Review of The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) by Drew Taylor for The Playlist — 22 Sep 2014
A minor cult classic that cast a long shadow. Its cinema verite aesthetic, which combined deadpan narration, publicly available music cues, and chilling reenactments, created a kind of true crime sensationalism that would be borrowed by everything from Unsolved Mysteries to the current found footage horror craze.
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This review of The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) was written by Drew Taylor and published by The Playlist on 22 Sep 2014.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown has generally received mixed reviews.
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