As is the case with many of these movies, I had never heard of "Black Noon" and had it not been for you tube, chances are, I never would have. The movie takes place in the days of the old west and follows a reverend named John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, who find themselves at the mercy of the desert when, out of the blue it seems, they are rescued by folks from a small town. At first, everything seems fine until Lorna starts falling in and out of sickness, until the reverend is seemly bringing "good luck" to the town that had experienced misfortune, and until the wife begins hearing voices and seeing people dressed in strange garb with animal masks in the dead of night. Anyone who's seen enough horror movies probably knows where this is going: its a devil cult and a damn good one too! In fact, I would go as far as to say this probably one of the best devil cult themed movies I have ever seen due to the good acting from Roy Thinnes as the reverend, Ray Milland as the town's leader, the beautiful Yvette Mimieux as "Deliverance", and Hank Worden as old man Joseph. It also helps that the props for the town are very well done and the filmmakers know how to effectively film some creepy, dream like sequences. The only bad thing I can find with the movie is that its been allowed to be forgotten. Still, if you ever get the chance, "Black Noon" is a great way to catch some quality storytelling from an age in which they knew how to do it. P.S. If you should ever find yourself traveling in one of America's great deserts and you come across some people from a town called San Melas, don't accept their help; instead, RUN!!!

Scary, but mostly in the sense that will it be over before I turn 70. I saw this as a late night re-run in about 1976 and thought it would never end. Like crackers, it's better than nothing (but just).Ray Milland is a little scary because he looks as if he's been stuffed by a taxidermist. Yvette Mimeux looks as if she's smoked up all the Beautiful Downtown Burbank Brown. It's a sort of Roy Rogers version of Rosemary's Baby. This is one turkey that should never have been made. If you have insomnia and it's 1:30 on Saturday morning and there's nothing on but replays of the 1972 Roller Derby Chamionship, then I guess it beats that. But God help you if this is your only choice for entertainment.

I feel like I have some uber-rare disease that no one has heard of and I have finally come across a support group on the net! I finally found this title by asking for an answer on an "experts" site on the web. I too, saw this movie in my youth and was struck by the atmosphere and especially the ending. I have never forgotten it and have never seen it since. No one I know saw the film and I had almost given up on ever finding it's title. Alas, even knowing the name, I shall probably never see the film again as it is impossible to find commercially. Small steps...G

This one is a classic late sixties,early seventies horror flick in that the bad guys win in the end. Reminds me a lot of the Orsen Welles's picture "Necromancy". I remember Yvette Mimieux from the film "H.G.Wells' The Time Machine. One of the main characters is played by Roy Thinnes. He starred in a classic Science Fiction TV show "The Invaders". He also starred in a Science Fiction Movie called "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". Also a favorite of mine. This TV movie came out right about the time that Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" TV anthology,and just prior to Sabastion Cabot's "Ghost Stories" TV anthology. The everyone is in on it Plot Device also sort of reminded me of "Murder on the Orient Express". The dark gloomy bad guys always win was a trend in both film making and especially the Horror segment of the industry in the 1960's to 1978-79. Another movie with the same sort of atmosphere is "The Torture Garden" with Burgis Meredith. My favorite part of this movie is the scene as they are leaving town in a pick-up truck and you see that San Melas is Salem in the rear view mirror.