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  • I just watched this a few months back on TCM Underground and I loved it!!!

  • i got the movie in my playlist Equinox (1970)

  • I have a copy of this--Love it!!

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  • Oh, end i forgot to make fun of this. I like how the narrator screams "EQUINOX!" every 10 seconds of the trailer.

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  • "A story that defies logic" Truth in advertising!

  • so bizarre.

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  • If Return of the Living Dead was my first zombie movie, than this was the first horror movie I ever watched. It scared the sh*t out of me, and looking at it today, Im thinking: what the f*ck scared me.

  • @WackyHades374 The production values?

  • @OpheliaImmortal Actually, I think I got freaked out cause it wasn't a happy ending. I watched this when I was 7 I think, and all the movies I had watched had a good ending. But this one didnt.

  • @smitwil2015 Whoops, used my other account.

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  • The monster animation reminds me of Ray Harryhausen's style.

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  • Love it

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  • Loved this film first saw it when I was about 8 in the early 80s

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  • This is like the original Evil Dead(1981).

  • @NinjaGhostScorpion no. For Grand Parents

  • How can you get this flick without dropping 20-30 bucks on it because Criterion decided to get their hands on it?

  • @CLewey44 Find the old VHS released in the 80's. I think 20-30 dollars is worth it though. You get both versions of the movie, along with commentary by Jim Danforth and Dennis Muren. Tons of cool features on the second disc also.

  • @CLewey44 Plus, Criterion restored the film completely, so this is the best transfer of the movie. Another reason to buy. If you have never seen it, rented it off Netflix is another option.

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  • I have seen this movie a couple of years ago on AMC. The Equinox is corny, but in a good way.

  • Skrillex

  • @wernsels f@ggot

  • @samslandsandgrooves

    You seem like an amazing person -_-

  • @wernsels you got lost on your way to the stupidest music video ever. my person isnt the one you should be concerned with....

  • @samslandsandgrooves

    Well here is a man that calls another a faggot, and ends up telling the person in question that he's looking for 'the stupidest music video ever' . First off, I was just listening to a song (no video whatsoever) of an artist I like. The funny thing is, that you're watching the trailer for an extremely old and outdated film with terrible special effects, and cliche's all around. The fact that this is old, doesn't make it good. Typical case of the pot calling the kettle black

  • @wernsels skrillex sucks ive seen him live in los angeles on a big system too and he just sucks. ask any real dj. i got linked to this from a rock song someone posted this in the comments as a joke lol. then i saw you leaving your skrillex slime here like a slug

  • @wernsels he also played at petco park and i decided not to go because the venue isnt great and everyone i know that went said it wasnt very good. why do you think he goes around and plays a bunch of all ages shows? hes the justin bieber of dubstep

  • @wernsels i never said anything about this film so i dont know why you feel the need to tear it down. i dgaf. skrillex isnt an artist really. he is famous. but his shit isnt art. he uses the same synths, drums, and strings in every song. and the same samples. its like he has one folder worth of sounds that came with his software and he has never left that folder. if you really think this pot called you the kettle black maybe its because this pot is shiny stainless steel

  • Dr. Waterman (you can see his face clearly at 1:14) is none other than Fritz Leiber, Jr., a great American science-fiction and fantasy authors of the 20th century. (Look him up on Wikipedia) Nice touch having him as keeper of the Necronomicon, as Lovecraft was an early influence on Leiber!

  • I saw this movie at a drive inn I thought it was very scary when I was 10. The Abominable Dr Phibes was playimg plus one more i can't recall.

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  • I taped this movie off of AMC a few years back, Stan Winston was the host. Despite everything wrong with this movie, I really like it! It's great! I think someone should remake it ( NOT Micheal Bay) Or there should be a prequel. Or a sequel. Anyone?

  • @iamthesun62 I hate to tell you this. The movie was remade by Sam Raimi. It's called: The Evil Dead!

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  • best movie of 1970

  • This is some of David Allen's earliest work. His later work included Batteries not included, Freaked, and The Gate.

  • @Catalyst455931 Dave Allen didn't work on The Gate. Randall Wiliam Cook worked on that one.

  • @AtorTheFlyingEagle

    Are you sure, 'cuz I've seen it mentioned a few times that he worked on the final creature of the film. Might it have been unofficial?

  • @Catalyst455931 Possibly. I'm not sure if Cook mentioned him on the audio commentary for the Lion's Gate DVD. They both worked together going back to the late seventies, so he might have assisted. The creature at the end was the only actual stop-motion creation. The other small demons were actors in suits.

