Wuchak
The beginning of cabin-in-the-woods horror, sort of
Four college-aged youths go out to the woods north of Los Angeles to visit their professors cabin and have a picnic, but they stumble upon a grimoire and several malevolent creatures are inadvertently unleashed.
Equinox mixes Mysterious Island (1961) with HP Lovecraft and the low-budget weirdness of, say, The Twilight Zone. It was originally made as The Equinox... A Journey Into the Supernatural, a 71-minute flick made for $6500 by Dennis Muren and Mark Thomas McGee in 1967. However, after impressing a producer, a director was hired to shoot additional footage (11-12 minutes) and expand it into a more acceptable feature film with a shortened title. This took a couple of years ...