2014 · thriller · horror
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon1h 25m2014
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Our read: The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured thriller / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- intimate
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