SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

MBunge I demand the creation of a federal law enforcement agency to handle the new criminal scourge of the 21st century. It could be called the BFC - Bureau of Fraudulent Cinema - and its mission would be to investigate, arrest and prosecute those responsible for passing off sub-amateurish dreck like Dead Noon as legitimate filmmaking. There's a lot of low budget flicks out there, including some of the most dirt poor ones, that are actually worth watching. It's hard enough to ferret them out from the mountain of cheaply made crap, but then you've got movies like this that don't even qualify as crap. Someone has got to stop this kind of deceitful product from polluting the marketplace.Let me be clear, I'm not blaming the people who made this movie. They do appear to be poltroons who are bereft of talent and without an inkling of self-awareness, but everybody has dreams and you can't punish deluded dullards just because they aspire to be Hollywood stars. No, I'm talking about the people who took the dreadful work of co-writer/director Andrew Wiest and company, burned it onto DVDs and distributed it across the country, hoping that unsuspecting saps would plop down their hard earned money on Dead Noon in the vain hope of being entertained. That's because no sober, unmedicated individual could possibly be entertained by this fiasco and those responsible for unleashing it on the public had to know that. This movie isn't a failure or a mistake. It's a deliberate effort to trick people out of their money.I can confidently allege that because there are two different types of filmmaking on display here. There's the original footage shot by Wiest that is…just…awful. Then there are several scenes obviously shot long after the original production, starring horror legend Kane Hodder and used as framing devices for the rest of the film. The stuff with Hodder has production values, camera work and even writing that is clearly superior to the other footage. It's not good, but it is the product of marginally competent professionals. The original scenes look like they were made by some high school film nerds who used the Christmas money from their grandmas to rent some equipment and hire the staff from a local Applebee's to be their cast and crew.I mean, the lead actor here has such a limited range of expression it appears he celebrated getting this part by having botox injected into his entire face. The internal logic of the plot is so twisted, contradictory and nonsensical that it would make Mr. Spock's head explode. The visual storytelling for 99% of Dead Noon is so remedial that it would make the average episode of Romper Room look like it was directed by David Lynch. Then, for no apparent reason, it digresses for a few minutes into some pretentious, avant garde, film school dropout fantasy sequence that cannot possibly have been made by the same person who directed the rest of it. And yes, I know how much the Romper Room reference dates me.Between director Wiest's weird reloading fetish, computer special effects that are just as bad as the real world FX you would have seen in a 1950s drive-in theater and moments of dialog that sound like they were written by someone with Asperger's Syndrome, the original footage is unwatchable to anyone except the friends and family of the people who made it. But somebody took that video, packaged it with the Scorsese-like in comparison scenes with Hodder and willfully tried to fool people into renting or buying a copy of Dead Noon.I'm not being snarky or sarcastic when I say there should be a law against movies like this. I know it's neither practical nor Constitutional, but inflicting Dead Noon on innocent viewers should merit incarceration or, at least, community service. Maybe we could bring back the stocks and have those who produced and distributed the DVDs spend a few weekends having rotten fruit thrown at them. Failing that, don't ever watch this film or let anyone you know watch it. Even your worst enemy deserves better.

Michael O'Keefe An action horror flick with undead cowboys, skeletons and ancient demons all in current time. An old west outlaw(Robert Bear)makes a deal with devil and returns to present day with a gang of zombie cowboys to seek vengeance on the small town of Westin. The only law in town is the newlywed Sheriff Logan Kane(Scott Phillips)and his arrogant and power hungry brother Stuart(Robert Andrus). This may be one time the law does not win. Story line is pretty stupid; acting is atrocious; but special effects are cool...smoking skeletons and flaming zombie cowboys. Also in the cast: Elizabeth Mouton, Lilith Fields, Nick Martin and Kane Hodder.

flybynight-3 I've never seen a movie this bad before. I rented this hoping to see a decent B horror movie. What I got was not a horror movie, nor a B movie. This movie isn't even a C or a D movie. I've seen better movies made by juniors at Senior High.Let's start out with the script. The foundation of any movie. It was bad. Really bad. The first 45 minutes of the movie is as follows: Introduce a character, kill that same character, introduce a character, kill that same character, repeat. If that's not bad enough, the deaths aren't even original. It's just the antagonists shooting people. It's mind numbingly boring. The end was also a sad excuse at making a twist.Let's move on to the acting. The acting is bad throughout. It is quite obvious that no actor in this movie has had no prior acting experience. If you took a group of mentally handicapped children, you would have gotten better acting.Special effects. Were they not aloud to actually use fire? Did they need to do that in post? Worst special effects ever. They even accidentally green screened things out that were supposed to be in the shot.Even if this movie is free for you to watch, don't. Don't waste your time. Even if your best friend is on the production team, don't watch it. As a matter of fact, slap him/her right in the mouth.

StudioLAX I put this on expecting to turn it off after ten or twenty minutes but was engaged enough to watch it to the end.It's not brilliant but it is fun, some of the other criticisms are unfair but some accurate, the director has been far too ambitious as evidenced by too many cheap looking FX shots (that said some are pretty good) and action sequences.Given the obvious source material of High Noon I think sticking closer to that story line and racking up the tension with less reliance on dynamic scenes would have been better. This of course would have required half decent acting which for the most part was pretty ropey, but the three leads are competent particularly Elizabeth Mouton.Criticisms aside this film is better than many films a hundred or even a thousand times the budget and wouldn't look out of place on late night TV.All in all a good effort.