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Brilliant and touching

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Think of bad movies occupying their own solar system, getting more and more obscure as you drift away from the sun. The inner rings would be occupied by Godzilla movies, bad US monster flicks from the fifties, Italian zombie films. Then you have the Filipino action movies and Kung fu flicks, culminating in a massive gas giant constructed solely of Godfrey Ho ninja films, whereupon things get sparser as you pass the rightly neglected Jess Franco planet and the Andy Milligan asteroid belt. Eventually, just as you are about to leave the system and see what counts for a bad movie to a bunch of aliens, you'd pass the Turksploitation film.Simply known in English as whatever film they are ripping off with the work 'Turkish' stuck in front, these films are not for the faint hearted. I've only watched a few myself, but I do remember Turkish Star Wars being so painful it took a few attempts to get by the initial scenes, which basically involved Turkish actors pretending to be piloting ships while someone actually projected footage from Star Wars onto a wall behind them. I'm not kidding.You have Turkish Spiderman, Turkish E.T, Turkish Some Like It Hot (?), Turkish Wizard of Oz etc etc. These films occurred, from what I understand, not to rip-off successful films for cash (like the Italians did) but because it was cheaper just to remake them in Turkey, rather than pay to import the actual film. Therefore, you get cheap knock offs of Hollywood films at a fraction of the budget, usually with results that will give you a nosebleed.Now, the problem with Seytan (Devil) is that it follows the film the Exorcist almost exactly to the letter. It has the same music, same story, everything. Only it features different people acting in the exact same roles, and doing the exact same things, so what I'm not going to describe is...The Exorcist. Out at an archeological dig, an old man is confronted by an ancient, cheaply made, statue of a demon, and looks at it thoughtfully. Back in Istanbul, some lady is hearing noises in her attic and just about the same time her daughter starts playing with a Ouija board. At the same time again, some writer is having to deal with his mum getting dementia and becoming ill. Blah blah demon possession etc.Nearly everything from the original is included here, from the girl pissing herself at a party, to the medical experiments, to the head spinning and the pea-soup spewing (although here it's like a budget portion of mushy peas). What's toned down is the foul language (no "Your mother sucks cocks in hell" here) and the violation with the crucifix is changed to what might be a letter opener, but it's not clear because even the person translating the dialogue into subtitles admits to being confused...within the subtitles. What you'll also notice if you get bored enough to watch this is that for obvious reasons the Catholicism angle has been removed. You don't have Muslim clerics doing the exorcism (exorcism being common in Islam) rather than two academic types. Everything else is the same however. Only, you know, not as good. Except the bit where the guy tried to punch the demon out of the little girl and the bizarre special effects used to simulate electro-shock therapy.

There's little point describing the plot of SEYTAN, as it's a scene-by-scene copy of the Hollywood smash hit THE EXORCIST, re-staging all of the key moments in a typically Turkish cult film way; i.e. with a minimum of effort and a maximum of unintentional hilarity. Anyone familiar with Turkish trash cinema will know what to expect here, but for those who are not, let me explain succinctly: this is trashy, very cheap-looking, with bad make-up and cheaper effects, a literal point-and-shoot way of making movies. It's also very funny in an unintentional way, unlike the original movie. Expect to hear Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells constantly ripped off on the soundtrack.

