Based on a terrifying true story, The Town That Dreaded Sundown picks up sixty-five years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, when the "moonlight murders” begin again. Even though the movie is considered a slasher it is more based in the police investigation, what I think works very well giving a more mystic and mysterious air to the killer. The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 2014 American slasher film, a meta-sequel to the 1976 film of the same name. In this new, regular series, Wicked Horror’s resident true crime expert April Bennett takes a look at one of these cases in an attempt to better understand why it remains open. Morales never stopped looking for the Phantom Killer. The killer is credited with attacking eight people within ten weeks, five of whom were killed. The attacks served partially as the basis for a motion picture, The Town that Dreaded Sundown. The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 horror film by producer/director Charles B. Pierce.Based very loosely on true incidents that took place just after World War II around Texarkana (Miller County), it was one of the first movies in the “slasher” genre.The film starred 1971 Academy Award winner Ben Johnson along with television stars Andrew Prine and Dawn Wells. It's just one of those movie titles that perfectly roll off the tongue. John A. Norman of Dallas, a retired trust company CEO who is plotting a novel, writes: "I was a teenager, living in New Boston at the time. That summer, we were afraid to sleep with windows open. Five people were killed, and three were wounded. This is Based on a True Crime. In this installment, April will be revisiting the infamous Tekarkana murders which inspired the feature film The Town that Dreaded Sundown. Morales never stopped looking for the Phantom Killer. Whoever hid behind that white mask, chances are that after almost 70 years he no longer “lurks on the streets of Texarkana” as the tagline to The Town That Dreaded Sundown suggests. The Town That Dreaded Sundown is one of the first handful of horror films that can be classified in the “slasher” sub-genre, coming out just a few years after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Black Christmas. While there was one major suspect, he was never convicted of these crimes. The voice-over narrator details the fates of each of the main characters: Captain J.D. We've got a trailer for a new film with a great title called The Town that Dreaded Sundown. So lock your doors, install some Venetian blinds, and get yourselves some guard dogs because our new episode has dropped!!! The Town That Dreaded … Before Ted Bundy, the Zodiac, or …