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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
2014
· Movie
· 85 min
D
MEANRANK
55/100
Every rating
40–67
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 40, highest is Metacritic users on 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a small town on the Texas-Arkansas border, the community is terrorized by a serial killer who wears a hooded mask. The murders are a grim reminder of a similar series of killings that occurred decades earlier. A high school student becomes personally connected to the case and starts her own investigation, uncovering links between the present-day crimes and the town's dark past.
Details
- Director
- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Writer
- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
- Based on
- a work by Earl E. Smith
- Released
- 16 October 2014
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rated
- R
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