Tag: the town that dreaded sundown

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.  Written by Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa.  Starring Addison Timlin, Spencer Treat Clark, Anthony Anderson, Joshua Leonard, Veronica Cartwright, Gary Cole and Edward Herrmann. Plot: decades after the Phantom murders in Texarkana, someone starts killing again with the same M.O. paying particularly stalky attention to one teenage girl. In 2013, on Halloween, a masked … Continue reading The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) →

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Directed by Charles S. Pierce.  Written by Earl E. Smith.  Starring Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Jim Citty, Robert Aquino, Charles S. Pierce and Earl E. Smith. Plot: loosely based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946. People begin being attacked by a hooded man.  The police tell people to stay in … Continue reading The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) →