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The Town that Dreaded Sundown is a 1976[1], R-rated horror film directed by (and co-starring) Charles B. Pierce. It is based on the Phantom Killer, who murdered five people in the 1940s in the city of Texarkana, Texas, at Spring Lake Park and was never caught. The film is presented similarly to Unsolved Mysteries, with a narrator dictating the actions as they are shown. Ben Johnson stars as the law-enforcement officer attempting to catch the killer. Dawn Wells (Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island) appears as one of the victims. Although the movie claims only the names have been changed , much of the film is fabricated from the real events.
The movie is p"The Town That Dreaded Sundownl" which was release in 1976 and directed by Charles B. Pierce. After hearing about this movie from my aunt, my mission was to find the movie at all costs! After a few months of looking and searching, I was able to get my hands on a bootlegged DVD. (I do not condone pirating movies, but I had to see this film.)
lfd: You said all you young ones don't know crap about horror movies. I don't know if I am considered a young one since I am 34, however I have to disagree with you on one point you made. You said you can't compare todays scary movies to ones made 30 years ago. Well, how about we compare this to a movie from 1973. The Town that Dreaded Sunday was made in 1976 which is 3 year after The Exorcist yet three years earlier, the Exorcist was head an shoulders above the nonse called The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The Exorcist was scarier, more ominous and a million times better acting.
More schizophrenic but no less engaging is Charles B. Pierce ’s 1976 film, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a Dragnet-style police procedural posing as a horror film in which the heinous acts of a hooded serial killer known as “The Phantomm” permanently destroy the safety in Texarkana, TX. The film begins with an omniscient voice-over describing the small town as one “re-gearing for peace,o” with soldiers returning home, children at play, and economic prosperity on the rise despite the influx of union strikes and fears about communism. This seemingly benign setting suddenly bursts into violence when a young couple (sitting in their car, naturally, at a remote lovers lane) gets brutally attacked by the hooded figure, initiating an unsettling series of tonal shifts that will recur throughout the film. Because Pierce often jumps from one genre to the next, the occasional employment of horror tropes amplify the narrative
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