Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
Directed by Tom McLoughlin
high school
loss of loved one
bully
train
childhood
ghost
tunnel
suppressed memory
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Cast
Tim Matheson
Jim Norman
Brooke Adams
Sally Norman
Robert Rusler
Lawson
Chris Demetral
Wayne Norman
Robert Hy Gorman
Scott Norman
William Sanderson
Mueller
Nicholas Sadler
Vinnie
Bentley Mitchum
North
Matt Nolan
Billy
Tasia Valenza
Kate
Nancy McLoughlin
Dr. Bernardi
Don Ruffin
Young Mueller
Crew
Tom McLoughlin
Director
Lawrence Konner
Screenplay
Milton Subotsky
Co-Producer
Dino De Laurentiis
Executive Producer
Gabriel Bartalos
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rick Barker
Stunt Coordinator
Don Ruffin
Stunts
Rick Barker
Stunts
Stephen King
Short Story
Popular Reviews
29 reviews
The
6.0★ · 03/23/25
I understand why this doesn’t rank highly in the King oeuvre but this is such a Stephen King ass movie. It’s only missing a little more time with the townies. I think I have a fondness for it mostly because it taps into a fear I have of causing peoples’ deaths. You barely get enough to even sympathize with the students getting bumped off but they all get nasty ends just because they happened to be in the wrong class. Even the least sympathetic bro dude gets a particularly gruesome death that’s played off with a delightful casualness. A big challenge is taking the game of the short story and giving the audience enough space to wonder why these particular greasers are the only revenants to pierce the veil and with such a flimsy justification for their revenge seeking.
I understand why this doesn’t rank highly in the King oeuvre but this is such a Stephen King ass movie. It’s only missing a little more time with the townies. I think I have a fondness for it mostly because it taps into a fear I have of causing peoples’ deaths. You barely get enough to even sympathize with the students getting bumped off but they all get nasty ends just because they happened to be in the wrong class. Even the least sympathetic bro dude gets a particularly gruesome death that’s played off with a delightful casualness. A big challenge is taking the game of the short story and giving the audience enough space to wonder why these particular greasers are the only revenants to pierce the veil and with such a flimsy justification for their revenge seeking.
Cade
6.0★ · 02/27/25
This really makes me think that the book of this is either really bad or insanely good. It brings up a loooot of questions
This really makes me think that the book of this is either really bad or insanely good. It brings up a loooot of questions
Marley
4.0★ · 02/19/25
Once again, I will watch anything for Tim matheson. it’s an amazing premise with poor execution, and if there was ever a movie that should be remade it’s this one
Once again, I will watch anything for Tim matheson. it’s an amazing premise with poor execution, and if there was ever a movie that should be remade it’s this one
remy bryant
4.2★ · 01/04/25
i’m just a jock… i’m sorry… cuts deep… way too close to home 💔
i’m just a jock… i’m sorry… cuts deep… way too close to home 💔
angie
6.0★ · 08/21/24
not me falling in love with billy just for him to die 2 minutes later
not me falling in love with billy just for him to die 2 minutes later
