Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

stsorrell I remember the movie from 1976 and had no idea there was a 2014 movie until I saw it on Amazon Prime. Having found nothing else interesting to watch, I unfortunately began to watch. BIG mistake. This one was very predictable. You always knew when the killer was going to strike...down to the second. Hardly any suspense. But even in a bad movie, I expect things to be at least somewhat believable. For a town that had suffered multiple murders at night, why, in the last few minutes when Jami and her grandmother are leaving town, is there no police presence on the streets? Nowhere. Come on. That's some BS. And who goes on a trip from Texas to California and leaves at night? That's quite unusual....you leave first thing in the morning, which coincidentally is the SAFEST time of the day in Texarkana. For a town that "dreaded sundown" you sure couldn't tell it...they were out and about all the time after dark (except for the police, of course). The sex scene seemed to be thrown in just for the hell of it.....sort of out of place even for a slasher film, which I guess is what this one was?I was so surprised that five established actors actually participated in this POS. Now I wish I had that hour and a half back. Pass on this one, folks.

sim-pl This film is not a remake, but sequel. The action takes place in modern times and there is another wave of killings in Texarkana. However plenty of scenes and characters are simply copied from the movie of 1976. In general - the film was boring, predictable, characters were artificial (especially terrible "Lone Wolf" - why the same nickname?). Not worth your time.

Tom Dooley I never expect too much from horrors however, this has a certain stylish élan that raise it above the crowd. Set in Texarkana some 65 years after the town was devastated by a serial killer who only struck his victims at night – this was the Phantom or 'The Moonlight Killer. Since the making of a controversial film depicting the crimes the events have become more notorious. Then on the anniversary of his first killings he comes back... mwah etc.Only this time The Phantom wants a certain victim to tell the truth about what really happened all those years ago or he will keep on killing the hapless inhabitants. Problem is no one actually does know what really happened so how to stop him? Now this is surprisingly good. The blood and gore is there but not a splatter fest, nor is it 'torture porn', it gets the point (forgive the pun) across that being killed is far from being a red letter day.Maybe a mild plot spoiler later on!!It is all well acted with some performances that stand up to be noticed – like Travis Tope ('Boardwalk Empire') playing Nick and Anthony Anderson playing the fabulously named 'Lone Wolf Morales'. It also has high production values that are only let down by – what I felt – was a pretty lame ending. It did try so not a huge disappointment. This is one where the journey is the value and the final destination not all it promised in the brochure – despite that I would still recommend this well made and entreating film. You may never look at a sensor motion light in the same way again though.

Scott LeBrun This 21st century version of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" isn't really a remake, or a sequel. It fashions a fictional tale around the real life murders that plagued Texarkana (a town straddling the Texas and Arkansas borders) in the 1940s, and the subsequent film adaptation of those events by regional filmmaker Charles B. Pierce in the 1970s. Addison Timlin plays Jami, a high school graduate whose boyfriend is slaughtered by a masked psycho, approximately 66 years after the original murder spree. She becomes caught up in her hometowns' strange history, deciding to do some sleuthing of her own and thereby assisting the local police and a big shot Texas Ranger (Anthony Anderson).Filmed on location in Texarkana (and Shreveport, Louisiana), this turned out to be more entertaining than this viewer expected, if mostly because it's played commendably straight. This viewer was afraid that these filmmakers were going to be overly impressed with their own supposed cleverness, and get cute too often. This is more of a straight up slasher film (albeit one with a fairly limited body count) than docudrama, although it does quote one memorable moment from TTSD '77, and the characters do study that film hoping to come up with clues. It's slick (with some inspired touches here and there), and pretty damn violent, but some people in the audience are going to be left wanting more because there just ain't THAT much gore. Ultimately, it's too predictable to work very well, and falls right into that old trap of having our villain talk too much once revealed.It also makes a waste of some of its veteran talent. In addition to the cute Timlin, who's appealing enough to carry the story, there's Veronica Cartwright as her grandmother, Edward Herrmann as a priest, and Ed Lauter as a sheriff. Sadly, this was the final feature film for both Herrmann and Lauter, and they deserved better swan songs. Gary Cole gets precious little to do as one of Lauters' deputies. Denis O'Hare tends to steal the show, playing the real-life Charles B. Pierce Jr., with his own theory of who could be behind the killings. Anderson is no Ben Johnson, not by a long shot.The finale isn't very satisfying, but getting there is entertaining enough. At the very least, it's nice to see that logo sequence for the long defunct Orion Studios once again.Six out of 10.