Since the dawn of genre cinema, horror movies have been thrilling audiences with gruesome death scenes at the hands of monsters and madmen. Over time, filmmakers even came up with the Slasher subgenre to thrill bloodthirsty audiences with a specific hunger for over-the-top simulated murder. Of course, some of these cinematic deaths were bound to […]
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As the audience sat in a Texarkana movie theater on December 17, 1976, listening to the click of the projector and the anxious breathing of their fellow filmgoers, they were treated to a chilling introduction. The text that preceded the horrors sure to follow promised: “the incredible story you are about to see is true, […]
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Through my “Revenge of the Remakes” odyssey — today’s marks lucky number 20 — there haven’t been many disparities in quality like that between Alfonso Gomez-Rejon‘s and Charles B. Pierce‘s The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Pierce’s 1976 original adapts 1946’s Texarkana Moonlight Murders as a 40’s crime thriller that’s hokey, tonally abysmal, and dull with […]
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