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The odd thing is that there is a certain small subculture of people in the U.S. that thoroughly enjoy BAD Turkish films, even though they have no grasp of your language.
I've long been an Ed Wood fan, he was a then-little-known writer/producer/director of really awful American films. There was a movie "It Came from Hollywood" in the early 80s that highlighted his and a lot of other really bad American films (mostly from the 1950s).
That's where I discovered Ed Wood. And with videotape, anyone could get these bad films at the store and enjoy them for themselves. What made this better was that these films were usually not copyrighted, so they were CHEAP!
In addition, in the early 1990s, there was a show Mystery Science Theater 3000 where the host and his robot friends made fun of bad cinema (again, mostly science fiction and horror films) while the non-copyrighted films played behind them.
Recently some on the Internet (Seanbaby, I think) discovered some Turkish remakes and posted bits of them on the net. I now own a copy of what they call "Turkish Star Wars" (could that be "The Man Who Saved the World"?). I want to get what they call (and label on the box) "Turkish Star Trek."
These films are kind of a grey area copyright-wise. Whoever is selling the tapes isn't paying the producers. However, the producers of these films didn't apparently get the rights to make Turkish versions of the American original films like E.T., Star Trek, Star Wars, The Excorcist, etc.
It's both hard and easy to find these films on videotape. You won't tend to find them at Walmart. Usually you'll find that at odd record stores or at swap meets.
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