Sometimes They Come Back

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Bruce David Eisen, the third co-producer, who produced Leprechaun in the Hood, and Sometimes They Come Back for More.

Are you aware of Sometimes They Come Back?

I'm aware of that.

Three of them.

I don't know if that's the second or the third one.

I know that sometimes they come back, sometimes they come back for more, and sometimes they come back again.

I

He optioned some short stories from Stephen King in the late 70s.

He optioned the tales Quits Incorporated, The Ledge, and Sometimes They Come Back, all from the Night Shift story collection.

And he wanted to make another multi-tale movie.

Unfortunately, funding was difficult to acquire.

One final note from me.

I mentioned at the beginning that Sabotsky bought three stories from Night Shift and then sold them all on to Dino De Laurentiis.

The third of those stories, sometimes they come back.

That was made a few years after this as a TV film.

Creepshow 3 is an atrocity.

I did see Sometimes They Come Back.

Oh, I did.

That's a TV movie, I think.

And I did see,

I think I saw the sequel as well.

They made a sequel to Sometimes They Come Back.

Of course they did.

I was like, did I see a little bit of it? I couldn't remember exactly.

When I started this movie, I immediately was like, no, I did not see any of this movie because I immediately was like – it was one that was for me like exactly like you said i did not expect the like buddy comedy like it almost like i haven't seen after hours it's high on my list though so that's probably one i'm gonna try to get uh watched in november you know once we get past spooky season but uh but the vibe of you know robert rustler and the other guy which shout out the scream king robert rustler because between this sometimes they come back which honestly i was thinking about making it uh robert rustler double feature and going with sometimes they come back next just for something you know funny and unique but uh so maybe we'll do that as the next film but um and then of course he's in you know nightmare too but uh

and he's in weird science

yeah no i was just saying like the scream king stuff but

So join us on our next episode for that.

And then hopefully after that, we'll do something fun.

Maybe we'll do sometimes, or yeah, sometimes they come back after that and make it a Robert Ressler double feature.

It'll just be a little spread out, but yeah.

That was not great.

But you know what could be great? Sometimes they come back.

Sometimes they come back.

I chose this for our 13 days of Halloween.

This is a guilty pleasure of mine.

yep oh hell yeah definitely and it was shot in 30 days all

right originally this was intended for theatrical uh release and However, this movie did go direct to TV in the USA due to De Laurentiis Entertainment actually going bankrupt, which is shocking.

I didn't know that because De Laurentiis is... like up there in name recognition but that went bankrupt so it went direct to TV it was still shown theatrically over in Europe though through some local distributors the two loosely related sequels sometimes they come back dot dot dot again in 96 and sometimes they come back for more in 98 were direct to video from the outset I'm just going to let you know, Justin.

Rosemary's Baby, that was, wow, Roman Polanski, something very, very, uh, new when he did that, very frightening.

Uh, Sometimes They Come Back, written by Stephen King.

You know, here's one that we haven't talked about, and I got a funny story to go with it as we close it out.

The Shining by Stephen King.

But I love him.

Uh, dearest friend, great coolest guy ever, Tommy McLoughlin, who directed, uh, Sometimes They Come Back, the Stephen King movie.

Yeah.

Um, he's in this, but he also appeared in my other books too.

You don't just put characters like that in book after book after book.

Sometimes They Come Back is another example too, right? Christine, like he, he really had this fascination with the, let's call them dangerous youth.

We know about like those juvenile delinquent movies of the '50s, like Concrete Jungle and stuff like that.

Or was it Blackboard, uh, Jungle? But there is a- an idea that runs through those novels of how one character just gets beat upon and preyed upon, whether it's because they're weak or they're poor or they're of a different ethnicity.