I just watched this film. Absolutely amazing bad film! I looked it up online and apparently the four main characters are supposed to be teenagers. That's hilarious. One of the guys must be in his 30's, and I doubt a single one of them was under 25 at the time. It was also suggested that this film inspired Evil Dead. I don't know if that's true, but when I was watching it Evil Dead kept coming to mind. I looked up the director and this was his only director credit, but he was definately big in the special effects capacity later. Definately a must for bad movie watchers everywhere.
A classick! "MY CROSS! GIVE ME BACK MY CROSS!" :bouncegiggle:
(http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/equinoxcap.jpg)
One of the few movies that actually shows a monster that looks like a typical cartoon devil... :)
I've wanted to see this for a long time o.O
Quote from: Mr. Briggs Inc. on September 03, 2009, 05:17:21 PM
I've wanted to see this for a long time o.O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1UlPPId-o
hehe... what's stopping you?
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 03, 2009, 03:59:29 PM
A classick! "MY CROSS! GIVE ME BACK MY CROSS!" :bouncegiggle:
Yep I remember this one! It was also covered in Famous Monsters magazine when I was a little guy. Some definite inspirations for The Evil Dead, and some say The Blair Witch Project. This one was all over TV when I was a lad.
I wouldn't have pegged the actors for high school students, but college students would be a bit more believable. I knew they were in trouble the minute the sheriff on horseback introduced himself as "sheriff Asmodeus". Nice giveawy :wink:
Wow! never heard of this before, now I have to see it. And it's in SUPERNATURAL COLOR.
I know Mike Vraney from Something weird lists it as his favorite movie but boy I don't get it. the claymatin or whatever is like 20 years behind the times and that's the most notable thing about it
Bonus "bad" points: All of the sound was very clearly recorded in post. All of the dialogue, everything. And badly. Sometimes it's so bad it looks like kung fu movie overdubbing. I read that the director made the movie for $6500. Even with the cheesy special effects and it being in 1970, how is that possible? The actors had to have worked for free.
Quote from: jlb67 on September 04, 2009, 09:47:27 AM
Bonus "bad" points: All of the sound was very clearly recorded in post. All of the dialogue, everything. And badly. Sometimes it's so bad it looks like kung fu movie overdubbing. I read that the director made the movie for $6500. Even with the cheesy special effects and it being in 1970, how is that possible? The actors had to have worked for free.
wow... the movie was a STUDENT PROJECT.
It started in the mid 1960's and Dennis Muren did most of the work after hours (or when he had time and money) and it took him 4 or 5 years to complete.
It worked very well as a career starter...
Dennis Muren has worked on such projects as STAR WARS, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Young Sherlock Holmes, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, ETC. ETC. ETC... Actually if you look at most George Lucas and Steven Spielberg movies you will see Dennis Muren name.
This is one of my favorite bad movies to watch. I laugh the entire time when I watch it. It was the acting debute of Frank Bonner who played Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnatti in the late 70's.
Quote from: meQal on September 04, 2009, 01:43:11 PM
This is one of my favorite bad movies to watch. I laugh the entire time when I watch it. It was the acting debute of Frank Bonner who played Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnatti in the late 70's.
I always think of Bonner when I think of this movie. It's the only thing I can recall seeing him in, other than WKRP.
That and the bizarre closeup drooling sheriff shots.
Quote from: AndyC on September 04, 2009, 03:33:35 PM
Quote from: meQal on September 04, 2009, 01:43:11 PM
This is one of my favorite bad movies to watch. I laugh the entire time when I watch it. It was the acting debute of Frank Bonner who played Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnatti in the late 70's.
I always think of Bonner when I think of this movie. It's the only thing I can recall seeing him in, other than WKRP.
That and the bizarre closeup drooling sheriff shots.
Ever notice that he looks like Robert Picardo with a bad toupee in the movie? At least he does to me.
I suppose he does, now that you mention it.
At first I didn't know what to expect. Especially the Criterion Collection title screen threw me off.
I especially loved seeing the stop-motion humans. Though, all in all it was a ambitious project.
winterbeast has those stop motion things too. It's a few steps to the left of equinox in terms of cheapness and general insanity though
This movie features another actor from my hometown of Malvern, Arkansas Frank Boers (aka Bonner). Two of my brothers knew him as kids.
My brother was watching this movie at the drive-in and was astonished to see Frank appear in it.
Bonner was in another tv series playing a priest in "Just the Ten of Us", which was a spinoff of Growing Pains.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on September 05, 2009, 11:22:52 AM
winterbeast has those stop motion things too. It's a few steps to the left of equinox in terms of cheapness and general insanity though
I just did thanks to your recommendation.
This has got to be the
worst made movie with a coherent plot I have seen to date.
Simply unbelievable. The completely unmatching re-shot footage, the terrible cinematography, the actors, the hilarious special effects, ...
Quote from: jlb67 on September 03, 2009, 10:52:28 AM
I looked it up online and apparently the four main characters are supposed to be teenagers. That's hilarious. One of the guys must be in his 30's, and I doubt a single one of them was under 25 at the time. I.
Is it after Teenagers From Outer Space? :teddyr:
rowsder- I can't front on those stop motion effects though. mainly because I don't understand how they are done. if I did, maybe I could!