{"id":215,"date":"2008-02-03T06:28:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T20:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/equinox\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T06:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T20:36:47","slug":"equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Equinox<\/strong> [aka The Beast] (US-1970; dir. Jack Woods)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Equinox<\/strong> is a B-monster flick that manages to combine various giant monsters with surreal supernatural adventure, time travel, a Lovecraftian sensibility, holes in the space-time continuum, rampant cavemen, teenagers doing what teenagers do (in these movies anyway) and stop-motion SFX by Dave Allen, Jim Danforth and Dennis Muren. After being unavailable for so long, Criterion recently released it (at a rather high price) in a nice transfer. Here is a trailer:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mE1UlPPId-o&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mE1UlPPId-o&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here are the stop-motion scenes, conveniently compiled for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4gfsvt8YDV8&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4gfsvt8YDV8&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equinox [aka The Beast] (US-1970; dir. Jack Woods) Equinox is a B-monster flick that manages to combine various giant monsters with surreal supernatural adventure, time travel, a Lovecraftian sensibility, holes in the space-time continuum, rampant cavemen, teenagers doing what teenagers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/03\/equinox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,4,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}