"Seytan" is one of the single best cheesy films ever made.**SPOILERS**After several weeks, Gül, (Canan Perver) a young teenager in Turkey, becomes concerned that her mother Aytan, (Meral Taygun) is more concerned with her own problems. When she finds a Quija board in her attic, she uses it to escape from the situations around her. Shortly afterwords, she begins to undergo a strange transformation, acting incredibly strange to her mother, and after repeated doctor visits and tests, she is still the same but are unsure what has happened to her. When the changes soon become violent and dangerous to her and others around her, she is finally able to call in Tugrul Bilge, (Cihan Unal) author of a book on exorcism that was found near her, and together they find that she's a vessel for a Satanic minion, forcing them to try to rid the spirit from her body before she causes more harm.The Good News: This here was a lot better than expected. One of the best parts to it is the incredible unintentional humor on display. The meeting with the hypnotist is a prime example of this. The girl pretends to follow his watch, then with comic timing beyond that of normal non-demons, she punches him square in the crotch. He crunches into a standing fetal position that is so well-acted that it'd be impossible to duplicate without actually ramming something dangerous into your groin. It's so outstandingly funny that it's impossible not to burst into a round of hysterics that last for several minutes. There's also some of the really bad special effects which come to mind, including the way that the self-urination scene is handled. The effect of pee by having a thick gray syrup slop from inside her nightgown and onto her feet in huge globular plops. The effect of the head-spinning and the bed-levitation are even better, providing more humor than outright necessary. The fact that the crucifix scene has been replaced by a letter-opener is one of the few scenes it does right and actually tense, since that's a much sharper tool used in the same area for the same purpose, and it's somewhat uncomfortable to witness the scene as it plays out here. The confrontation at the end is still really tense and epic, mainly because it plays out much longer than the other version and manages to stick out for it's rather insane use of vomit, which is much, much more than the other version and actually manages to creep out due to the sheer use and the fact that it doesn't look at all like an effect that the other one does. All of these give the film it's best part, the unbridled cheese. It's simply incredibly cheesy, due to the humor and familiarity, and manages to help it come out as rather enjoyable because of it. The fact that the scenes in the insane asylum are so fun is due to the fact that those there actually look like crazy people there. The actions, the behavior and the symptoms exhibited are real ones that would be applicable in a real insane asylum, and it's one of the few good scenes in the film. These here are the film's best points.The Bad News: There's really not a whole lot wrong with this one. The main one here is that it's so familiar. It uses the same exact set-up as the original film, where a young girl, living with her well-to-do mother, becomes possessed by Satan after tooling around on a Ouija board. Of course there's the head spinning, the mustard spitting, the message written across her abdomen and even the scene where she comes downstairs to pee herself to the dismay of her mother and her guests. Some of the shots are even exactly the same and the house they use as the setting for most of the film looks pretty much like the one in the other film. Even more is that the film doesn't do anything else drastic with the familiar scenes, simply content to present the same events in the same order with a just slightly-twisted sense of special effects realisticness. Hardly any of the big scenes are handled well, with the biggest one being the head-twisting scene. Here, the girl stands behind a mannequin wearing a different nightgown from her and slowly turns around, looking like an ugly girl turning around behind a scarecrow. It's nowhere near being realistic, but is merely commonplace for the kind of effects that are present in this. They add to the cheesy charm, though, and aren't that bad overall. The main one here will be the incredible familiarity to the other version.The Final Verdict: A really fun and enjoyable cheese-fest that only has the extreme familiarity to hurt it, winding up as a really fun entry. Give it a chance if you're into the extreme cheese side of things, enjoy this genre or having an interest and curiosity to compare the two, otherwise stick to the classy original.Rated R: Language and Violence

Out of all the Turkish rip-off films i've seen, this one is the most palatable in some ways (not the most entertaining, but watchable)... It may have helped that i had subtitles for this one, but part of it was the fact that they follow the Hollywood version very closely, and the basic narrative of the exorcist is solid...On the other hand, this movie is a perfect example of why story and script can only take you so far in a film... The story is almost identical to the Hollywood version with only a few changes to make it more culturally relevant, but the direction and all the cinematic aspects are much worse. The end result is a movie that fails in every way. There are no scares, and every scene lacks intensity compared to William Friedkin's version... You would figure that somewhere in the movie there would be at least one scene that would be superior in some way... Some inventive touch that would surpass the original, but even though every scene has a counterpart in Friedkins film, the Turkish version of the scene is always vastly inferior to the point were it's almost depressing. The lighting isn't even remotely atmospheric, the camera choices are all horrendous (except when they copy friedkins exact camera angles), the acting is soap opera level (at best). This movie is a perfect example of why directors (not writers) are the most important figures behind the creation of a movie. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lucio Fulci (one of the masters of Italian horror) routinley worked with scripts that were much worse than this one, yet consistently churned out movies that were 10 times better. You can't even really use the poor budget as a justification for this film because many of the problems have nothing to do with any budgetary constraints. It's cheap, but that's not why it's bad.Most of these Turkish rip-off films play as pure comedy for me, not this one... There is a bit of unintentional comedy here and there, but it's so close to the original exorcist that you can't help but constantly compare the two and the end result is a greater appreciation of the Hollywood version. It will make you thankful that all movies aren't as blandly made as this rip-off.Worth watching just for the interesting contrast, but not worthy as entertainment of any kind.