The Town That Dreaded Sundown - The Remake (2014)
 

From Collider:

MGM’s remake of the 1976 horror film The Town That Dreaded Sundown is moving forward, and some major players have boarded the project behind the scenes. We first learned that the remake was in development this past November, but now Heat Vision reports that Glee and American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy is teaming up with producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity franchise, Insidious) on the project. The original slasher film was based on five unsolved, grisly murders in 1946 Texarkana and became a cult hit.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in talks to direct the horror remake, which has a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Carrie remake, Glee). Gomez-Rejon has previously helmed a number of episodes of Glee and American Horror Story: Asylum, and is also a prolific second-unit director who most recently worked on Argo. This new Sundown is said to keep the original film’s cinema verite style with an added procedural element akin to Zodiac. Murphy also revealed that they’re doing a “weird meta thing with it,” whatever that means. Production is gearing up to begin this spring. Hit the jump to watch the trailer for the original film.

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As someone who just recently watched the original 1976 film - and thought it was utterly fantastic - I'm confident in saying it does not need to be remade, but I am morbidly curious how they'll do it.

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Never seen the original. I'll stick in that long list of films I'll see at some point.

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I saw the original in 1978 and and it creeped me out (I was 8). Thats what I get for sneaking out of bed at night and turning on HBO.

Have not seen it since. Shout factory needs to move their asses and release this already like they said they were.

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They just announced the other day that they're striking a new HD master for their upcoming BD release. I'd guess it'll be out in around 6 months.

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Nice!

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Haven't seen the original in years. Might have to revisit it on BD. Not terribly surprised to hear news of a remake.

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I thought The Strangers was a remake of this?

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Remakes don't really bug me anymore, but I love the original film :(

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I've never seen the original but the title made me think it was a vampire western.

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I'm in favor of a remake that has a Zodiac touch :thumbsup:

The main thing I hated about the original was the comic relief (Reminiscent of the deputy humor in Last House/Left) but I doubt that the trombone-kill will be topped.

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One thing the remake will lack

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They can only do the trombone-kill again if they get someone famous to be the victim and have it occur at the start of the movie, kind of be a Psycho touch. Given the involvement of Ryan Murphy, maybe they could get a Glee cast member.

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The only thing I remember about the original is the trombone-kill. Hilarious.

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The original has occasional good atmosphere, but the incongruous humour sort of ruins it.

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The Strangers is a remake of Ils aka Them.

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I still wish this was a Western that featured vampires. :lol:

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Did I see an Orion logo? Sweet.

Looks better than I expected, being more of a sequel than a remake. Might be a bit too slick, but Blum is one of the better horror producers out there. I'll give it a watch.

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I really liked that trailer. I'm definitely in!

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That trailer was quite the pastiche of horror movie cliches while ripping off stylistic flourishes from both Zodiac and TCM... among many others.

I, for one, will certainly not be rolling out after sundown with any sense of fear or trepidation.

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Based on the trailer :

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The original(first?) has some great moments but at times is very bizarre and amateurish. It's certainly not sacred so I'm not against this. The trailer wasn't bad, horror trailers are pretty hard to judge accurately, I'll probably check this out on home video.

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This was released in very limited markets and will debut on EPIX for Halloween -- it's also available on your typical VoD sources (Cable, Vudu, iTunes, etc; ) though it's an $8 rental / $22 purchase.

This is also a very bizarre movie at times, the best I can describe it as is a self-contained season of American Horror Story in 90 minutes. It's obvious the director knew it would never be mainstream and just ran with every strange impulse along the way. One of the reviews states: "For much of the movie it feels like what would have happened if Charlie Kaufman had written "Scream." Then it becomes another dumb slasher movie." and this isn't inaccurate. But I still enjoyed it, eccentricities and all.

It was really nice seeing the Orion logo again

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Do they keep the trombone kill?