But the bottom line is that that movie made money, which led to the inevitable Exorcist knock-offs, and that gave us one of the greatest periods for B-movie horror in history! It was the perfect storm of the bell-bottom 1970s, the golden age of Italian Giallo, the American Satanic Panic, and film-makers fumbling around with no idea what to do with demons. Horror films for decades had been dominated by vampires, werewolves, mad scientists, Poe and Lovecraft, and now all of a sudden it was demon season. “What the hell’s a demon?” “I dunno, but just stick horns on one of our monster props and find a girl who can act crazy, they’ll never know the difference!”

So we’re presenting a special edition of Unburied Trailers: Exorcist knock-offs, from the decade where everybody in the 1970s replaced their beds with mechanical bull rides.