Despite her worries, they go to Spring Lake Park in the middle of town. After the dance, on April 14, trombone player Peggy Loomis leaves with her boyfriend Roy Allen. The next attack falls on the day of a high school prom, and decoys are set up on the edges of town. Benson "Sparkplug" is to be his driver.Īt the barber shop, Ramsey explains to Morales his theory that the Phantom attacks every 21 days. Ramsey is assigned to assist Morales, and Patrolman A.C. After arriving, Morales explains he'll be in charge of the investigation and calls the unidentified attacker a Phantom. Sheriff Barker calls in help and tells Ramsey they are getting the most famous criminal investigator in the country, the "Lone Wolf" of the Texas Rangers, Captain J.D. Panicked, the town sells out of guns and other home safety equipment. Ramsey spots the hooded man escaping in a car.
Turner dead in a ditch and the corpse of his girlfriend, Emma Lou Cook, tied to a tree. On March 24, while investigating a lovers' lane in heavy rain, Ramsey hears gunshots and finds Howard W. At the hospital, a doctor tells Sheriff Barker that Linda was not raped but that her back, stomach, and breasts were "heavily bitten literally chewed." At the police station, Barker suggests to Police Chief Sullivan to warn teens and college students from parking on lonely roads. He leaves a message for Sheriff Barker to meet him at Michael-Meagher Hospital. While at the crime scene, Deputy Norman Ramsey reports that both victims are still alive. The next morning, Linda is found on the side of the road barely alive. The man then gets inside the car with Linda. While Sammy tries starting the car, the man breaks his window and pulls him out, cutting him on the broken glass. Soon, the hood of the car opens and closes and a man with a bag over his head with holes cut out for his eyes is seen holding wires he had yanked from the engine. On the night of Sunday, March 3, 1946, Sammy Fuller and Linda Mae Jenkins park on a lovers' lane. A meta-sequel with the same name was released on October 16, 2014.īefore the "Phantom-attacks", which occurred about eight months after World War II, Texarkana was pleasant and citizens were preparing for a good future. The film's tagline claims that the man who killed five people "still lurks the streets of Texarkana, Ark.", causing officials of that neighboring city to threaten Pierce over the ads in 1977 however, it remained on the posters. The fabricated facts in the film have also caused rumors and folklore to spread for generations around Texarkana. The film is loose enough with the facts that one family member of a victim filed a lawsuit in 1978, over its depiction of his sister. As in the film, the real killer was never identified nor apprehended.
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However, the general outline of the murders largely follows the reality, with mostly minor artistic license taken. Most of the murders occurred in rural areas just outside Texarkana, in Bowie County, Texas, while the film has them occurring in Arkansas. The film is somewhat loosely based on the actual crimes attributed to an unidentified serial killer known as the Phantom Killer it claims that "the incredible story you are about to see is true, where it happened and how it happened only the names have been changed." The actual Phantom attacked eight people between Februand in or near the town of Texarkana, Texas, which is on the border of Texas and Arkansas. The film is an early example of a slasher film, having been released two years before Halloween ( 1978), and just two years after Black Christmas ( 1974), a film considered as one of the earliest in the genre.
The world premiere was held in Texarkana on December 17, 1976, before its regular run in theaters on December 24. The film was mostly shot around Texarkana, and a number of locals were cast as extras. The Phantom is played by Bud Davis, who later worked as stunt coordinator on films such as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, and Inglourious Basterds. Cindy Butler (Pierce's girlfriend at the time) plays Peggy Loomis, the trombone victim. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. Dawn Wells (Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island) appears as one of the victims. Morales, the fictionalized version of real-life Texas Ranger Captain M. Pierce's fifth film is narrated by Vern Stierman who had previously narrated Pierce's 1972 film The Legend of Boggy Creek. Ben Johnson stars as Captain J.D. Pierce who also co-stars as a bumbling police officer named A.C. The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976. American slasher film by producer and director Charles B. $5 Million Images of The Town That Dreaded Sundown
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