MGM Plans Remake of The Town that Dreaded Sundown

Continuing their focus on remaking titles from their large library of films, MGM plans to remake 1976's The Town that Dreaded Sundown. At the moment, this is at the very early planing stages, but Variety reports that MGM is on the lookout for interested in rebooting the story.

The original movie was directed by Charles B. Pierce and distributed by American International Pictures. Shout! Factory recently announced that the original movie will be part of their upcoming Scream Factory line-up and we should see a Blu-ray/DVD release in early 2013:

"In 1946, the joy and relief over the ending of World War II, and the happiness over the prosperity that followed, was destroyed for the residents of Texarkana by a series of traumatic experiences that many still remember. In the Spring of that year, five townspeople were brutally murdered and three brought to near death by a masked madman who eluded capture by the Texas Rangers and a host of other law enforcement agencies. This true-to-life thriller is a dramatization of those five still unsolved murders which sent local residents into a panic and caused their town to become an armed camp after sundown."