Boring

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The Town That Dreaded Sundown has its fair share of clichés, but that doesn't make it a bad film. It is probably the most "progressive" remake in the history of cinema, because it acknowledges the original 1970s film and the events that led to the film , and uses them as a pivotal part of the storyline in a manner that has never been done before. The writing, as i mentioned before, has some horror clichés in it, but the progressive way that the original film has been remade makes up for it right away after the first 15 minutes.Gomez-Rejon's directing has almost no flaws, he is superb in what I assume his feauture film debut, the use of light is extremely captivating, I guess we should thank the cinematographer as well as Gomez-Rejon for that. This film is a must-watch for the lovers of the genre and especially for the fans of the original film. I bet it would be a huge film if Blumhouse Productions was as highly valued as it is today back in 2014.

I remember the movie from 1976 and had no idea there was a 2014 movie until I saw it on Amazon Prime. Having found nothing else interesting to watch, I unfortunately began to watch. BIG mistake. This one was very predictable. You always knew when the killer was going to strike...down to the second. Hardly any suspense. But even in a bad movie, I expect things to be at least somewhat believable. For a town that had suffered multiple murders at night, why, in the last few minutes when Jami and her grandmother are leaving town, is there no police presence on the streets? Nowhere. Come on. That's some BS. And who goes on a trip from Texas to California and leaves at night? That's quite unusual....you leave first thing in the morning, which coincidentally is the SAFEST time of the day in Texarkana. For a town that "dreaded sundown" you sure couldn't tell it...they were out and about all the time after dark (except for the police, of course). The sex scene seemed to be thrown in just for the hell of it.....sort of out of place even for a slasher film, which I guess is what this one was?I was so surprised that five established actors actually participated in this POS. Now I wish I had that hour and a half back. Pass on this one, folks.

The list of grindhouse horror classics that were rebooted and worked well is pretty short ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hills Have Eyes" are two that did work), and this one mostly works and had a clever twist on not simply being a remake or reboot. The premise here is that 65 years after the masked serial killer in Texarkana went on his killing spree, a new copycat killer is now recreating the murders from the 1970s Charles B. Pierce grindhouse film version of the actual murders. This film boasts a producer, director, and writer from the American Horror Story team, so you would expect something clever and this film does deliver. I think I was most excited when this film brought the Pierce film into the story as a major plot point, including creating a creepy fictional son of Pierce played by AHS regular Denis O'Hare, making the film rather meta. Also appearing in the film are Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Gary Cole, Edward Herrmann, Ed Lauter, and even Danielle Harris if you look fast. Overall, this was a clever reboot that although it's not as scary or creepy as I'd have hoped, is smart and never boring.

This 21st century version of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" isn't really a remake, or a sequel. It fashions a fictional tale around the real life murders that plagued Texarkana (a town straddling the Texas and Arkansas borders) in the 1940s, and the subsequent film adaptation of those events by regional filmmaker Charles B. Pierce in the 1970s. Addison Timlin plays Jami, a high school graduate whose boyfriend is slaughtered by a masked psycho, approximately 66 years after the original murder spree. She becomes caught up in her hometowns' strange history, deciding to do some sleuthing of her own and thereby assisting the local police and a big shot Texas Ranger (Anthony Anderson).Filmed on location in Texarkana (and Shreveport, Louisiana), this turned out to be more entertaining than this viewer expected, if mostly because it's played commendably straight. This viewer was afraid that these filmmakers were going to be overly impressed with their own supposed cleverness, and get cute too often. This is more of a straight up slasher film (albeit one with a fairly limited body count) than docudrama, although it does quote one memorable moment from TTSD '77, and the characters do study that film hoping to come up with clues. It's slick (with some inspired touches here and there), and pretty damn violent, but some people in the audience are going to be left wanting more because there just ain't THAT much gore. Ultimately, it's too predictable to work very well, and falls right into that old trap of having our villain talk too much once revealed.It also makes a waste of some of its veteran talent. In addition to the cute Timlin, who's appealing enough to carry the story, there's Veronica Cartwright as her grandmother, Edward Herrmann as a priest, and Ed Lauter as a sheriff. Sadly, this was the final feature film for both Herrmann and Lauter, and they deserved better swan songs. Gary Cole gets precious little to do as one of Lauters' deputies. Denis O'Hare tends to steal the show, playing the real-life Charles B. Pierce Jr., with his own theory of who could be behind the killings. Anderson is no Ben Johnson, not by a long shot.The finale isn't very satisfying, but getting there is entertaining enough. At the very least, it's nice to see that logo sequence for the long defunct Orion Studios once again.Six out of 10.