The Town That Dreaded Sundown

1976 rare horror/drama movie

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• short
• film
• the
• town
• that
• dreaded
• sundown
• scary
• 1976
• trailer
• horror
• phantom
• killer
• texarkana
• 1946
• true

[shiradomazuki12345]

the killer (real guy) is dead

[iluv80shorror]

i know he is dead thats why i said at the end Documentary made in 1976......the 1976 movie was based on the murders in 1946...also in the trailer it said that he was between 30 and 40 in 1946............imagine how old he would be if he was still alive now

[jjp009]

iluv80shorror: I am struggling so hard to remember the scene I am looking for in this movie (I'm amazed I found the title, but I remember it had Mary Ann from Gilligian's Island in it). I think it involves a trombone with a knife taped to the end of the slide and the killer stabbing Mary Ann while playing it. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Do you know what I'm talking about and is that here on YouTube somewhere? Thanks you.

[iluv80shorror]

Yeah, i remember seeing that scene in the movie!!!!!!! i'm not to sure that they have it on youtube though.

[Lululovesmedia]

Dawn Wells wasn't used in that scene. It was a local Texarkana girl. They used a lot of locals in the movie. We were very proud of our "stars."

[jezebel03rmk]

Been living in Texarkana, AR since '99. This movie still gives me the creeps!

[ragemanchoo82]

@ragemanchoo82 Are they on facebook or youtube? :D

[sheilaboy44]

@ragemanchoo82 We need to start a petition....thats how we are going to get this on DVD!!! Thats how some movies have been put on dvd like, Dark Night Of The Scarecrow...we should try by writing to Rue Morgue Magazine, they listen to the fans!

[ragemanchoo82]

When is this going to be put on DVD? It either needs a GOOD film treatment (read: The Changeling [title with Angelina Jolie not George C. Scott], The Silence of the Lambs, The Cell, etc), or to be issued on DVD.

[manzathaking]

THIS MOVIE IS CLASSIC!! HAVE IT ON VHS

CHEERS FROM SWEDEN

[ChrisinEC]

@jjp009 That wasn't Mary Ann gettin' stabbed with the trombone/knife thing. Mary Ann gets shot and escapes at the end.........

[Waszma]

@jjp009 LOL...I know what you mean man. I had serious doubts about myself after watching that scene because I laughed my ass off too. A killer with a sense of humor. Actually he din't die. He surfaced a couple of years ago in a movie with Liv Tyler. He had a crew this time around.

[TheGhostory]

the 'phantom' may have never been captured & seemed to have sunk into obscurity as quick as he appeared he seemed to have disappeared!but judging from the manner of his sadistic killing he may have served in some war & was traumatized or emotional disturbed by the cruel war treatment towards the enemy and henceforth applied them to his victims.the best scene is the freight train when morales manages to get a clear clean shot as bullets richocet of train & track!undoubtedly a great thriller...