The chief selling point of this film is the participation of Dennis Muren, the special effects expert who was involved in all of the Star Wars films. The Equinox... A Journey Into The Supernatural, is his first film, a very, very low budget fantasy.
The film somehow got deemed worthy of the deluxe Criterion touch. The people involved did a good job of stretching a buck on the special effects, but the actual film itself is nothing very special. There are plenty of first time filmmakers who have made much better films, but you can be sure they will never receive the Criterion treatment.
A lot of the plot seems mighty reminiscent of The Evil Dead, but regardless of what you think of Sam Raimi, this film has none of his style, the whole thing comes off as being made by a bunch of nerds who are aping better horror and fantasy films.
It was nice of Criterion to preserve someone's home movie for them but the viewer and buyer is advised to beware, the pictures make the film look cooler than it is.
80 minutes, written by Jack Woods.
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