Exorcist News

Speak to most horror fans of Generation Naughties and most will probably tell you they laughed at The Exorcist or don’t understand why the film is held in such high regard. It’s not an uncommon point of view that seems to be growing stronger as the years go by and …

I have uploaded all of the article scans from my collection – most of you will remember them from the older version of CaptainHowdy.com. You can view the article scans by clicking here. For now they are part of the image gallery but as part of the Exorcist Fansite update …

The Exorcist Fan Forum delivers again.  Forum member daviesrobert was pondering exactly where to go if one wanted to visit the locations for the filming of The Exorcist.  Then, before anyone could investigate further, he surfed the web and came up golden with this hyperlink to movie-locations.com.  Pretty nice and …

It can sometimes be hard to fathom that the film we all love and enjoy is older than the majority of people visiting this site. Today, The Exorcist film “ based on the superb novel by William Peter Blatty and Directed by William Friedkin – is 33 years old. A …

False rumors started kicking around the internet during November that William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist) had passed away. Out of respect I did not post these rumors as I discovered they were proven false “ it was a different male named Peter Blatty who had passed. However, it …

CaptainHowdy.com forum member SLASHerMan recently put together this fan video reflecting on Jason Miller‘s performance of Father Karras in The Exorcist. It’s actually a well-compiled piece (unlike some fan videos out there), and, when you consider the passing of Jason Miller in 2001, it becomes extra moving as you reflect …

Issue #197 of Fangoria was a classic. A special focus on The Exorcist featured interviews with Friedkin and Blatty put some juice back into reading about the greatest horror film of all-time. CaptainHowdy.com contributor and life-member Justin recently put his scanner to work to provide article scans online, and now …

In what has shaped up to be the greatest dominion of Exorcist images ever put online, the image gallery has been updated with 223 screencaps from Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist. Keep on eye on CaptainHowdy.com as there’s many more Exorcist images on their way!

Old forum faithful GhettoExorcist today announced the release of The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology DVD set, due for release in October. Then Justy supplied us with this link. Pretty interesting. It seems it will just be the same old stuff we’ve seen before and likely already own bound in one …

A rare treat for you, dear Exorcist fans “ and because you know you will only get the best Exorcist goodies at CaptainHowdy.com, you dear webmaster (and Exorcist devotee) has followed through today. It was in 1998 when The Fear of God documentary hit BBC screens and joined the 25th …

The independent flick Sin-Jin Smyth is starting to create waves of interest online (check out the official site here). The publicist for the film contacted us to let Exorcist fans know Eileen Dietz will be appearing at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors convention 2-4 June in Burbank, California. Sure, she’ll be …

Fangoria’s Gore Store is flogging new Do-It-Yourself Home Exorcism Kits which have to be seen to be believed.  A $9.95 kit will get you: ¢ 1 purple prayer stole ¢ 1 holy water decanter (unfilled) ¢ 1 bright yellow door hanger: “DO NOT ENTER — EXORCISM IN PROGRESS” ¢ 1 …