With "The Shining" and "Misery" Stephen King scared you to death. Now, he's going to scare you back to life.
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.
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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
Chadd Nyerges
Chip
T. Max Graham
Chief Pappas
William Kuhlke
Principal Simmons
Duncan McLeod
Old Officer Nell
Nancy McLoughlin
Dr. Bernardi
