Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Halloween (1978), Boom Town (1940), Firecreek (1968), Clay Pigeons (1998), Halloween II (1981), The Jade Mask (1945), Silver Bullet (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Small Town Sheriff movies.
Storyline: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.
Plot Keywords: young love, coming of age, storm, search party, 1960s, boy scout, sheriff ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.
Plot Keywords: halloween, year 1978, punishment, dead dog, violence, strangulation, halloween costume ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Buddies Big John McMasters and Square John Sand are fast-talking, wisecracking wildcatters who manage to con enough equipment and capital to develop their own oil fields, but their friendship is put to the test when Big John inadvertently falls in love with Elizabeth, Square John's longtime girlfriend. Eventually their friendship and partnership comes to an end on the flip of a coin. Years later, when Big John's interest in the beautiful Karen Vanmeer threatens his marriage too, Square John intervenes in an effort to save the marriage of his former friend - even if it means ruining him financially.—G. Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
Plot Keywords: oil, kiss, toy gun, double barreled shotgun, fistfight, six shooter, revolver ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Farmer and family man Johnny Cobb moonlights as a two dollar a month Sheriff with a homemade badge in the quiet little town of Firecreek. When a gang of freebooters passes through, their leader Larkin, who is suffering from a minor wound, agrees to spend the night. The gang members prove to be vicious, sadistic sociopaths who take advantage of the frightened townspeople, humiliating them for their own perverse amusement. Although Larkin disapproves of their behavior, his leadership role is tenuous, and he is reluctant to test it by exercising control over his men. The mild-mannered Cobb faces a series of challenges from the gang's antisocial behavior. Things come to a head when Meli, an Indian woman with a mixed race child, incurs an attempted sexual attack by one of gang. Arthur, a simpleton stable boy, comes to her aid and accidentally kills the attacker. Cobb locks up Arthur to keep him safe, but when the Sheriff leaves town to visit his wife, who is struggling in labor, there is no one to control the gang. Cobb decides the time has come to act.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: prison, preacher, pitchfork, native american, midwife, mental retardation, lynching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the on-going affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay befriends a troubling serial killer.
Plot Keywords: anal sex, dying during sex, adultery, small town sheriff, waitress, panties, female rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Doctor Samuel Loomis shoot's Michael Myer's Six Times and falls off a Balcony. Michael escapes and continues his massacre in Haddonfield, Laurie is also sent to the Hospital and Dr Loomis gathers a Group of Police Officers to hunt Down Michael and put an end to his Murderous Rampage.
Plot Keywords: hospital, lifting someone into the air, pantyhose, female stockinged feet, camera shot of feet, masked villain, paramedic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to be murdered, Charlie Chan (with the uninvited help of No. 4 son) tries to answer such questions as Where's the body? How can a dead man walk? And how can a secret murder be done in full view of detectives and witnesses?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: independent film, secret formula, small town sheriff, ventriloquist dummy, whodunit, dictaphone, intercom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The small town of Tarker's Mills was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing extraordinary ever happened until one night when murders began. The townspeople believe it's some maniacal killer on the loose whom they intend to hunt down. Marty, a young handicapped boy, believes the killer is no man at all, but a werewolf. After a run-in with the werewolf, Marty and his sister Jane hunt all over town for the man who is the werewolf.
Plot Keywords: pantyhose, 1970s, year 1976, cigarette smoking, police investigation, gas station, shotgun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The vicious Hayes clan amble into town on the day Judge Jim Scott is expected to sentence murderer Rudy Hayes to hang. Scott, who doesn't wear a gun, seems unconcerned and businesslike, even when Charlie Hayes makes an explicit death threat against him. But the townsfolk start wondering how much bloodshed one hanging is worth. Complicating factor: the sheriff, Scott's chief ally, is also the secret lover of Scott's fiancee Myra...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: death threat, romantic triangle, unfaithful girlfriend, cousin cousin relationship, small town sheriff, small western town, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheriff Owens is a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for the face off.
Plot Keywords: modern western, neo western, chevrolet corvette, tractor, double barreled shotgun, arrest, sports car ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man with a thirst for revenge builds a full body armor from Kevlar and goes on a killing spree.
Plot Keywords: burning car, manic laughter, exploding building, foot pursuit, woods, taser, police officer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Valentine's Day is coming around and the young people of the small mining town of Valentine's BLuffs are organising a party. A few decades earlier an explosion at the mine trapped six miners underground. One, Harry Warden, survived, though in a deranged state. Warden is sent to a mental hospital but escapes and murders those he deems responsible for the mine accident. Now people are being brutally murdered again, and the townsfolk suspect that it is the work of Harry Warden.
Plot Keywords: slasher, canuxploitation, heart ripped out, love triangle, decapitation, murder spree, mass murderer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.—Elisabeth Pruitt <foosi@global.california.com>
Plot Keywords: coast, lesbian, murder of a pregnant woman, murder investigation, woman drowned, dead woman, male female relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface.
Plot Keywords: scantily clad female, nipples visible through clothing, wet t shirt, stupid victim, no opening credits, slaughterhouse, sadistic horror ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?
Plot Keywords: bare butt, neo noir, nude photograph, female rear nudity, cigarette smoking, gas station attendant, gas station ...
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