The Exorcist's imitators possess The Bad Movie Bible
Rob Hill's international tour of possession cinema approaches 150,000 views during a week without new uploads.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Borrowing Blockbusters: The Exorcist
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- 1:30Italian imitations add their own exploitation ingredients, beginning with Enter the Devil.
- 11:17Turkey's Şeytan adapts The Exorcist's story into an Islamic context.
- 23:04Television entries include The Possessed, featuring Harrison Ford, and failed pilot Good Against Evil.
- 32:26Hill returns to the original film's making, casting and box-office success.
- 49:36The survey expands to possession films from India and Hong Kong.
- 56:24Spoofs include Repossessed and Teenage Exorcist.
Italy gets the first stop, but Rob Hill's tour of Exorcist imitations travels much further: Turkey, Spain, Latin America and Asia all have their own answers to the spinning-head blockbuster.
"Borrowing Blockbusters: The Exorcist" is The Bad Movie Bible's busiest video for daily views, despite arriving more than a fortnight ago. Hill moves from Italian entries such as The Antichrist and Beyond the Door to Şeytan, the Turkish adaptation that relocates the story into an Islamic context. Later, the essay makes room for Harrison Ford's appearance in the television film The Possessed and the comedy of Repossessed. It is a film-history itinerary with rather a lot of exorcisms along the way.
There were no new uploads this week, but the catalogue brought in roughly 96,000 views. Daily viewing is modestly above the channel's usual level, while subscribers held steady. Among nearby-sized film and television channels, The Rest Is Entertainment had a much larger week; Dark Corners Reviews also drew more weekly views, while Sardonicast had a quieter spell.
Hill's older recommendations have their own staying power. "A Top 10 Best Worst B-Movie Sequels" and "Borrowing Blockbusters: Evil Dead", both around two years old, are each drawing several hundred views a day. The latter follows another trail through Italian imitations, borrowed titles and regional oddities: plenty more questionable cinema for anyone finishing the Exorcist tour.
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Which actor stars alongside Linda Blair in the possession spoof Repossessed?
Leslie Nielsen plays Father Mayii in the 1990 comedy Repossessed.




