Equinox (film)

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Equinox

Directed by	Jack Woods Dennis Muren
Produced by	Jack H. Harris
Written by	Mark Thomas McGee Jack Woods
Starring	Edward Connell Barbara Hewitt Frank Bonner Robin Christopher
Cinematography	Mike Hoover
Distributed by	Tonylyn Productions
Release date(s)	October 1970
Running time	80 min.
Language	English
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Equinox is a horror movie by Jack Woods. It is assumed to have inspired Evil Dead, yet this has not been confirmed.

While studying business at Pasadena City College, Dennis Muren spent $6500 to make Equinox, which at that time was a short science fiction film. Tonylyn Productions, a small film company, liked the film enough to distribute it. Tonylyn hired film editor Jack Woods to direct additional footage in order to make Equinox into a feature-length movie. When the feature-length Equinox was released in October 1970, Muren was credited as a producer in spite of having directed much of the film and creating the special effects himself. The movie made enough money for Muren to recoup his $6500 investment.

It was released on DVD in June 2006 as release 338 in The Criterion Collection.