Equinox (1970 film) - Revision history

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 * View Trailer:  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctHCMAi8jw link])
 * Criterion Collection presents "Books of the Dead": ([https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2467-books-of-the-dead link]), comparing scenes from ''Equinox... A Journey into the Supernatural (1967 short)'' and ''[[Evil Dead II (1987 film)]]''
 ==Ratings==

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−	* ''[[~~The~~ Evil Dead (1981 franchise)]]'' - there are remarkable similarities between the low-budget original ''The Evil Dead'' and the earlier ''Equinox'', though it's unclear just how much Equinox inspired the more famous ''Evil Dead'' films.	+	* ''[[Evil Dead (1981 franchise)]]'' - there are remarkable similarities between the low-budget original ''The Evil Dead'' and the earlier ''Equinox'', though it's unclear just how much Equinox inspired the more famous ''Evil Dead'' films.

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 * a [[Fritz Lieber|crazy hermit]]
 * some doomed cultists (in a flashback-within-a-flashback)
-* [[Demon#Asmodeus|Mr. Asmodeus, Avatar of a nameless Winged Demon]]
+* [[Asmodeus|Mr. Asmodeus, Avatar of a nameless Winged Demon]]
 * a [[Troll|Green Giant]]
 * the "[[Gug|Taurus]]"

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 * a [[Fritz Lieber|crazy hermit]]
 * some doomed cultists (in a flashback-within-a-flashback)
-* [[Asmodeus|Mr. Asmodeus, Avatar of a nameless Winged Demon]]
+* [[Demon#Asmodeus|Mr. Asmodeus, Avatar of a nameless Winged Demon]]
 * a [[Troll|Green Giant]]
 * the "[[Gug|Taurus]]"

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 * a [[Fritz Lieber|crazy hermit]]
 * some doomed cultists (in a flashback-within-a-flashback)
-* [[Nyarlathotep|Mr. Asmodeus, Avatar of a nameless Winged Demon]]
+* [[Asmodeus|Mr. Asmodeus, Avatar of a nameless Winged Demon]]
 * a [[Troll|Green Giant]]
 * the "[[Gug|Taurus]]"

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 * Rated:  PG (off-screen violence, mild creepiness, and Asmodeus' mouth)
-This seems to have been arbitrarily rated a "G" back in the 1970s, though it's possible the movie might be just a bit too weird and scary for very young kids.  A vaguely "rapey" scene where Asmodeus' mouth attacks a young picnicker in the woods of-camera might be a bit uncomfortable for some viewers (it's unclear what's going on - it's a scene that's reminiscent of vampire attack scenes from earlier films, seems to result in demonic possession, and was billed by the film's publicity as "picking up where ''Rosemary's Baby'' left off!")
+This seems to have been arbitrarily rated a "G" back in the 1970s, though it's possible the movie might be just a bit too weird and scary for very young kids.  A vaguely "rapey" scene where Asmodeus' mouth attacks a young picnicker in the woods of-camera might be a bit uncomfortable for some viewers (it's unclear what's going on - it's a scene that's reminiscent of vampire attack scenes from earlier films, seems to result in demonic possession, and was billed by the film's publicity as "picking up where ''[[Rosemary's Baby (1968 film)]]'' left off!")
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 * [[User:Ywhateley|Y.Whateley]]: My fondly-remembered first contact with a "Lovecraftian" film, which would go on to fuel a life-long interest in the genre.  A low-budget (made for about $6500 in the 1970s) amateur/student film with a generically "Lovecraftian" (or perhaps "Derlethian") pastiche plot with its own mythos featuring some wonderful stop-motion tentacles and other monsters, which seems to have been arbitrarily rated a "G" back in the 1970s, though it's possible the movie might be just a bit too weird and scary for very young kids (I handled this sort of thing just fine on late-night TV as a youngster, in any case).
 * The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review ([http://moria.co.nz/horror/equinox-1970.htm link]) 2 Stars. " One tries to be hopeful about ingénue student efforts but ''Equinox'' is not a very good film. ... If ''Equinox'' had employed Fritz Leiber for his writing skills...it might have emerged considerably better than this."
 ==Synopsis==

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 * [[User:Ywhateley|Y.Whateley]]: My fondly-remembered first contact with a "Lovecraftian" film, which would go on to fuel a life-long interest in the genre.  A low-budget (made for about $6500 in the 1970s) amateur/student film with a generically "Lovecraftian" (or perhaps "Derlethian") pastiche plot with its own mythos featuring some wonderful stop-motion tentacles and other monsters, which seems to have been arbitrarily rated a "G" back in the 1970s, though it's possible the movie might be just a bit too weird and scary for very young kids (I handled this sort of thing just fine on late-night TV as a youngster, in any case).
+* The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review ([http://moria.co.nz/horror/equinox-1970.htm link]) 2 Stars. " One tries to be hopeful about ingénue student efforts but Equinox is not a very good film. ... If Equinox had employed Fritz Leiber for his writing skills...it might have emerged considerably better than this."
 ==Synopsis==