How a Real Life Serial Killer Created the Slasher in THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- On the true crime history of Charles B Pierce's "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" - a fictionalization of the real life Texarkana Moonlight Murders that used a faux documentary approach to chronicle a killer's torment of a small town, its influence as a forgotten proto-slasher, and its meta sequel in 2014 of the same name, which looked to give resolution to a real life mystery that was never solved.
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What’s your favorite slasher movie?
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 because Ken Foree vs Leather
How do you avoid visual errors when you upload, Matt?
Nightmare On Elm Street is the first that comes to mind for me.
Nightmare on elm street the original
I have four: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974, Halloween 1978, Psycho 1960, and Nightmare on Elm Street. Though My Bloody Valentine is another good one.
Probably the first Scream
THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN has my favorite slasher poster ever. Head with simple bag on it, over the city at sundown. It gives amazing vibes, I love the way it's painted.
Agreed, this and The Burning are my favorite posters.
Was not expecting this one so quick. A really underrated film. Shame more people aren’t familiar with it.
What are your thoughts on the 2014 version?
Mom and Dad were young marrieds 30 miles away in Hope during the Phantom attacks. Whenever Dad was at work Mom was terrified that the Phantom was going to get her.
"THE TEXARKANA MOONLIGHT MURDERS," a term coined by the contemporary press, was a series of four unsolved serial murders and related violent crimes commited in the Texarkana region of the United States in early 1946. They were attributed to an alleged unidentified perpetrator known as the "Phantom of Texarkana, the "Phantom Killer," or the "Phantom Slayer." This hypothetical suspect was created with attacking eight people, five of them fatally, in a ten-week period. It happened from February 22 to May 3, 1946. In the end, the "Phantom Killer" was never caught, nor identified or seen again.
Good job copy/pasting from Wikipedia. Very impressive. :P
All time cult classic blending the real life crime with some fictional elements. Made it truly unique among slasher films
People should really look up the history behind the phantom killer of Texarkana, really scary stuff. Always great giving spotlight to over looked slashers, especially ones based on real life events.
This notification popped up the moment my lunch time started at my work. Perfect timing.
I feel like the first movie help establish and was an inspiration to the future trend of serial killers and murder podcast, in both it’s low budget grittiness and “uncovering and trying to solve a real murder” story telling
I never heard about this Cult Classic Slasher Movie. Thanks Matt Draper for talking about. This is a complete audiovisual encyclopedia about this Cult Classic Movie.💯💯
I didn't even realize that this was a true crime horror movie til I was older. A interesting blend of slasher and mystery and despair
This is an amazing analysis of Town that Dreaded Sundown. I thought it was okay, but now I want to rewatch it because of this video. When I watched it, it reminded me a bit of Zodiac, but a lot less structured.
I call that the 'Draper Effect'
Thanks for the amazing video Matt ❤
Excellent video, Matt!
Several huge names in Hollywood started off in Unsolved Mysteries reenactments! Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey is one example.
I saw it once because it was mentioned in a scene from Scream. I was shocked that Dawn Wells was in it. But I never watched the sequel
Dang Matt pumping out content that I'm missing on Patreon.
Yeah it's sad this guy was never caught.
Happy to see another video use White Bat's "Black Rainbows" in it! Kudos to you Matt
He killed Mary Ann which makes him the most evil killer in cinema in my book.
One I'd missed but gonna grab asap 😊 thanks 👍
As an Arkansan, this movie, Sling Blade, Mud, and the third season of True Detective are like our proudest cinematic achievements. 😅
Awesome video! Subscribed
Not going to lie, I heard of this one but I've never seen it. I might need to see the original, if out of curiosity.
It's an oddity, but I think it's worth checking out for any fans of horror or true crime
Another great essay.
Can we get a vid on the just as underrated on a true crime mystery 2007 Zodiac
I'm surprised you didn't mention the historical inaccuracies in The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
Are you planning talking about the Omen-films? I really enjoyed The First Omen, and would like to hear your take on the series.
I'll definitely do an Omen retro at some point!
Boggy Creek is truly underrated. You should do a video on that.
The first one fills like an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, thanks to Sparkplug. The second always felt like your typical slasher to me.
Matt, please cover The Omen and Fincher's Zodiac (and a comparison of Zodiac with Se7en)
I'd love to talk about Zodiac sometime, it's one of my favorite movies of the 2000s
Excellent Thumbnail
Excellent upload
Yep heard about this fella,
The only time I ever heard of this film was when it was name dropped in Scream (1996). But after watching this, I really want to see it for myself.
This movie delivers and Johnson and Prine are great.
If anything Pierce did give us one of the best MST3K's, Boggy Creek 2
Hey Matt,
I just watched your video and I must say it's really helpful and well made.
I was wondering if I could help you design your thumbnails for better CTR? Wanna try out a free one?
never heard of this movie , but as someone just getting into horror/slasher movies i will have to check it out
I love this film.
I remember the trailer for 2014 Sundown confusing me. Didn't seem like they were aiming to depict it as a slasher.
I understand this may seem a bit semantical,
But I think it important to point out that SKs don’t “create” anything -
but fear and misery.🤔
Film-makers create films 🙂✌️
this was the movie i was always looking for and never could find. It was the myth or white buffalo of my childhood lol
and yes I still haven't seen it 😢
Both movies are available for free on Tubi rn as of 6/21/2024
Free on tubi right now
TUBI - The best streaming service!
This guy would have been the perfect villain for the punisher or the crow
It sucks that antiheroes don’t go after serial killers ever
Society roots for antiheroes to kill lowlives and think serial killers are boring threats and not that realistic as apparently not that many people arr affected by serial killers so therefore they dont matter and aren’t significant enough to be the victim of an antihero.
Would LOVE a Blair Witch Project retrospective in time for the 25th anniversary.
Also I really expected a cutaway to Matthew McConaughey in Unsolved Mysteries (Season 5, Episode 12 ((1992) when you took a shot at not finding good actors in those shows
serial killer was a term used way before these murders happened...
Cooked!
Do you ever make videos about things I DON'T love? I watched The Town That Dreaded Sundown in 2014, coincidentally the week the sequel came out. After finishing the movie I had to google it to read about the real story and was shocked to find a brand new one in the top search results.
It sucks that everyone misses the point of The Town That Dreaded Sundown original.
The whole point was that it wasn’t about accuracy, it was about what made the situation horrible in the first place.
Eyy
didnt even know they made a sequel lol
sounds stupid glad I missed it
Town that dreaded sundown '74 > Town that dreaded sundown '14
I like the original for its early slasher and slightly campy at times vibes and for me, the sequel just doesn’t work on premise of the original being based on true events.
I'm gonna be real, I did not vibe with the tonal clash the slapstick moments surrounding Sparkplug brought to the film. I do not think they contributed to the juxtaposition of the light to dark scenes, I think they just felt like a tonal relic that definitely lowered the overall quality of the movie for me. Understanding now that it was Pierce himself just makes that worse, what the fuck my guy.
Third !
I love this film