  • the sad part about this trailer is that it does not show the only good part of this movie...the part where the policeman turns into the devil...to this day, thats the part i remember the most about this flick...i was 9 years old at the time, but i remember it like it was yesterday.

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  • Lmao!! Too funny!

  • @NinjaGhostScorpion GP- god protests. if you don't believe me, look it up.

  • lol "a story that defies logic", well, they warned you.

  • Too bad this wasn't used in MST3K. I can hear the WKRP references from Mike & the bots already.

  • one of my favourite "monster" flicks ... check out the criterion edition, stunning visuals and practical effects. love it.

  • you know, everyone i know says this is the basis of Evil Dead based on the simiaritys. I hope not, because then EVil Dead iscn't as awesome.

  • Cryptozoology  novel see video book trailer

  • The truly frightening thing about this movie is that probably influenced Sam Raimi & Don Coscarelli.

  • To think that Sam Rami took the same idea, and made the Evil Dead!

  • I actually watched this movie not that long ago. Not as good as Horribly Sexy Vampire. hahahahahaha

  • "A story that defies logic...." Well on that front, this movie truly delivers.

  • this movie scared the hell out of me when i was a kid. i saw it on creature feature.it looks sooooo corny now but i would still watch it again!!

  • This is the first "horror" movie I ever saw with my sister when we were kids. Started my love of the horror genre.

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  • "as four teenage boyst and girls..." Haha.

    didn't even bother to fix the bad narration.

  • Herb ended up at WKRP in cincinatti. Forced to wear ugly sport coats, and answer to guys like Andy and Mr Carlson,......for the rest of his days.

  • Is that guy at 2:07 taking a leak??

  • I think I saw this on video once a LOOOOONG time ago.... I had to see it b/c of the stop-motion monsters... wasn't even close to Harryhausen's work. disappointing. still cool.

  • It looks ridiculous now, but I remember this being played on "Creature Double Feature" when I was, like, seven....and it scared the ever-loving shit out of me!!

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  • Criterion Collection

  • Herb Tarlek's first movie?

  • This is what it would look like if H.G. Lewis had ever got to work with Ray Harryhausen!

  • eeeeeeeeeeeeequinox.

  • Does this take you back to a simpler time when life was so fresh and innocent you didn't even realize what a shitbomb this movie was?

  • @oeyesea OMG...SO TRUE!!! LOL!! Thanks for a really good laugh. I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself! :D It really was a bomb...and not a good one!

  • MIKE ROSS!

  • Is that Dusty Springfield?

  • Awesome. MY name's Asmodius.

  • "A story that defies logic!" Is that to tell us it's poorly written?

  • In Supernatural Color!

  • The model of Minaton is just over 16 inches high about the same size of Talos, and required stiff but at the same time fluid movements.

  • I remember this movie as a kid in the early '70's. Even back then people knew it was an incredibly cheap bargain basement production.

  • This movie inspired the evil dead

  • Man. I saw this movie on TV in the late 1970s on one of those Saturday afternoons and I forgot most of it but the one scene I NEVER for got was at the end when he was hollering for his "cross" and how that woman was coming to the hospital....with a knife.

  • Herb Tarlek!!!

  • good movie

  • Ranger Osmodious rocks it old school

  • This movie looks fine, but why the f*&^ would I wanna spend 40$ for the criterion release. I don't think I've spent that much on one single movie, unless you count box sets. Criterion has to re-thing their pricing. I mean they're great quality, but i've gotten some great special editions with huge booklets for under 20$ new;

  • This movie is rated gp. lol

  • i know that everyone says that this movie inspired/influenced The Evil Dead or the The Evil Dead ripped it offf but as a huge fan of The Evil Dead trilogy, i've done my research and do believe in the possibility that they're not lying when they said that they had no idea that this movie even existed. Flame me all you want, but that is what i believe. i am insanely curious though about this movie and would like to see it myself.

  • @TheDeaditeSlayer I think it's different enough that I believe Raimi and Campbell. It's not like the example of The Lion King. I mean, there were other "kids in the woods" movies.

  • Nice to see someone who agrees!

  • Just got this in thru netflix today.. Looking forward to finally watching it.

  • Just remember the line from 1:01 ("EQUINOX...A Story That Defies Logic!)

    Enjoy those "unspeakable horrors".

  • EQUINOX!

  • is this film good in a scary way or is it cheap like this trailer?

  • Well, I wouldn't say it's very scarry, certainly not to a grown adult person anyway ( now, little kids might get nigmares from it though ). It's more of a science - fiction / fantasy flick than a horror flick,.. and it's pretty cheap and amaturish, but does have some talented folks involved ( namely effects artist David Allen ). You pretty much have to be a fan of fantasy cinema inparticular to take interest in it.

