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?

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I never actually saw the original, but

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Saw this tonight. I liked it more than I was expecting to. Lots of familiar faces in the cast that I wasn't really expecting.

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Does the killer use that ridiculous digitally-altered voice from the trailer in the actual movie? I think I would find that too distracting.

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Looking forward to watching this over the weekend. I'm a fan of the original and the cast they were able to put together for this seems pretty talented.

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This is only $9.99 on vudu right now. I'm gonna have to pick it up. Also the original is on Netflix right now.

The original was very hard to find for a long time.

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The original is a hodgepodge of oddly paced low budget but legitimately creepy scenes (the trombone scene...) and out of place, unfunny slapstick humor. It's worth seeing, and holds up alright, but at the same time it's really poorly made and acted. The remake is pretty good if a little unsatisfying when all is said and done. I had somewhat low expectations for it, which it exceeded. A couple good jump scares but lacks an overall sense of dread.

The original has a really nice sense of atmosphere and some beautiful ambiance, but it's basically just a glorified episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

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I pulled a double feature of the og and the "remake". Giant props to the creators of the remake. They could have done a cheap carbon copy remake but really went above and beyond with a very clever "meta" take on this property.

The remake fully acknowledges the fact that the original movie exists and goes so far as having the characters investigate the making of the first movie to help discover the killer.

This made a very fun double feature and I recommend watching that way for the greatest enjoyment. Wtf trombone. Haha.

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Original is on NF streaming

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you should be banned

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It will be, I'm sure.

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You know, this wasn't half bad. It seemed to lose focus at times, or rather, it kept shifting focus to a lot of awkward sex scenes. But I loved how insanely meta is was, and the killer had some inventive, nasty ways to make kids go pop. It wasn't great by any means, though neither is the original. I think this was an admirable remake/sequel/whatever-it-was.

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There was an interview with Murphy and the director about how they had the freedom to try what they wanted because the budget was so low on this. I wish more movies had that mentality, not necessarily "do anything!" but definitely try things out. My guess is the cost was around the price of 1 episode of American Horror Story.

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Totally agree. A worthy effort deserving of some praise. Definitely had some creativity which was a pleasant surprise.