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panagos

One of the trashiest trash movies, i' ve ever watched. Complete waste of time... The only thing that i will remember though, is not the monsters, but the ridiculous eyebrows of lol... Asmodeus...
10 months ago
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TheCinenaut

Criterion is not comparing this film to the films of Fellini, Bergman, or Kurosawa. They just think it’s an important film within the low budget horror genre and as an homage to classic creature features.
11 years 12 months ago
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Siskoid

Equinox is essentially Cabin in the Woods 1970 and I would be very surprised, even if it has never been confirmed, that it wasn't a major inspiration for Sam Raimi's Evil Dead. Made on a shoestring budget by future special effects whizzes of the highest caliber (they would go on to work on Lucas and Spielberg productions), the film doesn't look cheap when it comes to effects. The stopmotion and composited elements show impressive, even confounding, integration (and I think part of the effect is that the movie looks like '50s B-movie fare, so the sfx look even more cutting edge). As a story, it's a weird one, with kids going on a picnic and running afoul of a park ranger called Azmodeus, and they think nothing of it. A second director hired to lengthen the movie for theatrical release added a rapey moment that makes you squirm in your seat, and I'm not sure what else, but probably the creepy clock opening and the Lovecraftian bookends. Where Equinox shows its cheapness is with the sound, every actor (and I'm being generous using that label for most of them) is looped rather dryly. This was always more of a portfolio for effects artists, and certainly has historical value given what these guys eventually went on to do, but it has an intriguing story too. The backyard home movie acting unfortunately made me disengage from it.
3 years 6 months ago
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xianjiro

you're right @skaggs1995, Assmodeus ate it while I watched
4 years 5 months ago
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ClassicLady

Surprisingly, a pretty good cheesy movie. Interesting to note this is Frank Bonner's (Herb Tarlic of "WKRP in Cincinnati" fame) debut acting film and Ed Begley, Jr. ("St Elsewhere" fame) is assistant cameraman.
9 years 1 month ago
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skaggs1995

If you don't like this film, then you have no soul
11 years 7 months ago
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mightysparks

Totally awesome.
12 years 3 months ago
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Brantastic16

The worst movie I've seen in a long, long time.
12 years 5 months ago
Runar's avatar

Runar

Yeah, it's more like a movie for MST3K than for Criterion.
13 years ago
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akuma587

One of the best low-budget movies ever made.
14 years 3 months ago
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