Before I close this exploration of 70's post-EXORCIST films, I would like to point out a movie which is, if you are as fascinated by the subject as I truly am, a wonder to behold. In searching for material, I was sent a video of Turkish origin. Maybe the correct way of describing it is that this movie is a true counterfeit of Friedkin's film. A doppleganger, if you care to take it further. Unlike ABBY or UN URLO NELLE TENEBRE which were heavily inspired by the '73 film, SEYTAN/"Satan" (D: Metin Erksan) steals scene per scene (and I am not making this up!) - and possibly word for word - almost every important and non-important aspect of THE EXORCIST right down to similar camera angles and, of course, Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" score. The difference is, considering that Turkey is predominately an Islamic country, the demon and the clerics are Islamic. [hier]

Das ist umso interessanter, als der Regisseur Metin Erksan nicht irgendein Dilettant ist, sondern einer der angesehensten Vertreter seiner Zunft in der Türkei. 1964 gewann er den Goldenen Bären in Berlin für "Trockener Sommer".