Production
While studying business at Pasadena City College, Dennis Muren spent $6500 to make Equinox with friends Dave Allen and Jim Danforth, 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.
The Equinox... A Journey into the Supernatural was picked up for distribution by producer Jack H. Harris, who shot new footage for the film with Jack Woods and released it in 1970 as Equinox.
The film includes a cameo from Fritz Leiber as Dr. Watermann, who was signed via the auspices of Forrest J. Ackerman; Ackerman's voice is heard on a tape recorder during the hospital scenes in the movie. Leiber has no spoken lines in the film, only four scenes: one in which he is seen driving; a scene in which he grabs the book from the young people and runs away with it through the woods, then a death scene in which his body mysteriously disappears; a flashback in which we see him reading through the book; and a flashback in which we see him descending the stairs of his forest hideaway while a tentacled creature tears it apart.
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