Şeytan | |
Director: | Metin Erksan |
Producer: | Hulki Saner |
Starring: | Cihan Ünal Erol Amaç İsmail Hakkı Şen Ahmet Turgutlu Agah Hün Ali Taygun Ekrem Gökkaya Ferdi Merter Meral Taygun Muzaffer Yenen Sabahat Işık Canan Perver Ergün Rona Ahu Tuğba |
Cinematography: | Nihat Çifteoğlu |
Country: | Turkey |
Language: | Turkish |
Şeytan is a 1974 Turkish cult horror film directed by Metin Erksan that plagiarizes William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).
The film was apparently shot with a low budget, resulting in a grainy and poor image quality, and is essentially a shot-for-shot remake of The Exorcist, with only minor differences. Şeytan was out of print until 2007, when it was released on DVD.
Canan Perver is a 12-year-old girl named Gül, living a high society life with her mother in Istanbul, who becomes possessed by the Devil himself after experimenting with a Ouija Board.
The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on, is commonly known as "Turkish Exorcist" because of plot and stylistic similarities copied from The Exorcist.