  • everyone about this movie is absolutely terrible. i recommend it.

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  • @7thrank i didnt see it.. send me the link, if you will

  • Now all we need is "The thing with two heads" and it's a party!!

  • That one guy sure is a TERRIBLE actor !! ....just get a load of his facial expresions at 0:11 and 0:20 !

    So who did the animated monsters for this flick ?

  • David Allen did it.

  • what?..the irish comedian with the cut off finger?..i thought it was herb tarlek..

  • No the famous stop motion animation director. He worked on Crater Lake Monster, the first Puppet Master, Batteries Not Included and so on. He died in 1999 of cancer.

  • He also did the famous King Kong car commercial in the 1972.

  • oh awesome!! thanks for letting me know..ah..im sorry you had me at a disadvantage..the only david allen id ever heard of was the irish comedian..and frank bonner was in that film..he ended up as herb tarlek on WKRP..

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  • Let's not forget ole Flesh Gordon !! Those penis monsters were absolutely classic,.. and truely the first of their breed too !!

  • But I remember clear as day, "Equinox! EQUINOX!!", AND Bob Wilkins' deadpan delivery every weekend.  Wonderful

  • scared the pants off me when I saw it on UHF (remember those crazy channels?) late one night in the early seventies. I only half understood it, but I had a hard time sleeping! Hey, forgive me if this was on another thread, but I heard it took four years to make this low-budget gem (money probs), and all the "kids" aged out of their roles, but continued to wear peddle-pushers and Beach Boy do's clear thru the end--gotta admire their spirit!

  • scared the living HELL outta me..i saw this then was up all night painting tank models..then The Hilarious House of Frightenstein would come on at like 5 am..i still dont sleep well..

  • Know whatcha mean. YetI doubt kids today would bat an eye over it--or anything else. They've been exposed to media meyhem since birth!

  • haha! sorry to hear that!..if yer from the states i doubt you ever saw HHOF then..(you can see bits of it here on YT..it was a comedy show with Vincent Price about horror movies, Dracula, Mummys, etc) it was always on at 5 am or some obscene hour..and it would kinda take the edge off a night of schlock horror flicks that terrified a pre-teen like me..good thing i had all that airplane and tank glue to get me through the night!

  • Oldest teenagers ever!

  • Today is Equinox!!!

    On September 23rd, 2010 we will all be DEAD!!!!

  • This is why I love youtube, you can find all the crap you saw as a kid right here!

  • @siddarkly Hey man, youtube even has Uncle Milton Berle during the invention of sound.

  • Could somebody tell me the name of this.

  • "equinox...Equinox....EQUINOX!­" (as per the film)

  • "A story that defies logic..." Quite an admission there.

    In a year and a day you will be DEAD!!!!!!!!!!

    I saw this on television in the late 70's and that part really stood out as a scary moment.

  • Used to be a staple on Creature Features hosted by Bob Wilkins- RIP. And yes...it was so bad it was good.

  • Bob Wilkins and the Everpresent Cigar!  He was the best, eh?

  • Bob Wilkins was my first childish crush---it must have been his frequent 3rd-tier Star Trek guests!

  • He was so 'not creepy' ... Mr Joe Normal and it worked!

  • Has to be seen to be believed, rock bottom at worst, campy and cheesy at best.

  • One of my all time favoriet cheesey movies, bad in a very entertaining way.

  • I just got this today! I can't wait to watch this madness!

  • Whered you get it?! I want it badly!!!!

  • This movie is so bad, it's good. Mr. Azmodeus is so evil when he drools! Fuckin' hilarious movie.

  • check out planet of dinosaurs 1978 on this site, that movie is a good dinosaur movie chadsextoid1!

  • That looks like one cheep ass B grade psychedelic horror movie, I mean they could only afford that cheep ass 1960ish car thing to run that dude over with. Makes Blaxploitation look like Waterworld

  • I love Mr. Asmodius! my friends and i watch this every time they come over.

  • Like a cross between Evil Dead and a Scooby-Doo episode. Don't believe the park ranger's lies!

  • It inspired Evil Dead, show respect my friend.

  • We ran into Bruce Campbell a few years ago and asked him. He blew up on us, stating that Raimi had not seen the film and that it was completely original. I, however, agree with you - too many similarities between the two.

  • Atleast he didnt play a Duran Duran song for you lol

    But seriously, thanks. I hate original movies getting shun just cos the new copies are more famous or gorier.

