` The Revelations of Becka Paulson '' ( 1997 ) Storm of the Century ( 1999 ) Stephen King 's Desperation ( 2006 ) Nightmares & Dreamscapes : From the Stories of Stephen King ( 2006 ) Bag of Bones ( 2011 ) Big Driver ( 2014 ) Salem 's Lot Salem 's Lot ( 1979 ) A Return to Salem 's Lot ( 1987 ) Salem 's Lot ( 2004 ) Sometimes They Come Back Sometimes They Come Back ( 1991 ) Sometimes They Come Back... Again ( 1996 ) Sometimes They Come Back... for More ( 1998 ) Rose Red Rose Red ( 2002 ) The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer ( 2003 ) TV series Golden Years ( 1991 ) The Dead Zone ( 2002 -- 2007 ) Kingdom Hospital ( 2004 ) Haven ( 2010 -- 2015 ) Under the Dome ( 2013 -- 2015 ) 11.22. 63 ( 2016 ) The Mist ( 2017 -- present ) Mr. Mercedes ( 2017 ) Castle Rock ( TBA ) Book Films directed by Tom McLoughlin One Dark Night ( 1983 ) Friday the 13th Part VI : Jason Lives ( 1986 ) Date with an Angel ( 1987 ) Sometimes They Come Back ( 1991 ) Something to Live for : The Alison Gertz Story ( 1992 ) Anya 's Bell ( 1999 ) The Unsaid ( 2001 ) Murder in Greenwich ( 2002 ) D.C. Sniper : 23 Days of Fear ( 2003 ) She 's Too Young ( 2004 ) Odd Girl Out ( 2005 ) Cyber Seduction : His Secret Life ( 2005 ) Not Like Everyone Else ( 2006 ) The Staircase Murders ( 2007 ) Fab Five : The Texas Cheerleader Scandal ( 2008 ) At Risk ( 2010 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sometimes_They_Come_Back_(film)&oldid=800184694 '' Categories : American television films Television programs based on works by Stephen King 1991 television films American horror films American films Films directed by Tom McLoughlin Horror television films CBS network films 1991 horror films 1991 films Demons in film Films shot in Missouri Films produced by Dino De Laurentiis Hidden categories : Pages using infobox television with editor parameter All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from August 2013 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Emiliàn e rumagnòl Español Français Italiano Nederlands 日本 語 Português Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 11 September 2017, at 23 : 57. 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Question: who played wayne in sometimes they come back
Answer: Chris Demetral