tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post1228160215877268894..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-13370554607729750692019-11-14T03:22:24.472-08:002019-11-14T03:22:24.472-08:00Yeah it's a pretty influential movie, despite ...Yeah it's a pretty influential movie, despite it's shortcomings, it was just a typical aspect of pre 80's horror to incorporate goofy humor. It's got a good mysterious vibe to itAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04073179369299959040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-14418247096246331552018-04-13T05:23:13.011-07:002018-04-13T05:23:13.011-07:00The drive-in experience of DREADED SUNDOWN in 1976...The drive-in experience of DREADED SUNDOWN in 1976 was a very different thing than watching the movie on a TV screen of today. For us, it delivered the goods, and we actually expected the murders to be as sadistic as they were depicted. The impression one got was not that the movie relished showing us the ugliness, but rather that we needed to know how much more grim an actual murder can be than the way it is depicted for example in a newspaper . What didnt work then at all was the ludicrous "comic" shenanigans of the deputy. I think the character's name was Slingshot or Buckshot or some such thing. At the time we figured he must have been a brother in law of the director or something. (Had no idea it was the director himself. Sheesh.) It was no classic then either - but it was what we wanted from our weekly Friday-night trips to the Fairview Drive-in. F. Ben Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08736492083983845555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-30520771775806259882015-06-12T20:17:22.334-07:002015-06-12T20:17:22.334-07:00I wished I had read your advice before watching th...I wished I had read your advice before watching this garbageRon Wolpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06045844604110698615noreply@blogger.com