The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 2014 American slasher film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The film serves as a metafictional sequel to the 1976 film of the same name. It stars Addison Timlin, Travis Tope, Spencer Treat Clark, Veronica Cartwright and Gary Cole and was one of the last films of Ed Lauter and Edward Herrmann before their deaths in October 2013 and December 2014, respectively. The project was initially planned as remake of the 1976 film. However, it was conceived as a sequel, with several elements and references from the original. The Town That Dreaded Sundown was released in the United States on October 16, 2014, by Orion Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.