Equinox

1970

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 3752 3.8K

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Plot summary

Due to their possession of an ancient mystic book, four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic and find themselves pitched into a world of evil that overlaps their own. The film was originally made in 1967 by Dennis Muren as The Equinox: Journey into the Supernatural. Jack Woods was hired to shoot additional footage and expand on Muren's work.

Director

Dennis Muren Photo
Dennis Muren

Top cast

Frank Bonner Photo
Frank Bonner as Jim Hudson
Norvelle Brooks Photo
Norvelle Brooks as (uncredited)
Louis Clayton Photo
Louis Clayton as (uncredited)
Jim Duron Photo
Jim Duron as Orderly
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758.57 MB
968*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
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1.38 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jckruize 5 / 10

Drive-in classic from the '70s. Give these guys a break!

Come on, people! This was a zero-budget student film, for God's sake! You can't assess this movie like you would the latest big-budget studio blockbuster. This was an earnest effort of some FX-crazed kids, who did their damnedest to get some cool stop-motion monster sequences on film as a showcase of their talents. Dennis Muren went on to STAR WARS fame and many Oscars, and the late lamented David Allen enlivened many a crappy Charles Band flick (that's actually a redundancy) with superb effects that always belied the pitiful budget he was given to work with. All I know is, my younger brother and I, both stop-motion fans, saw the trailer for EQUINOX at some long-ago Saturday matinée and KNEW we had to see this film. And when we finally did we thought it was COOL! I'd rather see a continuity-challenged, amateur FX effort like this than any multimillion-dollar CG crapfest like VAN HELSING any day of the week!
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Reviewed by hoversj 6 / 10

OK, it's silly, but it scared me as a kid.

Watch this movie late at night, in the right mood, when you're about 12 years old and it's really good. Watch it older, or more cynically, and you will probably find it silly.

It's vaguely Lovecraft-inspired, about four young people who go looking for an old professor they know who's living in a cabin in the woods while he studies "eldritch knowledge". They find his cabin crushed as if by a mighty foot (the model probably was), he's missing and his scary book (I believe it's even titled the Necronomicon) is missing.

For the time the movie was made and the budget they obviously had, I still find it a valiant effort.

How do YOU picture an invisible castle?

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