Halloween horror marathon: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

poster-town-that-dreaded-sundownReturning to The Town That Dreaded Sundown over a decade after I first saw it reminds me that coolness and taste have to be acquired. Nobody innately has either quality from birth. This movie is a perfect case in point, as I came to it not because I knew it was cool, or through study of the obscure. No, I – like so many teenagers in the mid-’90s – heard the title name-checked in Scream, and (like every other little gorehound) filed it away with all the other movies mentioned during the course of Wes Craven’s homage picture.
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