Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

capone666 EquinoxIf you ever get lost in the woods simply start a fire so the water bombers can find you.However, the hikers in this horror movie will need more than controlled burn to defeat these demons.While looking for a missing scientist in the woods a group of friends meet a hermit in a cave who gives them a book containing ancient secrets on the occult. Asmodeus (Jack Woods), the king of demons, wants to get his talons on the tome so he sends an array of colossal monsters to obtain it. With cameos from sci-fi's biggest names - Forrest J Ackerman, Fritz Leiber – this Indy from 1970 does amazing things on a shoestring budget - specifically the stop-motion simian creature - and has gone on to inspire countless filmmakers.Furthermore, it's nice to finally find a discarded book in the wild that wasn't written by a reality TV personality.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

X X There seriously needs to be a new genre for movies like this: "intended horror". There wasn't a single scary thing about it, and I spent most of the film giggling. The shots of "Asmodeus" doing that thing with his lips were more than I could withstand; it was like watching Mick Jagger aping an algae eater and I was rolling on the floor. It looked like the total budget of the film was about $100 and most of that was the gas they used to get to the locations. The claymation scenes would have made the Dr. Who producers blush. A demon who looks like a baboon who soaked his butt and legs in Rogaine? If you want a few laughs, check this one out.

dougdoepke It's a fun spooky movie with a different look and without the usual nighttime menace. It's also an independent production that managed some notoriety, mainly for surprisingly impressive special effects. Actually, Equinox was sort of the Blair Witch Project of its day—a bunch of unknowns hitting it lucky with a shoestring effort. If memory serves, the film even had a run at one of the prestige theatres along Hollywood Blvd. The effects are not so impressive by today's digital standards; however, by 1970's norms, they were the unexpected equal of any A-production.The story itself is pretty well structured in flashback with an effective "hook" to get viewers interested. The plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then it doesn't have to, since we've got King Kong's albino brother, a castle that comes and goes, a lost book of the occult, and a shape-shifting forest ranger who's definitely not Smoky the Bear. Most of the scenes are well staged, except when the ranger gets in the girl's face, contorts his lips, and slobbers, in what I suppose was a wacky metaphor for supernatural sex. Sharp-eyed viewers may recognize Frank Bonner (Boers) from TV's WKRP in Cincinnati as Jim. He's easily the most accomplished of an uneven cast. In fact there's an appearance of a time warp between the clothing fashions worn in the movie and the 1970 release date. In short, the hair styles and skinny pants of the movie are a long pre-Vietnam way from the bell-bottoms and long hair of counter-cultural 1970. I don't know what accounts for this apparent disparity unless release was held up for several years. Anyway, except for the rather hollow sound of the dialogue dubbing, this accomplished little indie remains an underground original.

odbeester "Equinox" is so exquisitely crap-tacular, I have to give it such a high rating. This film really enters the heights that "Plan 9 from Outer Space" rules, and possibly surpasses that legendary Ed Wood opus. It doesn't just fail magnificently, but does so in SO many ways.Where else will you find such deliciously bad dialog, very poorly looped (I'm sure more than half of the dialog was looped - where the dialog wasn't able to be recorded live and had to be dubbed in later, not always by the same person), the worst stop-motion animation on film (was it Claymation?!), stock background music thoroughly misused for their scenes (although the opening theme is way cool), and the most amazing eyebrows ever created for a movie (at least I hope they were fake, for the sake of the writer/director/star - we're talking Brezhnev with eyebrow mousse here).AND it features a young Herb Tarlek! But "Equinox" does deserve its props. Sam Raimi pretty much lifted the plot for "Evil Dead" from this movie. (To much better effect, of course, but still...) And writer/director/star Jack Woods comes up with some clever solutions to shooting difficult scenes. For one scene, where the cast is running through some spooky old caverns, Woods must have thought: "How can we film that? No way can I shoot in the caverns, it'd be impossible to get the light right." Woods solution: show a pitch black picture, with the occasional torch moving across it. Brilliant! There's also a bit where the two male leads have to climb up a steep, almost vertical hill, in order to look for an invisible castle. (Don't ask.) Hey, your boy Herb Tarlek is a manly man, but he ain't climbin' no rock face for you, Jackie boy.So... he has them stoop over on a horizontal section of a trail, and turns the camera so that it looks like they're climbing a steep hill! (I half expected to see Adam West and Burt Ward to pop their heads out of gopher holes.) There were so many times I laughed out loud while viewing "Equinox" that I absolutely recommend it to discernible viewers of unique film landmarks.As Leonard Pinth-Garnell would say, "Awful! Awful! Truly bad! Really bit the BIG one!!"