Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
- based on true story
- stalking
- serial killer
- killer
- fake documentary
- proto-slasher
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ben Johnson
Captain J.D. Morales
Andrew Prine
Deputy Norman Ramsey
Dawn Wells
Helen Reed
Jimmy Clem
Sgt. Mal Griffin
- Jim Citty — Police Chief R.J. Sullivan
- Charles B. Pierce — Patrolman A.C. Benson
- Robert Aquino — Sheriff Otis Barker
- Cindy Butler — Peggy Loomis
- Christine Ellsworth — Linda Mae Jenkins
- Earl E. Smith — Dr. Kress
- Steve Lyons — Roy Allen
- Joe Catalanotto — Eddie LeDoux
- Roy Lee Brown — Rainbow Johnson
- Mike Hackworth — Sammy Fuller
- Misty West — Emma Lou Cook
- Directed
- Charles B. Pierce
- Written
- Earl E. Smith
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 228 ratings
- Studio
- American International Pictures, Charles B. Pierce Film Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
