Poster image courtesy of Wrong Side of the Art
Equinox is a 1970 American horror film. Originally made in 1967 under the title The Equinox… A Journey into the Supernatural it was directed by Dennis Muren, and stars Edward Connell as Dave, Barbara Hewitt as Susan Turner, Frank Bonner as Jim Hudson and award-winning science fiction/horror writer Fritz Leiber as geologist Dr Arthur Waterman. Special effects were provided by Dave Allen and Jim Danforth who later worked on Flesh Gordon, in which he animated a giant monster similar to the ones in Equinox.
Four young adults–Dave, Susan, Jim and Jim’s girlfriend–head into the woods to look for a lost scientist, Dr. Arthur Watermann. The friends have a picnic and glimpse a mysterious castle in the woods. They find that Dr. Watermann’s cabin seems to have been destroyed. A forest ranger, who is Asmodeus in human form, watches over the teenagers. When the group stumbles into a cave, a strange old man presents them with an ancient book filled with magical lore and symbols. Asmodeus sends monsters–a giant ape-like creature with cloven hooves, and a giant green-skinned fur-clad creature–to retrieve the book from them at all costs. The ape-like creature kills the old man. The castle seems to have disappeared, however the friends discover that it has been rendered invisible by magic…
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Categories: 1960s, 1970s, creature feature, monster movie, supernatural
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