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Young Gül (Canan Perver) is behaving rather odd and a bit scary, as if
she was possessed, so her mother (Meral Taygun) takes her to a clinic, but
all the doctors try is to drug her and give her electric shock treatment -
and before long mamma realizes this is the wrong approach and takes the
girl back home. But then mama's boyfriend Ekrem (Ekrem Gökkaya) is killed
under mysterious circumstances while looking after Gül, and mother
realizes something has to be done, especially since a cop (Erol Amac)
starts snooping around and asking questions.
Mother calls in Tugrul (Cihan Ünal), a psychologist specializing in
demonic possession and its roots in the subconscious, and at first his
approach seems promising - but eventually, Gül or whatever possesses Gül
wins the upper hand and starts to screw with Tugrul's mind, so Tugrul has
to give up everything he has believed and call in a bona fide exorcist
(Agah Hün), who uses every trick in the book to help the girl, but
eventually the devil that possesses her proves to be stronger than even
him and kills him, which is when Gül openly attacks the girl and tries to
strangle her, only to make the devil leave her and instead possess him at
which moment he throws himself out of the window to his death - but at
least he has saved the girl ...
Quite obviously, Seytan is a thinly disguised Turkish version of
William Friedkin's 1973 box office hit The Exorcist, with all the
prominent special effects (like the headspinning or the pea-soup puking)
and some of the music (especially Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells) firmly in place but the Christian symbols by and large removed - but not
really replaced by Islamic symbols. Of course, the Turkish film, made on a
very modest budget, cannot compare to its big budget American blue print
in pure production values, and Friedkin's masterpiece is of course the
better film, no question, but Seytan does have all the charm of an
a bit dated 1970's B-shocker. If that's necessarily a good thing is left
for you to decide, but I actually liked the film in a way.
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