The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Name: The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: December 24, 1976
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Andrew Prine, Ben Johnson, Charles B. Pierce, Christine Ellsworth, Cindy Butler

1976

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American International Pictures (AIP) | Release Date: December 24, 1976 | R

Starring: Andrew Prine, Ben Johnson, Charles B. Pierce, Christine Ellsworth, Cindy Butler, Dawn Wells, Earl E. Smith, Jim Citty, Jimmy Clem, Robert Aquino

Summary: In 1946, a hooded serial killer terrorizes the residents of a small Arkansas town.

Director: Charles B. Pierce

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Katie Rife

An overlooked gem in the annals of low-budget horror. Read full review

IndieWire Drew Taylor

A minor cult classic that cast a long shadow. Its cinema verite aesthetic, which combined deadpan narration, publicly available music cues, and chilling reenactments, created a kind of true crime sensationalism that would be borrowed by everything from Unsolved Mysteries to the current found footage horror craze. Read full review

Vincent Canby

A couple of professional actors, Ben Johnson and Andrew Prine, head the cast, but the film looks nonprofessional in every other respect. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Despite the intriguing premise, Pierce is a stupifyingly unimaginative director, and the film is incredibly dull. Read full review

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Computey18

Dec 24, 2022

A Decent Slasher Movie that is "Based on True Events" Even though some parts are very fictionalized.

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HellHoleHorror

Feb 15, 2022

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 aThis 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.… Expand

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