#48: THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976)
Not Everyone Who Comes to This Lover's Lane Has the Same Thing on Their Mind.
1976's The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a proto-slasher that creates a stunning killer in it's Phantom but loses its suspense on slapstick comedy bits. We dive into those elements and go kill by kill to discuss how this film influenced the slasher genre.
Plus in our pop culture check-in, we talk family-friendly Halloween movies like Halloweentown & Coraline, then we dive into Waxwork, In the Tall Grass,
The Furies, and oddly enough Failure to Launch.