Laikals
The greatest movie ever made..!
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Yronimos Whateley
OK, the comparisons to "The Thing" are obvious, so I'll try something a little different.This is more like "Event Horizon"... ON EARTH! And, if you saw the flawed but still much, much better "Event Horizon" (space ship travels to Eldritch Dimension, returns haunted, and its surviving demonic crew-member kills a salvage team off one by one between eerie flashbacks and hallucinations), there's going to be no surprises here.No surprises, except for how weak this this similar film is in comparison, even for a "Stephen King" film. (Of course it's only using King's name to ride his coat-tails into a little more cash, but does it really matter? The name of Stephen King is everywhere on the bread-and-butter of bad horror film, whether King can be fairly blamed for the film or not.) I reluctantly give this turkey 2/10 stars because, as others noted, it does start out with some weak promise of competence, though it quickly starts to lose what little tension it started with about the time the silly book "Raising Demons" first appears, and it ends feeling silly and uninspired.If you are really desperately needing to see a Stephen King film with snow and ice in it, try either version of "The Shining" instead.If you are wanting to see small group of people inject themselves into a remote location where demonic horror has invaded and reigns supreme, you'd be better off seeing "Event Horizon" or "The Evil Dead" series of films instead: these are much better films which seem like fairly obvious sources of ideas for this film.If you are really in the mood for a horror film set in a polar wasteland, see any version of "The Thing", or see "30 Days of Night" instead.If you are just in the mood for a bad horror film that still manages a few redeeming qualities, try "The Dark" or "Darkness" instead.This film, however, is ultimately only going to be of interest to fans of the other "Sometimes They Come Back" films, and it would be of limited interest even then.
idiotboy
As everyone seems to indicate, the beginning of this very strongly smelled of The Thing, but once people started turning up not-dead-anymore the smell went bad.This was only a sequel to the second of the "Sometimes They Come Back" films, by way of the demonic characters wandering about in it. Those who have seen it will probably be aware that the original movie in this 'trilogy' had nothing to do with demons coming to Earth, unless you consider the ghostly bullies being sent Hellwards at the end demonic. But the film makers did try to make this one fit in with the franchise by inserting, at around 44 minutes, the names of the leading characters from the other two films (Jim Norman and John Porter) on the pentagrammed-up map of the demonic world. Nice try, but it's a bit of a weak connection.Plus the whole movie ends up generally ruined by curious spacial continuity (eg. Demons run faster than elevators), general predictability (guess where the ring ends up), unfortunate acting ("Oh my, I can't go on" *collapse* (to be fair, that must have been in the script)) and a dire ending. And, as has been noted by others, Leeta was a much better female lead than Ms Faith Ford. Sorry, I meant Chase Masterson, not Leeta... Silly me.Don't avoid this movie. Just be aware you might not enjoy it...
slayrrr666
"Sometimes They Come Back...For More" is a really underrated entry in the series.**SPOILERS**After losing contact, Captain Sam Cage, (Clayton Rohner) and Major Callie O'Grady, (Chase Masterson) arrive at the Antarctic research station Erebus and look into the facility. Only able to find Dr. Jennifer Wells, (Faith Ford) and Lieutenant Shebanski, (Max Perlich) they tell them what happened to the rest of the crew at the station. Bunkered down for the night, the frozen bodies of the dead members start disappearing and when they reappear, they attacked the remaining survivors and slowly whittle down the group. Trying to find out what has happened, they find that a cult of Devil worshipers are at the base and using it as a launching pad to bring an ancient demon back to life. Forced to defend themselves against the remaining crew, they try to get it under control before the cult is able to complete it's mission.The Good News: This one here isn't all that bad when it gets going. Once this gets going at the end, it has a lot to offer it. There's a really spectacular section where the action is seen through the eyes of a remote-controlled camera car running through the facility, which features a couple really nice stunts and several suspenseful moments, especially when it comes down to the sequence where they discover the Satanic Altar. That is a really creepy scene that gets some good points going for it, and it ends with the film's one true jump scene. That soon leads into a really great brawl that gets in some pretty nice fighting. It flows along nicely and has some fun along the way. There's even some really great deaths as the result of the this, including some really gory gunshots, a pickax in the chest, speared through the back with a harpoon, stabbed in the back with a huge butcher knife and there's even a few who get frozen solid. These here are all quite fun, and get the film going along nicely. It even manages to get in some outstanding creepy scenes before the film gets going. The big one is a chilling scene where footsteps are heard overhead and they are forced to follow it from below using only the sounds made, and from there it soon becomes apparent that there's someone out there, only it's unknown at the point what it is. Several of the body disappearances do work, and the mystery about what's going on at the place is handled quite well. This one is pretty creepy at times and is a really nice plus for the film as well.The Bad News: This one doesn't have a lot of problems, but instead has a couple of really big flaws. One is that this one really comes across as a low-concept remake of another, really easily noticeable classic in the genre. From the Arctic location, the cast who don't get along and the mysteriously disappearing and then reanimated later are all quite easily ones to be found in here. This here really makes the film feel really unoriginal and it makes the film feel really cheap, which is the film's other big flaw. There's never an opportunity where this one doesn't feel like a giant underground station, or even a sense of space here. It feels way too cramped in, and this hardly looks like a place where a lot of people could've been stationed in with much of a sense that it's there for everyone. The cheapness extends to several other big areas, and really does make this one feel like a big flaw at times. The last flaw is that there's hardly any need for the back-story of the film. It takes away from the flow and momentum it has and becomes distracting. Otherwise, there isn't much wrong with it.The Final Verdict: Even though this one isn't anywhere near original and comes off as a clone of another film, this is still a rewarding experience at times. Really recommended to those who enjoyed the others, while those aren't that big on these kind will probably find this one to be quite painful to sit through.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity
Jack the Ripper1888
**If you don't want the movie to be ruined for you, I would skip my review**Now, this is a messed up movie if I ever did see one. And if a movie was ever confused, this was the movie! This film can never seem to decide what it wants to be.The whole things starts out good as an action adventure turned horror movie. There are actually some genuine chills that may surprise several people who are interested enough in it. I was into it enough that I was hoping not to be let down a movie for once. But, no. It didn't happen. After about 45 minutes, the whole thing turns into crap. After that, it becomes somewhat of a killer zombie movie where the dead people have come back to life and stuff. So, we are with that scenario for about fifteen minutes, and then we enter the scenario of "raising the devil and trying to stop the satanists" plot. The whole thing was fine with the scary action adventure and I was even okay with the whole zombie thing, but after it switched themes for a third time, that was it. And then it got all stupid with the love story and the Devil guy and then somebody turns out to have hidden secrets and the whole thing just turns itself into a mess.Don't get me wrong, there were some good parts to this film, like the good beginning, and the half hour or so that followed it, but after that I was just begging for this crap to end! I would start watching it and then shut it off as soon as you start to get disappointed and then use your imagination to finish the movie. Oh, and if you're thinking about seeing this because it has the great name of Stephen King on the cover, don't bother. There's nothing here to even do with king other than the name in the title of "Sometimes they come back...". Skip this one if you don't want to be more utterly disappointed than you ever have been in your life.SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE gets 1/5.