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      The Town That Dreaded Sundown

      R Released Dec 24, 1976 1h 30m Mystery & Thriller Crime Drama List
      42% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 40% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A hooded madman stalks the lovers' lanes of Texarkana in this fact-based account of a 1946 killing spree. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 04 Buy Now

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      Vincent Canby New York Times A couple of professional actors, Ben Johnson and Andrew Prine, head the cast, but the film looks nonprofessional in evey other respect. May 9, 2005 Full Review Ruth Batchelor Los Angeles Free Press We are told from the beginning that this is a true story. So I want to give a true opinion: it stinks. Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Jean Hoelscher Gannett News Service The Town That Dreaded Sundown achieves good excitement much of the time, but it could have been a lot stronger with better dramatic involvement. Jul 9, 2019 Full Review TV Guide Staff TV Guide Despite the intriguing premise, Pierce is a stupifyingly unimaginative director, and the film is incredibly dull. Rated: 1/5 Sep 26, 2018 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed A spooky dramatization of actual events, but in the end it feels like a docudrama more than a horror film. Dec 2, 2013 Full Review John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Uses simple period detail and underpopulated settings to convey an anti-Mayberry notion of the South as a place haunted by unsolved, unavenged murder -- an idea that ties this fact-based tale to the genuine horror of the region's civil rights murders. Rated: 2.5/4 Jul 12, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Alec B The concept has a lot of promise. Even setting aside the horror, there's so much to explore in how communities react to danger. Unfortunately all you get are sub par genre thrills. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/05/24 Full Review KerryWhite's S 7/10. 70/100. | Okay I did NOT expect it to be that funny 😆 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/12/23 Full Review Valerii Ege D I wanted to watch this movie so bad. But I am a bit disappointed. Killer sequences are what I was expecting, like Boston Strangler, but other parts, big no. Now I need to watch the 2014 version. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/22/23 Full Review farah r Despite claiming to be based on a true story, the film is not sophisticated and doesn't take its source material seriously. The Town That Dreaded Sundown is stuck between being a bad horror movie and a boring thriller. The events unfold at a painstakingly slow pace and it amounts to nothing as the ending was mighty disappointing. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review justin t This didn't really do anything for me. I could see how people would be scared by the film but I think that it was just lacking something. It was made before graphic violence was popular in the eighties in death scenes and the suspense was unimpressive. Basically don't really bother. It was a good film but many better films have come since. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Director Charles B. Pierce fumbles with the material. Worth watching for as a curiosity piece. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A hooded madman stalks the lovers' lanes of Texarkana in this fact-based account of a 1946 killing spree.
      Director
      Charles B. Pierce
      Producer
      Samuel Z. Arkoff
      Screenwriter
      Earl E. Smith
      Distributor
      American International Pictures
      Production Co
      American International Pictures (AIP)
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 24, 1976, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 17, 2014
      Runtime
      1h 30m
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