Equinox

Mar 30, 2009 | No Comments | @andrewmarcec

This student film turned motion picture (I’d say major motion picture, but chances are non of you have seen this) can only be described as “Evil Dead meets Clash of the Titans”.  I heard about this film over 12 years ago when I really started getting into the Evil Dead movies, it was reccomended as something along the same lines, but it was incredibly hard to come by.  Now, thanks to the Criterion Collection and Netflix I was able to quench a 12 year thirst.

The film revolves around two couples who go into the woods for a picnic, and also to find a professor.  The students explore the countryside in all its glory, and stumble upon an old cave with a crazy person in it, and a park ranger who is stalking them.  The crazy old man gives the students a book that opens a portal to another world (are you seeing the Evil Dead similarities yet?).

After a few run ins with the park ranger, who is Satan (don’t worry it’s not a spoiler…I mean this film doesn’t have a lot of depth.), and he tries to rape the women (he looks like this when he does it).

The teens run into some otherworldly monsters set on the destruction of the world.

Long story short the evil doesn’t die, just transfers bodies and the main character ends up in a mental institution after a brief run in with death who tells him he will die in 1 year and 1 day.

The movie, although incredibly low quality and a direct shot for shot remake of the student film, is entertainingly bad I can see how it inspired so many other horror films.  Evil Dead (the book, the professor, the cabin he lives in, the demons) also Phantasm (at one point they enter into the demon dimension and they use the same camera trick in Phantasm in the white room.  The demons look like they were sculpted by Ray Harryhausen and I almost expected to see Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna run around in the background of shots.

Would I watch it again?  Maybe for pure camp value…but I wont move it to the top of my Netflix queue.

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