Novels from the 1970s have served as the inspiration for some of Hollywood's most iconic features. Peter Benchley's 1974 novel Jaws spurred not only Steven Spielberg's Jaws, but an entire subgenre of animal attack films that has remained wildly popular. William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel The Exorcist kicked off a trend of demonic possession features that has extended from the direct adaptation, 1973's The Exorcist, up to the recently released Insidious: Out of the Further. Then there's Frederick Forsyth's hit 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal, a novel that revolutionized the spy genre and a highly influential work in its own right.
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