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Good concept, poorly executed.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

B movie god Wings Hauser and the always amusing Bo Hopkins are the heroes in this follow-up, of sorts, to the 1984 infection-horror flick "Mutant" (a.k.a. "Night Shadows"). A creepy albino villain (the great screen heavy Brion James) is conducting an insidious experiment on a remote Southwestern town called Canyonlands, contaminating the water supply and turning the citizens into maniacs who attack others and spew green acid instead of blood. Wings is a big city entertainment lawyer who teams up with loner Bo, local sheriff George Kennedy, and Kennedy's hottie daughter / deputy Kimberly Ross to save the day.Co-written and directed by celebrated cult filmmaker Nico Mastorakis, "Nightmare at Noon" is less of an outright horror film than its predecessor, concentrating mainly on action. And it delivers action in spades: gunfire, explosions, human torches, vehicle stunts, you name it. Overall, it's pretty derivative, but it's also pretty damn entertaining for this sort of low budget fare. It's filmed using gorgeous Utah scenery, has some enjoyably nasty violence, and its story moves along more than adequately. Future "name" composer Hans Zimmer contributes to the score, along with Stanley Myers, and it's good stuff. The final helicopter chase does go on for an absurdly long time, though.Wings plays a guy who is rather insufferable at first, but he becomes more engaging as he moves into heroic mode. Bo is as watchable as he's ever been. Ever-likable Kennedy, the adorable Ross, "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" final girl Kimberly Beck gets to chew up some scenery as Wings' victimized wife, and Neal Wheeler is a hoot as local old codger Charley, one of the first on-screen victims of the infection who goes psycho in a diner. James, who never has to utter a word, is a true sight to behold, especially when the albino and his henchmen go on horseback towards the end of the story.A fun movie with a strong Western influence, "Nightmare at Noon" shows B flick enthusiasts a fairly rousing time.Seven out of 10.

This is another one of those 'townspeople infected by toxins' films along the lines of The Crazies, Nightmare City and Mutant. Especially Mutant, as if this film also has Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins in it.Bo, once again, is playing a cop, and Wings, as you can probably imagine, is playing a moron. Both of them end up in an isolated town which has, very covertly, had its water supply contaminated as some kind of government experiment by an albino Brion James and his cohorts. Anybody that drinks that water goes berserk and starts attacking everybody else. Much hilarity ensues.Bo and Wings, and George Kennedy, and probably some other folks I've forgotten about, find themselves up against an ever growing army of crazy folks running around beating each other up or shooting each other. Wings' wife also gets infected, leading to a scene which calls for the great man to 'emote'. I was rolling around on the floor laughing.This is pure B-movie hokum, but an extremely enjoyable one for all that. I think this may be down to the director being the same guy who made the infamous Island of Death, probably one of the most offensive (and funny) films I've ever watched. He might be making trash, but he's a technically competent director.Highly recommended for folks who love a good b-movie. It slides a bit at the end when it suddenly turns into a western, but it's a fun journey all the same.Look out for the motorcycle explosion scene - so over the top I didn't stop laughing for about ten minutes.

A completely albino Brion James(..everything white, including his eyes and little hat)works for some sort of terrorist organization as he, surrounded by gun-toting hoods in suits, injects a desert community's water supply with a type of toxic liquid which causes those who drink it in the community to go apesh!t, some sort of homicidal rage with their faces skin tone turning a shade of green not to mention their blood. A lawyer, Ken(Wings Hauser)and his wife Cheri(Kimberly Beck)are on a weeks vacation who happen to enter this town after picking up a hitchhiker, Reilly(Bo Hopkins..is this guy cool or what?), an ex-cop thrown off the force for murdering a rapist. Canyonland, the name of the little town, a tiny spot surrounded by a desert mountainous landscape, is the community whose citizens have become homicidal and extremely powerful. The sheriff, Hanks(George Kennedy)and his daughter, Julia(Kimberly Ross)must somehow contain order when chaos has erupted all around them, needing the assistance of Ken & Reilly as once-normal folks attempt to attack the group and each other.This was quite a multi-genre movie. Parts horror, action, western, and zombie movie, it kind of feels like "The Crazies" set in around Utah. The cast is why I'd recommend it to genre fans, but there are lots of action sequences and bizarre attacks such as when one old-timer in overalls named Charlie goes berserk, stabbing a diner waitress in the hand with a knife, tossing Ken and Reilly throughout the establishment like rag dolls, stealing a cop car after throwing Julia over the hood(!), driving his car through a lady with curls still in her hair when she attempts to curse him out for ramming into the back of her vehicle, blasting cars with a shot-gun, and even shooting his own son(..a deputy attempting to secure the shot-gun away from pa)point-blank. You have a mother chasing after her daughter with a butcher knife. A motorcycle rider shooting folks on the street before hitting a car with his bike exploding into a car. Even Ken's wife(..who happen to drink water in the diner)wigs out throwing Julia into a wall! Poor Julia gets thrown around the room by an unhinged Cheri as Ken and Reilly must deal with a scrawny crazed auto mechanic in a junk yard.Looking for something different..this is it. Fans of Wings Hauser will get a kick out of playing against type as a "tenderfoot" yuppie lawyer. And, Bo Hopkins gets to be a laconic hero, chewing gum, wearing his shades, and knowing exactly what needs to be done. And, good ole George Kennedy again portrays the fatherly, trustworthy man of wisdom with reserve and dignity..his fate will leave many mourning.Try it out if just for Brion James as the mute in white who has the technology to render a town without the power to communicate or leave when he sets up an electronic perimeter which shuts down the ability to leave town in your vehicle or call out for help.Lots of shoot-outs and gushing green blood. Even a helicopter chase around mountains. Bodies in slow motion as they propel in the air.

This is possibly one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life. I could talk about everything from the bad acting to the non-sensical plot, but it'd be a waste of time. You only need to watch the first half-hour of the film to know it really sucks. It doesn't even have any camp value to it! This film was so bad, it hurt my feelings!