The Town that Dreaded Sundown Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

The story centers on a rural Texarkana town that was stalked by a serial killer in 1946. The maniac was never caught and in 2013, he comes back. Addison Timlin plays a young high schooler being raised by her grandmother who’s targeted by the mysterious killer. Travis Tope will play a classmate who befriends Timlin’s character and decides to make a documentary about the search for the killer. Veronica Cartwright will play Timlin’s grandmother who is raising her after her parents die in a car accident. Gary Cole is a deputy who is doggedly pursuing the killer, and Joshua Leonard will play the deputy assigned to protect Timlin and her grandmother.

Cited as modified plot formulation from hollywoodreporter.com

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Town that Dreaded Sundown.

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  Travis Tope

  Men, Women & Children, Seven in Heaven

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  Addison Timlin

  Blackout, Best Man Down

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  Veronica Cartwright

  Insight, The Invasion

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  Gary Cole

  Hop, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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  Joshua Leonard

  The Ever After, If I Stay

Crew Behind the Film

The The Town that Dreaded Sundown behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon last directed The Current War - Director's Cut and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The film's writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa last wrote Carrie and The Madman's Daughter.

Director

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Screenwriter

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Producers

Jason Blum
Ryan Murphy

Production Details

What we know about the The Town that Dreaded Sundown movie production.

Key Facts

• MGM is aiming to produce the remake on a low budget and keep the original's cinema verite style. The remake is said to have horror-movie tones and elements of a procedural in the vein of David Fincher's Zodiac.
• Remake of the 1976 film written by Earl E. Smith.

Production Updates for The Town that Dreaded Sundown

Jul 2018

Completed

Changed The Town that Dreaded Sundown movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

May 2013

Production

Changed the movie production status to Production. The movie shoots May 2013 in Louisiana.

Jan 2013

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum are teaming up to produce the remake. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in negotiations to direct the movie. The project is eyeing a spring 2013 start.

Nov 2012

Announced

Changed the movie production status to Announced. MGM is developing a remake of 1976 horror movie.

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