Review of The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014) by Brupcatbr — 12 Jul 2016

The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a meta-sequel and a kind of remake for the movie that released in 1976, both are slasher horror movies. The 1976 is basically just a slasher movie based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, which is a unsolved case to this day.

The 2014 remake, which are the one we're reviewing, is a meta-sequel, kind of like in our world. It's smart, really smart, specially on how it's a remake, and the way it is a remake. The movie is gory, as expected for a slasher movie.

It contains superb art direction, visuals, cinematography, and one damn of a soundtrack. Not only that, but the movie has a really good feel to it. It talks about how the original 1976 movie brought all the tragedy, all the sadness, all the terrible memories of these murders back.

It also can replicate the terror of the moment, and the sadness of the aftermath. The intro of the movie shows this, and it does so very well. The ending, while it didn't surprise me much, it was pretty smart.

The way this movie overall worked was incredibly smart, in a way I could never predict. It remakes the scenes of the original film, and it does so while not being a remake. As a meta-sequel, it's absolutely incredible, and as far as remakes go, it's very good too, and by how it is a remake is a smart way.

The atmosphere always sets up a lot of fear, more than any other movies. The movie contains great use of gore, as it's violent in a good way. The storyline is so far the most incredible thing about this movie, it's smart, emotional, unique, and it can easily rip off tears.

This is so far, the best remake, if I can even call it one, and probably the best slasher flick of the recent years, and of course, a great meta-sequel, that brings truly incredible acting, thrilling moments, an eerie, creepy atmosphere, and overall is both a perfect remake, meta-sequel, and aswell as being a perfect slasher flick, that truly brings respect for Texarkana, both for the people who suffered and still suffers from grief from those events, and for the dead, and it feels like a caring, lovely tight hug for Texarkana, as it's able to be a unnerving horror movie, while still bringing as much respect as possible for the families of the victims, friends of the victims, and for the victims themselves.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown, is an amazing movie, and it's truly a masterpiece that I must recommend, it's thrilling, unnerving, beautiful, amazingly well written and acted, and beautifully directed, with absolutely phenomenal art direction, soundtrack, visuals, and also, it's a truly smart slasher movie, that truly brings respect to the tragedies that occured in Texarkana, and recognizes how much the original 1976 film made them remember the sadness and bring the grief back, and this movie, while it kind of brings it all back again, it respects it fully, and it really knows how to show it does.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown gets a 10/10.