Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)

Powerful

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Having watched the excellent first film, (the first film will make you laugh and cry it is that good), and being a fan of Stephen King adaptions I was intrigued by the subsequent sequels, the trailer shows Hilary Swank looking goddamn beautiful, in a bedroom scene having sex with a demon type dude played by Alexis Arquette, this is the only part of the film that I found to be of any value.When she looks at the camera, right there in that 1 second, she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and she is quite cute throughout, she outshines and out acts everyone else in the film, so it is worth watching for her superior acting, though that is not saying much, cos all the other actors are so crap it is embarrassing, I won't add anything else because there is no depth.And the bit at the end where the guy has the loose electric cable and the demons, having already been killed that way years before, step into the same pool of water and stand there in the middle of it, waiting for him to touch the cable with it is just so amateur and awful it is just an insult to a viewers intelligence.I am off to find a girlfriend that looks like Hilary Swank in this film, wish me luck everyone.

Successful shrink, Jon Porter (Michael Gross of Family Ties and Tremors fame) is unexpectedly called back to his childhood home after his mother dies of mysterious causes with the intentions of paying his respects, selling the house and getting the hell out of dodge with his daughter (Hillary Swank who I'm sure doesn't keep this film on her resumé) but an assortment of ghostly teenagers have different plans.So much squandered talent between Swank, Gross, and the fat kid from The Sandlot trapped in an awful script that makes the first film (of which this only shares a title and tenacious source material with) look like fillet mignonette to this ones week-old hamburger that someone fished out of a particularly pungent dumpster. Bad acting, horrible special effects, and just all-around godawful. Skip it.My Grade: D-Eye Candy: Leslie Danon and Jennifer Aspen get briefly topless

This is one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. It may have been direct to video, but it was theater worthy. It has everything a great horror movie needs: a great plot, the wonderful and chilling music, the great acting, the amazing death sequences, and the villain Tony Reno (Alexis Arquette) gives the movie life. It deserves higher than viewers give it. If it were up to me, i'd put it in the top 250.The first film is good, but it was too happy for me. The third is good, but really should have been a stand alone film. This is a more accurate version of King's story, including a ritual from the story that never made it into the first film.If you want a good horror film, watch this. You'll be happy you did.

Sometimes They Come Back...Again is better than the original in some parts, but it is also worse. The flashbacks that appear throughout the movie are interesting and leak out information about the main character's past bit by bit. There are some good characters. My two favorites are the main villain, Tony (Alexis Arquette) who is very creepy, and Father Archer Roberts, a mysterious priest who the main character seeks help from. (Father Roberts is played by William Morgan Sheppard, who also had a similar role in Zork Nemesis, a cinematic computer game that also has a very somber, creepy mood. Check it out) The story is similar to the first movie, Jon Porter (Michael Gross) moves back to his hometown with his daughter after his mother dies. When he gets back, three demons from his past come back to terrorize him and his daughter. I smiled when several references were made to the original movie. Stephen King had put a demon raising ritual, in which you must cut off a finger, in his short story and it didn't make it for the first film, but this part of the story ...came back.. for the sequel. With all that the movie had a great, creepy mood to it, but unfortunately it begins to feel like a slasher movie, with a few characters dying miserably. That's the only element of this movie I don't like. Two characters died horribly on-screen, crying and screaming. In my opinion, that was a little inapropriate but, oh well. This movie is still good for any fan of the original movie.