The Town That Dreaded Sundown
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high school girl, with dark secrets of her own, may be the key to catching him.
15 November 1949, Dallas, Texas, USA
30 October 1938, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
19 October 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 November 1975, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
8 November 1983, Newark, New Jersey, USA
20 April 1949, Bristol, England, UK
21 June 1963, Sarasota, Florida, USA
31 December 1985, Arlington, Texas, USA
5 February 1965, New York City, New York, USA
13 July 1955, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 July 1985, Low Moor, Virginia, USA
February 6, 1982 in Tyler, Texas, USA
20 September 1956, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
April 16, 2015
Those who like their shivers served up with a spattering of grey matter should leave with a sunny disposition.
October 16, 2014
The 'American Horror Story' team remakes the cult 1976 slasher with gimmicky, mostly unscary results.
April 16, 2015
This is an exercise in nostalgia as much as bloodletting. The filmmakers are paying their very own tribute to teen-horror pics of the 1970s.
April 16, 2015
It's an odd, if somewhat original, way of playing with sequel conventions: the plot exists in a reality where the original film also exists. But outside of knowing winks, this is cookie cutter carnage.
April 16, 2015
Not a straight remake of the 1976 cult horror movie, The Town That Dreaded Sundown is more a self-referential homage that takes the original film's legacy and embellishes it.
April 13, 2015
A clever concept and stylish execution (in both senses) aren't quite enough to make this achingly meta remake/reboot/sequel stand out from the slasher pack.
March 02, 2016
While its tone wildly varies, when it comes to the glut of horror remakes, it's a slight step ahead of the standard batch.
April 16, 2015
A straightforward, slickly edited psycho-killer flick with moments of razor-sharp tension and a welcome appearance from Alien star Veronica Cartwright as Timlin's granny.
April 16, 2015
A film that bounds towards the cult appeal of those self-reflexive horror classics, but agonisingly doesn't quite stick the landing.
April 19, 2015
With its small-town atmospherics, a juicy supporting cast of character players, plus Addison Timlin's personable, plucky "final girl", this Town is pulled off with polished, enjoyable brashness ...
April 16, 2015
Clever enough, but forgets to be exciting.
April 20, 2015
Knowledge of the first film probably helps, but it's a nifty little genre experiment nonetheless.
