Review: Sometimes They Come Back Again 1996

By far, the best of the trilogy, “Sometimes They Come Back Again” is the sequel to a movie that was based on a short story by Stephen King. Personally, I didn’t care for the first film (“Sometimes They Come Back”) but I really enjoyed the sequel.
The sequel continues Stephen King’s concept from the first film, with new characters and a somewhat different story. The acting in “Sometimes They Come Back Again” is infinitely superior to the first film, in fact, this film features a young Hilary Swank! But the true star of the movie is Alexis Arquette as the ultimate sick, twisted, demonic villain, Tony Reno! She was amazing in the role (and I just found out she actually passed away very recently…:( This film was clearly before her transition, but even playing a guy, she was just phenomenal!), she just injected an amazing dark but wacky energy into every scene, the film would have truly been nothing without her.
“Sometimes They Come Back Again” focuses on a man, Jon Porter, who is brought back to his childhood home when his mother dies. When he was a boy, his sister was murdered by a group of teen-aged boys performing a demonic ritual and now that he’s back in his hometown, where it all happened, all those memories are coming back to haunt him.. but that’s not all that’s come back. Jon brings his teen-aged daughter along to help him get the house all packed up, and she meets an interesting boy (Alexis Arquette!) and they really seem to ‘hit it off’…until her father meets him and recognizes him as the leader of the group of boys who killed his sister… he hasn’t aged a day and he has very sinister intentions with Jon’s daughter.
Alexis Arquette absolutely made this movie brilliant, no question, but this film also featured more gore and took a more dark-comedic approach than the first film, which also made it a much more entertaining film. I really liked this film and in memory of a wonderful actress, gone too soon, I recommend it to the masses, for her brilliant performance, if for nothing else.