Creepy Kid: Big Daddy meets The Exorcist, apparently…

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 the age of The Exorcist truly starts to...

Articles section returns to The Exorcist Fansite

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 (coming early April) I plan...

You could say “I was there” …just over 30 years later.

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...

Happy Birthday THE EXORCIST film – 33 years old today

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 true testament to the longevity of this...

William Peter Blatty’s son PETER passed away 7 November 2006

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 has now been...

A video tribute to Damien Karras

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...

Fangoria #197

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...

Image gallery update

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...

The ‘complete’ anthology is coming to DVD

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...

RARE VIDEO FOOTAGE: Mercedes McCambridge demonstrates the voice of Pazuzu

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 Anniversary DVD and VHS...

Eileen appearing at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors convention

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,...

Perform your own exorcism at home!*

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...

Fergie is an Exorcist fan?

I remember reading this back in March.  Made me think it might be interesting to start a list of celebrities who are also Exorcist fans.  Seems Black Eyed Peas’ sexy front-chik Fergie was a big fan of the film as a child.  So much so, her mother feared she would become a devil worshiper and recorded...

Warner Brothers will distribute films online

Some interesting news for Exorcist fans, Time Warner’s Warner Brothers distribution studio is going to be the first to make their films legally available for download using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network. The deal is already close to launch in Germany, with the States, UK and Australia not far...

Your chance to meet Eileen Dietz

I have just had some cool news about Eileen Dietz arrive in my inbox. Eileen, of course, played Linda Blair‘s double in the original Exorcist, and has gathered quite a following in recent years. She is also the face of Captain Howdy we have all come to know and love. The news is this: The...