Grindhouse
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
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.
- Director
- Charles B. Pierce
- Writer
- Written by Earl E. Smith
- Starring
- Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells
- Year
- 1976
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 90 minutes
The Evictors
It was a small Louisiana town where people live and love and die, and no one ever thought of locking their doors… except in the Monroe house. From The Town That Dreaded Sundown director Charles B. Pierce comes another “based on true events” docudrama of Southern terror – The Evictors. When a young couple (Michael Parks and Suspiria’s Jessica Harper) moves into a quaint old farmhouse, their real estate agent (Vic Morrow) conveniently neglects to tell them about their new home’s blood-spattered past. But as things start to go bump in the night, is it supernatural or something even more sinister?
- Director
- Charles B. Pierce
- Writer
- Written by Charles B. Pierce and Garry Rusoff and Paul Fisk
- Starring
- Michael Parks, Jessica Harper, Vic Morrow, Sue Ane Langdon
- Year
- 1979
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 92 minutes