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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
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2014
1h 25m
5.8(531 votes)
Thriller
Horror

Overview

A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

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Blumhouse Productions
Ryan Murphy Television
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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