Frontierado is less than four months away and as it gets closer I’ll be doing more and more posts about it. For today, though I’ll do the first of a series of blog posts looking at various fringe westerns that combine horror and science fiction elements with the western theme.
These films aren’t bad enough for my Bad Movie page, but are offbeat for westerns and worth mentioning to start getting us all in the “Frontierado spirit”. Think of me as The Bronson Canyon Kid for these reviews. (bad movie buffs will get it)
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BLACK NOON – (1971) – Roy Thinnes stars as an Old West preacher who runs afoul of a practicing coven of witches. These witches operate out of a western town called Melas (three guesses) and provide Thinnes and his wife sanctuary after their wagon breaks down on their way west. Everything seems okay at first, but gradually it becomes clear that the townspeople are involved in something sinister.
Ray Milland, Henry Silva and Gloria Grahame offer their usual Menacing Creep performances, Yvette Mimieux, Lynn Loring and Leif Garrett are also in the cast of this telefilm as other townspeople/ witches. The most intriguing aspect of the film is the way the witches get Thinnes to stay by appealing to his character’s ego. They pretend they are all impressed with his ways of slinging the word of God and even let him think he’s performing “healings”.
The Black Noon of the title refers to a noon eclipse, when the blackest of the witches’ black masses is performed. The film is just 74 minutes but that’s still far too long for a movie with so little story and with such an obvious punch line (the town’s name).
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Looks like a good one – “Black Noon”.
I like your invented holiday – Frontierado . It sounds like fun.
Thank you very much! I keep spreading the word hoping it will catch on.
And a happy Frontierado to you!!! I like this holiday!!!
I’m glad to hear it! Thank you for stopping by!
only four month to go. That movie sounds very ……uh… good… yeah, it sounds good! Do you believe me?
Ha! No, but that’s okay. Black Noon is another film that would have gone down better as a half-hour episode of an anthology show instead of a movie.