American paper Vermont’s Independent Voices Seven Days has reviewed Equinox. Check it out what they said about it:

It’s no surprise to learn that “Equinox” started as an audio drama. Astrid initially announces her intention to tape a radio show about the mystery, a perfect setup for the mockumentary format so popular with horror podcasts.

But the Netflix version abandons the radio-show conceit almost immediately. Rather than follow Astrid’s progress toward the truth in procedural fashion, “Equinox” hops around in time. Flashbacks make us privy to Ida’s perspective in the months before her disappearance, showing us things that Astrid has no way of knowing.

Or should have no way of knowing — because Astrid, it turns out, has always had an awareness of things beyond her ken. She’s not much of a detective or a journalist; viewers expecting a whodunit will be frustrated by the seeming lack of logic with which she investigates. (For instance, after failing to connect with Jakob, she appears to forget about the other two surviving students for a while.) In fact, Astrid is a bit of a basket case — or she’s the only person who’s ever known the truth about what happened, and would still know it if she hadn’t allowed her elders to convince her she was mentally ill.

With its unreliable, often passive protagonist, “Equinox” is closer to moody horror than to mystery. It seems to be aiming for that “Twin Peaks” vibe; any solution is secondary to the realization that everything in ordinary life is woven through with sinister intention.

If the characters’ motivations don’t always hold up, the acting does. Viola Martinsen is haunting and haunted as the psychic 9-year-old Astrid, and several performers do memorably quirky turns in small roles.

The filmmakers excel at creating creepy visual textures. Aerial shots of the woods are a horror cliché these days, but here the drone photographers also get major mileage out of the city of Copenhagen, with its cold, glassy skyscrapers and stone row houses as severe as Victorian matrons. Folkloric motifs — birds, hares — weave their way into the narrative. When Ida and her school friends get involved in the occult, the action moves to a deserted island that becomes the scene of a hypnotically eccentric equinox ritual.

“Equinox” feels like a dream, with less of a climax than a foregone conclusion. And when it’s over, viewers may find most of the story vanishing from memory, as dreams do. But you’ll probably never think of graduation and its associated rites of passage the same way again.