Equinox (1970)

PG10/01/1970Adventure, Horror1h 22m
  • User
    Score

Occult Barrier Between Good and Evil

Overview

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 The film was originally made in 1967 by Dennis Muren as The Equinox: Journey into the Supernatural.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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Edward Connell

    David Fielding (as Skip Shimer)

  2. Barbara Hewitt

    Susan Turner

  3. Jack Woods

    Asmodeus

  4. Cast 1

    Frank Bonner

    Jim Hudson (as Frank Boers Jr.)

  5. Robin Christopher

    Vicki (as Robin Snider)

  6. James Phillips

    Reporter Sloan (as Jim Phillips)

  7. Fritz Leiber Jr.

    Dr. Arthur Watermann (as Fritz Leiber)

  8. Patrick Burke

    Doctor Branson

  9. Sharon Gray

    Nurse

**_The beginning of cabin-in-the-woods horror, sort of_** Four college-aged youths go out to the woods north of Los Angeles to visit their professor’s cabin and have a picnic, but they stumble upon a grimoire and several malevolent creatures are inadvertently unleashed. “Equinox” mixes “Mysterious Island” (1961) with HP Lovecraft and the low-budget weirdness of, say, The Twilight Zone. It was originally made as “The Equinox... A Journey Into the Supernatural,” a 71-minute flick made for $6500 by Dennis Muren and Mark Thomas McGee in 1967. However, after impressing a producer, a director...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$8,000.00

Revenue $850,000.00

keywords