The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014) on Netflix
R20141h 26mHorrorMysteryThriller
Jami Lerner and Corey Holland take in a Texarkana Halloween screening of the 1976 film about the Phantom Killer. The Phantom attacks them, and a call tells Jami to make them remember.
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Plot summary
In Texarkana, the local drive-in holds its annual Halloween showing of the 1976 movie about the Phantom Killer, and Jami Lerner and Corey Holland are in the audience. The Phantom attacks them at a secluded spot, and Jami makes her way back to the drive-in, where she collapses. Police question her at the hospital the next morning. That night she and her grandmother Lillian watch the news, and Jami asks what Lillian remembers of the original crimes. The Phantom then calls Jami from Corey's phone and warns her that the killings will continue until the town remembers. Jami tells her police escort, Deputy Foster. Residents barricade their homes and hold a town meeting, and Texas Ranger Lone Wolf Morales leads the investigation. Jami keeps researching at the City Hall archives, where Nick helps her.
Cast
- Andy Abeleas Sackhead
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Though the film is set in Texarkana, most of it was shot in Shreveport, Louisiana, during a six-week shoot in mid-May 2013, with some locals recruited as extras. Only three days were filmed in Texarkana itself.
- The film began as a planned remake of the 1976 original but was reconceived as a metafictional sequel that reuses several elements and references from the earlier movie.
- Jason Blum said Ryan Murphy brought him the original film and pitched the remake, and that Blum's interest came from wanting to try something weird without a typical $20 million horror budget looming over it.
