The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

The Bummer Boys dread The Town That Dreaded Sundown in this week's episode as they tackle the slasher movie's 1976 and 2014 versions. Is his name Bag Head? What in the world is with the slapstick humor in the original horror slasher film? Does the new reimagining of the source material redeem the franchise? What sort of influence did Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story have on the small town of Texarkana, and its stories true crime roots? All that and more in this week's horror movie retrospective episode!

 

The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 2014 American slasher film and serves as a metafictional sequel to the 1976 film of the same name. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon in his feature-length directorial debut, the film was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and produced by Jason Blum and Ryan Murphy. The film stars Addison Timlin, Travis Tope, Spencer Treat Clark, Veronica Cartwright and Gary Cole and was one of the last films of Ed Lauter and Edward Herrmann before their deaths in October 2013 and December 2014, respectively.^[3][4][5]