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Dead Noon

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2 star:		(1)
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I got to "preview" this movie via a supermarket dvd; I hated it only because it was so cheaply made. After I found out the cost to make it was $4,000, I thought, wow what a great movie for so little money. I watched it again and - boy do I love this movie. The story is great. I listened closely to what they were talking about, rather than focusing my attention on the paperweight skeletons. This is a love it or hate it movie, many will hate, but I got past that, and now I even love the cheap scenery and special effects. The score is magnificent - reminds me of John Carpenter's Vampires score. Plus - I love Kane Hodder.

A very pleasant surprise. A friend suggested that I watch it, but I knew this was a very low budget movie so I really didn't expect much. However, it was better than I expected it to be. It actually kept me entertained. The production quality was definitely low-budget, however The special effects are impressive when you consider the budget, or lack thereof, that they had to work with. As for the acting, it was better than I expected. The performances by the actors Kane Hodder and Kelsey McCann, who were in effect setting up the story, are actually extraordinary. Definitely far superior to what I would expect to see from actors in a low-budget "straight to DVD" horror film.
Again, I found it a fun way to spend an hour and a half. Just understand they obviously didn't have the budget of, say, Avatar.

This i found was an ok movie..it was not Great but i'am very glad i bought it!
well to be honest it was like a underground college film more than a Hollywood film
which i like it more anyway. on that subject Go get it from Amazon buy it and ENJOY!!!!

A long time ago a sheriff killed a man (Frank) and his thugs. Frank plays the devil in a game of poker in order to return to the surface and take revenge on the descendants of the sheriff and to make Ingmar Bergman (knight vs. death chess match) roll over in his grave. They start killing anything at random with bullets that burn people alive. The special effects are not good. There are a lot of pauses in the dialogue. I don't mean the William Shatner overly frequent dramatic pauses, but the deer in the headlight pauses one has in order to attempt to gather their thoughts because they forgot their lines. It was so bad it was MST comical. While everyone in the gang has been dead the same amount of time, they are all in various stages of decay, from skull, to just the eyes are missing. There are Italian zombie films better than this one. Is there a reason why one wears jungle camouflage pants in the desert? If you are going to make a cheap movie, at least make the dialogue entertaining. This movie is Ed Wood bad. I made the mistake of not watching it stoned.

DEAD NOON won for Best Visual Effects, and an Honorable Mention, at the 2007 Tabloid Witch Awards in Santa Monica, CA.

The high concept is brilliant -- HIGH NOON done as a horror western. As in HIGH NOON, some bandits return to take vengence on a sherrif, who recently married and stays to protect the town rather than run away with his wife.

The difference is, these bandits were killed by the sheriff's ancestor. And they've been released not from prison, but from Hell.

DEAD NOON's energetic style evokes EVIL DEAD and the work of Quentin Tarentino. A lively, gory, fun horror western, with a strong moral core.

I watched this movie with my wife. We both enjoy zombie movies and I enjoy westerns as well as cult classics such as "Night of the Living Dead" and "Return of the Living Dead" so tongue-in-cheek comedic horror is not unwelcome in our DVD collection.

Unfortunately this movie failed to deliver. Kane Hodder plays his part well but the rest of the acting is substandard in our book as the characters' interaction is reminiscent of a bad porno movie...without the porn.

The soundtrack is awesome as well as the poker game in hell scenes, but if you're seeking a zombie western that in our opinion is worthy of the genre try "Undead or Alive" from DarkLot Entertainment.

Our favorite zombie horror/comedy movie to date is "Dawn of the Dead" from Universal studios.

Let's get the obvious out of the way first: this movie is very very low budget. But what a low budget! The acting is as wooden as you'd expect for these kinds of films, so director Wiest wisely forgoes lengthy exposition and those annoying character speeches that are meant to be supposedly self-revealing for said character, and goes straight for the chase. There are lots of pretty decent well choreographed chase and gun fight scenes. Yes, the skeletons are a little tough to watch without smirking, but the fiery cowboy who shoots bullets of hellfire that incinerate his victims was BRILLIANT. In all, Dead Noon does a great job synthesizing cowboy mythology and old-west clichés and giving it a semi-modern twist. Case and point-the excellent music for the film. As for the bizarre review that compared this film to bad acting in a porno, I've never watched porn so I wouldn't know about porn acting, but it's pretty obvious that that review knows what he likes and likes what he knows---and should stick with that.

I really enjoyed Dead Noon. It is sort-of a follow-up to the old movie High Noon, where the bad guy, when dying, says something like "I'll get even -- I'll be back". It is supposed to be scary (maybe) but is really a comedy. It has a lot of great lines and some fun action scenes. I like the idea that it is told as a story.

The sheriff is really a cute guy with his dimple. Wonder how they filmed him jumping over the deep canyon and almost slipping -- it looked real.

The extra things in the "making of" with the shower scenes are hilarious.

I recommend watching this for pure entertainment. The first few minutes are pretty slow, but stick with it. It's worth watching.

MB

I really liked this movie, especially if you listen to the story being told it makes the movie even better. It kept my interest and I was really surprised by the ending. I'm going to watch it again because I know I will even catch more of the story.

I cant believe Lionsgate put this movie out.To say this movie was horrible,is an under statement.I just finished watching it and Im pissed off that I wasted my money.