Classic Black Cinema Series: ‘Abby’

Exploitation filmmaker William Girdler’s ‘Abby’ (1974), an African American retelling of ‘The Exorcist,’ is a Blaxploitation classic starring veterans of the genre William Marshall (‘Blacula’) and Carol Speed (‘The Big Bird Cage’). Warner Brothers, which released ‘The Exorcist,’ successfully sued to have ‘Abby’ pulled from circulation.