As Evil Dead Burn keeps cinemas possessed, Sally the Zombie Cheerleader's School of Horror presents a forerunning, Lovecraftian classic: Equinox!
Released in 1970, Equinox (aka The Beast, for one of its prominent, VHS releases) features inquisitive, young adults (one played by WKRP's Frank Bonner) who come upon a strange man, a strange book and the consequences of monstrous conjuring in the woods, which will leave the old-school-effects crowd in surrealistic Heaven, or should that be, the damning depths of Hell?
The movie was directed by Jack (Beware! The Blob/Son of Blob) Woods and (in an uncredited capacity) Dennis (The Empire Strikes Back/Battlestar Galactica/Flesh Gordon) Moran. Woods also cowrote the tale with Mark Thomas (Transylvania Twist/Hard to Die/Sorority House Massacre II) McGee, with Jack H. (The Blob/Dark Star/4D Man) Harris and Moran performing as producers. In addition, Moran supplied the effects, accompanied by Jim (Jack the Giant Killer/When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth/Flesh Gordon) Danforth and Dave (The Primevals/Laserblast/Puppet Master) Allen, with several sequences rendered by exquisite, stop-motion animation.
Sally conducts another encyclopedia service for her eager-to-learn fleshies, detailing the movie's production, with creepy trivia and eerie insights for her wraparounds, as her sweet, sarcastic SkeleKat and her dear, demonic dolls spout off snarky jabs.
I gotta say, I do find this School of Horror to be one of Sally's finest. I believe you will, too; so, don't be late for class. The bell's about to ring at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_Ri6cNQSs