  • Bruce Campbell denying this didn't inspire The Evil Dead reminds me of the time Disney got sued for The Lion King. The latter was a remake of sorts of Jungle Taitei,known in the US,as Kimba The White Lion. Disney reps claimed they knew nothing of the original and Matthew Broderick thought he was doing a remake when he read for the part. Go fucking figure.

  • You say you ran into Bruce Campbell a few years ago, was anybody hurt?

  • Only our feelings were hurt. I guess he's heard that question before. But at least he was nice enough to record a voicemail message for my friend.

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  • hhhhhhhhhhhhy

  • At 1:19 it's Herb Tarlek from WKRP in Cincinnati.

  • What was that name again?

  • How did the crew of MST3k miss this pig turd of a movie?! This is just ripe for the ripping!

    I can just see Crow blurting out ,Grandpa?! when that chick finds the skeleton in the cave and then an old man pops up!

  • Well, it's better than, say, Manos. and the effects are pretty good when you consider it was done as a student project.

  • Ah, Manos.....hand of FATE..." what a deliciously awful movie! Mystery Science Theare 3000 did a fun job with it!

  • Get stoned and watch it for the first time

    H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S

  • Thank you, you just explained to me why my husand loves this film so much, I've been trying to figure it out for years: He only watches it when he's baked.

  • Have him watch "Flight of the Concords" baked...truly life altering....

  • Hey Joe, Fuck, even I'd watch Flight of the Concords baked, and I don't even smoke.

  • I loved the movie, watched in the 70s on channel 36's Shock Theater

  • Well I liked this Movie.

  • OK,i know its a cheesy movie,but it still kinda scared me as a kid!lol

  • I actually went to see this as a (sort of) date at a sleazy run down 42nd street theater. She kids me about it till this day! And this was almost 40 years ago!

  • that was a classic date cause this was a classic(though cheesy) movie.i saw many movies on sleezy times square strip myself...including DEEP RED and the devil within her and doctor detroit!!!great memories.i have EQUNOX DVD!!!!HOME MADE but great!!

  • Oh, this is hilariously cheesey. Did MST3K do this one? If not, they shoulda!

  • the worst movie ever. it is weird and the special effects are terrible.

  • duh

  • the girl with the short blond hair was a very good friend of stevie nicks back in the day!!!

  • the blair witch project of it's day!!! one of my favorite films and a classic of stop motion!!!

  • The best line in the whole movie: "What... aaaare you?" I recommend everybody see it. I think 6 people have taken me up on that challenge. 2 thought it was terrible, 4 will cherish it for life. You decide.

  • hahah when he gets ran over somone is clearly in the car driving it hahaha thats pretty good lol

  • I remember seeing this as a kid...scared the crap outta me! I knew he was doomed when they took his cross at the end...!

  • Before there was Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead", there was EQUINOX! Yep, this movie also took years to make because of it's budget like E.D. The story was a good idea, I hope this cult classic can be remade. For the fans of this film, there is a special ed. dvd with lots of extras!

  • Don't say that R word!

  • You are right about the "R" word (remake) TheForgottenFlesh, it was a hopeful reflex. I forget that most remakes change the the MAGIC FORMULA that made the ORIGINAL film great. Like "War of the Worlds" by Spielberg, Steven wanted to convey his own family problems into the movie, BIG MISTAKE! And he wanted to have the invasion happen in our time, rather than like the book (I enjoy) in the 1800's. For now, I'll watch EQUINOX on dvd, as the cult classic it is. "I want that BOOK!" - said the Fox.

  • Right. I thought that WOTW remake was absolute trash. Same with that Day The Earth Stood Still remake. Why can't they just leave it alone. I'd rather a long lost sequel or prequel instead of a remake. Someone said they wanted to see the original Godzilla remade. I said "Why so they can put bad CGI, terrible actors and forget the whole message and meaning of the story?" Sorry but i'll take a guy in a suit or stop motion over CGI anyday.

  • I highly agree with your words and echo them.

    There is a great website called SCI-FI FORUM (.org), I read an article called "Godzilla vs Daikaiju (giant monsters)" from the a Sci-Fi movie thread. It clearly discribed Godzilla's origin, so much so, I would like to see it made as a movie (check it out). Thanx for the movie chat, it was fun.

  • The R word makes me nauseous.

  • I mean come on this years remakes include

    Friday The 13th

    Nightmare On Elm Street (With Billy Bob Thorton as Freddy Kruger)

    The Wolf Man (Which actually I'm looking forward too)

    I Spit On Your Grave (Like that's going to go over well. It will probably be like half an hour long.)

    Last House On The Left (Again, not going to go over well at all)