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skayting · 1 year
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
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"based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders"
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scullys-scalpel · 7 months
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TJ MIKELOGAN'S HALLOWEEN 2023 EVENT Day Three: based on real events
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Inspired by the 1947 Texarkana Moonlight Murders. The killer was never found.
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mixreality · 9 months
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Bad comparison… but these dudes are the same.
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You can't change my mind.
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willsoakerss · 1 month
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like 2 days ago i was over at my friends house and we watched buzzfeed unsolved together (his first time watching it, ive watched it before) and we were exactly 18 seconds into "The Horrifying Texarkana Phantom Killer" when he says (and this is a direct quote) "Are they gonna kiss?" When seeing Ryan and Shane interact.
Make of that what you will.
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randr2086 · 7 months
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1977
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suspiria76 · 7 months
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THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN
USA
1976
Directed by Charles B Pierce
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rpfd · 1 year
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Here’s the Texarkana Phantom, from The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The original didn’t do much for me,but I really liked the new one.
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THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976)
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I remember being 14ish and my best friend showing me a movie by this name and it being great . I wanted to watch it again to see if it held up. Me being a silly bitch didn't realize I watched tye remake all those years ago until this version started playing and nothing seemed familiar. Regardless I watched this version and I have some mixed views. I really liked that this version was pretty close to the actual crimes that this movies is based on. Sure it isn't perfect but it's not too far off. Second I thought it was an interesting choice to have a documentary like voice over. I liked it in this version but in a more modern flick I don't think I would. The violence in this film isn't graphic and most of it is only half show but the acting makes it seem a lot more gruesome but I hated how there was no background score. it made the film feel weirdly quite and awkward. The only music seems to be when the cops are up to shenanigans. The outrageous silliness of tye cops in scenes sandwiched between horrifying and quiet slayings gave me whiplash. This kind of Mashup reminded me of The Last Housee On The Left and I didn't like it. Sure you can have comedy and jokes in a horror film but I didn't love the way they did it in this one
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katruna · 1 year
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weirdlandtv · 3 months
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Animation art from the intro to the 1966 BATMAN TV show. (Art by Lee Mishkin.)
I was a kid when BATMAN (1989) came out. It was a massive pop culture phenomenon, here in Holland too, and someone somewhere in television network land shouted out, “Quick! Batman! What do we have!”, and someone somewhere remembered the old TV show, and then someone somewhere dug up and dusted off that old TV show and pushed it into running a few more laps. This hopelessly Bat-crazed kid tho thought the show was hopelessly quaint and after a few episodes didnt tune in anymore same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.
Annoying snarky tone aside, it’s actually a fun show. It has many fans still, and fans are never wrong.
One thing I only notice now: is that Clayface, between Catwoman and the knife-wielding Texarkana Phantom Killer? (Is that Catwoman?) Also, who are the two villains who lead the charge? There’s one who looks like Shaggy’s evil scientist uncle and a green-shaded one with a scaley mask. They seem too distinctive to be just generic villains. Sending out a Bat-signal to any Bat-fans…
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dean-boese-universe · 2 years
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Episode 115 The Podcast That Dreaded Sundown...and Tangents
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dear-ao3 · 18 days
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fadeintoyou1993 · 3 months
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Everyone's afraid to say it, so let me be the first. There is a serial killer amongst us. San Francisco had the Zodiac. New Orleans had the Axeman. Texarkana, Texas, had the Phantom killer. The list goes on and on. Add to their ranks Riverdale's very own psychopath, the Black Hood. [...] There it was: Terror was seeping into the bedrock of Riverdale. A Town Hall Meeting had been set by Mayor McCoy. People were afraid to walk the streets alone, especially as dusk approached. Shops closed early, locks were added to doors, suspicions between the North and South side deepened, fanned into flames by Alice Cooper, as everyone wondered what danger lurked in the dark. When would we hear from the Black Hood next, and how far into darkness would Archie go on his quest to avenge his father and to stop the Black Hood? [...] And so the young lovers went back to where it all began, Sweetwater River, to try and end the cycle of violence. We'd come to think of that night, the night of the rumble, the night of the Town Hall, as a turning point. Riverdale would no longer be the town with pep. From now on, it would be known as the town that dreaded sundown.
RIVERDALE (2017-2023) Chapter Seventeen: The Town That Dreaded Sundown
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emilylprentiss · 7 months
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
In the spring of 1946, in the small town of Texarkana, on the Texas/Arkansas border, a series of horrific murders were committed by a masked assailant known only as the phantom killer. For three harrowing months, the phantom stalked the back roads of Texarkana following young couples looking for privacy to isolated areas where their screams for help would go unanswered. Though several arrests were made in connection to the brutal slayings which ended as suddenly as they began, the killer's identify was never confirmed. Indeed many people who lived through that nightmare time believe t4h phantom spend the rest of his days free, walking the streets of Texarkana quietly, anonymously, until his assumed death in 1976 a film inspired by the infamous Moonlight Murders was released. Every year on Halloween "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" is screened somewhere in Texarkana, in tribute to the Phantom's legacy of death and blood. Today, Texarkana is a place haunted by its past, defined by a mystery that was never solved, and a tragedy that could never be forgotten. The following happened in Texarkana last year.
mikelogan's halloween 2023 event | day 3: based on real events
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morbidology · 10 months
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Texarkana is a sleepy town that is split between both Texas and Arkansas. Over the spring of 1946, a ruthless serial killer held the citizens of Texarkana in a state of perpetual fear. Even to this day, even the thought of the “Texarkana Moonlight Murders” sends a chill down the spine of the residents. This elusive killer predominantly targeted young couples parked on lovers’ lanes; their final attack, however, was committed against a middle-aged couple in their own farmhouse. Despite an abundance of theories and suspects, the identity of the “Phantom Killer” still remains unknown.
It all began on the night of February 22, 1946, when Jimmy Hollis, 24, and his girlfriend, Mary Jeanne Larey, 19, were parked in a secluded corner on a lonely road just off Richmond Road in Texarkana. The young couple had spent the evening at the cinema and decided they would stop down the lovers’ lane for some alone time before Jimmy dropped Mary back home. Out of the darkness, a man wearing a white cloth mask – presumably a pillowcase with eye holes – appeared at the car window and shone a flashlight into their eyes.
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞:
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theoxvest · 8 months
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Over thinking about the titles of Deadlands episodes and what they're in reference to. The Town that Dreaded Justice is a play on The Town that Dreaded Sundown which is a film about the Texarkana Phantom killer. Forty Times a Killer is the name of a book about an Old West serial killer. Just wondering if the other titles have meanings im missing.
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