Gore N More Episode 1
Intro - Weekly Review
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) [Review]
Director - Charles B. Pierce
Who also co stars as a police officer named A.C. Benson “Sparkplug”
The film was shot around Texarkana and a bunch of locals were cast as extras
The movie premiered on December 17, 1976
The film runs around 90 minutes and is revered as one of the first slasher films
It had a production budget of $400,000 and earned about 5 million domestically
The film is based on the the “Phantom Killer” crimes that happened in 1946
The Phantom attacked 8 people in the town of Texarkana, Texas
The killer was never identified or apprehended
In 1978 one of family member of the victims filed a lawsuit over the depiction of his sister in the film
The film's tagline claims that the the man who killed five people "still lurks the streets of Texarkana, Ark." causing officials of that neighboring city to threaten Pierce over the ads in 1977; however, it remained on the posters.
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Plot Rundown
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