A hooded killer terrorizes the moonlit streets of Texarkana, Arkansas and ‘70s genre staple Andrew Prine and cowboy star Ben Johnson are powerless to stop him. This ripped-from-the-headlines heart stopper was Charles B. Pierce’s terrifying follow-up to his smash hit The Legend of Boggy Creek. The legendary filmmaking personality could do it all: direct, act, produce & write. He came up with Dirty Harry’s signature line “go ahead, make my day” and was a set decorator on MacGyver. But The Town That Dreaded Sundown is his regional horror masterpiece, a haunting recreation of the brutal true-to-life, still-unsolved 1946 murders. Filmed on the actual blood-stained streets and using real Texarkana residents, the movie is a cold-hearted procedural, a nightmare-inducing proto-Unsolved Mysteries where an unhappy ending has already been assured.
