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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 2014 American slasher film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The film serves as a metafictional sequel to the 1976 film of the same name. It stars Addison Timlin, Travis Tope, Spencer Treat Clark, Veronica Cartwright and Gary Cole and was one of the last films of Ed Lauter and Edward Herrmann before their deaths in October 2013 and December 2014, respectively.
Plot
A drive-in theater in the city of Texarkana, Arkansas hosts the Halloween annual showing of The Town That Dreaded Sundown, the 1976 film based on the Phantom Killer responsible for several murders in Texarkana in 1946. After lovers Corey Holland and Jami Lerner leave the theater, the Phantom kills Corey and tells Jami "This is for Mary. Make them remember."
More details
| author | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa |
|---|---|
| director | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon |
| editor | Joe Leonard |
| genre | crime horror mystery thriller |
| keywords | attack california charles b. pierce christmas eve end gas station kill lone wolf phantom jam phantom killer police escort stalk texarkana moonlight murders texas ranger texas ranger division thanksgiving the town that dreaded sundown train station trap want |
| musicBy | Ludwig Göransson |
| producer | Jason Blum Ryan Murphy |
| publisher | Orion Pictures |
| theme | serial killer slasher |