Exorcist News

I’m guilty of having Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells tune bellow from my phone while receiving a call, all tinny and distorted as a cheap knock-off ring tone. The tune is forever synonymous with The Exorcist, despite being recorded some time before the film began post production.  The story goes that …

With fellow Academy Award winner and former student Rick Baker acting as the Master of Ceremonies, Dick Smith‘s illustrious career will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science with a special event being held June 17 2009 in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. Dick …

Unveiled in Scranton’s Courthouse Square in March this year was a bronze bust of play write and actor Jason Miller – you know him as Father Karras in The Exorcist. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner for his play That Championship Season, which later became a motion picture Miller himself …

While Linda Blair had scared the pants off of most people in the 70’s after starring in The Exorcist, Leslie Nielsen was making them laugh in classics like Airplane! Who would have thought that over a decade later they’d come together to bring us one of the worst spoof movies …

World renowned actor Max von Sydow was just 42 years old when he began production on The Exorcist, bringing the character of Father Merrin to life. Famously aged by make-up artist Dick Smith to look many years older, Max delivered one of the finest performances of his stellar career. Today, …

Den of Geek have published an article discussing people who have played themselves or performed their exact profession in feature films. It was pleasant to see Reverend William O’Malley get a mention for his role as Father Karras’ friend Father Dyer in The Exorcist. They open their section on O’Malley …

DreadCentral reports that Eileen Dietz, the famous face of Captain Howdy from The Exorcist and the woman who played Linda Blair’s stunt double (in now-obvious scenes) throughout the film has been cast in director Rob Zombie’s latest horror project. Halloween 2, the sequel to Rob’s 2007 Halloween remake/reboot/re-imagining/ began shooting …

Kermode Uncut is Mark Kermode’s movie blog for the BBC, which is always packed full of insightful information and film commentary from the man himself. Kermode, of course, is the brains behind the greatest text on The Exorcist film ever written – The Exorcist (BFI Modern Classics) (I consider this …

William Friedkin recently sat down with UK’s Guardian ‘In The Director’s Chair’ segment to once again discuss the newly released French Connection on Blu-ray. Interviewer Jason Solomons brought up questions about The Exorcist in the second half of the interview — not so much about The Exorcist Blu-ray release, but …

Back in October 2008 it was revealed director William Friedkin was due to start work on The Exorcist Blu-ray release in December of that year. The source was the UK’s High Definition Review magazine, who had completed an interview with the director at the time. In December 08, in issue …

It will go down as one of the most famous Hollywood studio debacles in film history: Director Paul Schrader being fired from Exorcist: The Beginning after principal photography was complete, only to have the studio hire a new director (Renny Harlin) then proceed to fund a further 40 million dollars …

On Boxing Day, December 26, 1973, The Exorcist was first screened in American theaters. As the year turned and became 1974, the horror film would be seen across the world amassing an enormous following and becoming the highest grossing film at the time; undoubtedly one of the most recognizable and …