This movie is about the Phantom Killer, a serial killer in a small town in America in the forties murdering people once a month and then disappearing, and about a police crew trying to catch him. It is based on a true story of the moonshine murders that happened in the forties in Texarkana.
I watched the remake of The Town That Dreaded Sundown in cinema and while watching I really wanted to see the original. If you didn't know, the remake is actually more of a sequel you could say, it's set in 2014 I think and this movie is playing in drive in theaters every year. So they decided to actually repeat this movie while every now and then splicing it up with scenes from the original.
And to be honest, both are pretty similar, but in my opinion, the remake was even better. Maybe a part of me is judging it like that because of course the remake is much more polished, but all in all it's pretty much the same movie. I had nothing sticking out to me in this movie, nothing that gripped me and I think I actually took a break during the movie to do other stuff.
That being said, the movie is totally watchable. The story is interesting. The kills are pretty well done. The acting could be better but whatever.
Still, my view is tainted by having seen the remake first and I just couldn't appreciate it as much as I would have liked to.
Also, I would have enjoyed the trombone kill much more if he actually made sounds with the trombone instead of just stabbing her with the knife around the trombone.
All in all, to me this was a pretty average movie, so I'm giving it the average rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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