Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303917467 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303917461 Label: Good Times Video Manufacturer: Good Times Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Good Times Video Release Date: May 15, 2001 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 2540 Studio: Good Times Video Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Rating: - Campiness At Its Finest
The year is 1946 and while some last minute soldiers are still making their way home, most of them are already back from the war and are starting up families, going to work or school, or just enjoying their time at home. Little did they know that on this day, Sunday, March 3rd, that a hooded killer would begin his onslaught right here in Texarkana, Arkansas. They call him The Phantom Killer and his legacy begins here and now.
This film is in some desperate need of restoration and an official DVD release, for that matter. The dated film reel is too dark during most of the scenes I wanted to see most, which is just about every scene with The Phantom Killer since most of his kills take place at night. I feel it hurts the film more than anything. If it was just grainy throughout the film, then it'd kind of add to the general feel of the movie. The film is not only grainy, but the colors also bleed into ... Read More
Rating: - THE KILLER WAS NEVER CAUGHT
I REMEMBER MY 16 YEAR OLD COUSIN SEEING THIS AND BEING AFRAID TO STAY AT HOME BY HIMSELF AFTER SCHOOL. HE WOULD WALK TO MY HOUSE AND WAIT UNTIL HIS PARENTS CAME HOME FROM WORK. HIS REASONING WAS THAT WE LIVED NEAR TEXARKANA, AND AT THE TIME, THE MURDERES HAPPEND BARELY 30 YEARS BEFORE. AND SINCE THE KILLER WAS NEVER CAUGHT, IT WAS PLAUSABLE THAT HE COULD STILL BE OUT THERE WAITING TO KILL AGAIN.
Rating: - Twenty-somethings get engorged and tingling then a psycho with a flourbag over his head ruins the would-be climax
I suppose this film is more important in a historical sense than an artistic one: it's a proto-slasher film (from 1976, before the great age of the slasher flick), about a proto-slasher (a real whacko carving up Texarkana in 1946).
Just to establish this as being a docu-drama, and therefore obviously non-exploitative, let's have a long narration fill in the settings for us, instead of any interesting technique: It's eight months after the war, and Texarkana is returning to normal and full of that heady optimism which will turn to conformist paranoia by the mid-'50's. We get to see a long montage of jes' plain life with jes' plain folks. (In case you were wondering, '40's and '70's makeup and hairstyles don't blend very well -- imagine an episode of The Waltons with a masked killer.)
The first attack: SUNDAY, MARCH 3 (superimposed, so we won't forget the date). We can't get mad ... Read More
Rating: - sorry Texasarkana
what? I was surprised to find out that this was a true story. It was alot of screaming and blood. Whew! Hope he's dead by now!!!!!!
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