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Ryan Murphy spilled details at a screening last night for the season finale of FX’s American Horror Story. “The movie that I was most freaked out by as a child was this movie that no one ever saw called The Town That Dreaded Sundown… I was just starting to babysit my brother, and the ads for that would come on and I would get freaked out”, he told the audience. MGM’s modern take on the horror movie, based on Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 cult pic about real-life murders committed along the Texas-Arkansas border in 1946, will be produced by Murphy and his Normal Heart producer Jason Blum, with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Glee, American Horror Story) in negotiations to direct. The project has a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who produced and wrote episodes of Glee for Murphy, came in for rewrites on Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark and penned MGM’s October-set Carrie remake. The original pic adopted an Unsolved Mysteries-esque approach that could translate to the found-footage elements in Blum’s horror hit Sinister and his Paranormal Activity films. Murphy is repped by CAA. Gomez-Rejon, who served as second unit director on Ben Affleck’s Oscar-nominated Argo, is repped by WME.
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Murphy as a babysitter sounds far more chilling. Anyway we can turn that into a picture?
Don’t be mean!
We are now living in The Town That Dreads Ryan Murphy.
I just hope the writers and directors don’t take “artistic liberties” and make this movie so far from the truth that it’s unbelievable. Hopefully this will be a good remake and they will stick to the story and not stray so far.
The town that dreaded sundown is a great, but extremely low-budget movie. The great thing about it, though, is the direction. Charles B Pierce did a fabulous job, despite working with many locals hired to say lines… not even actors. (the two main parts were played by actors though). And the story is creepy, and basically true. They never caught the guy who committed these murders, but the murders took place in the 1940′s. I imagine the new version will update it a bit.
MGM, which has been remaking almost every hit in its library (sometimes twice) is now remaking a movie that only 32 people remember. In this town, that’s considered progress.