Black Horror Journal

The Black Exorcist Drama: Abby Deserved Better

The Black Exorcist Drama: Abby Deserved Better

EPISODE 12 • SEASON 1 00:23:34

In this episode, we explore the legal drama that derailed "The Black Exorcist" and caused it to fall into obscurity until it resurfaced as "Abby," the story of a Christian woman possessed by a demon that ironically frees her, for a brief moment, from her life of being everything for everyone, possession through a patriarchal lens, and more.

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Research

"Abby" Full Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSwjBAYpp0&t=20s

Eshu - Yoruba Orisha

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eshu

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/26/archives/screen-abby-about-a-black-family-and-exorcism.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/movies/carol-speed-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://filmbunnies.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/abby-hoed-william-girdlers-abby-1974/

https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/521122/abby-is-not-your-rip-off-of-the-exorcist/

Sugar Hill: Supernatural Payback x A Brief History Of Voodoo

https://share.alivepodcastnetwork.com/sugar-hill-supernatural-payback-x-a-brief-history-of-voodoo

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