“That pornographic horror film I once did”

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...

Video: Mark Kermode talks the original cut of Legion and different edits of the spiderwalk scene

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...

Video Interview: William Friedkin has never seen an Exorcist sequel (or prequel)?

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...

Scans of William Friedkin’s interview with High Definition Review magazine: THE BLU CONNECTION

Earlier this week I posted that William Friedkin revealed in an interview with High Definition Magazine that the upcoming Blu-ray special edition release of The Exorcist will use ‘The Version You’ve Never Seen’ transfer. The interview is actually about Friedkin’s film The French...

First Exorcist Blu-ray special feature revealed

Picture this: Director of The Exorcist William Friedkin casually strolls through the primary locations of Georgetown, discussing elements of the classic horror film with its author and creator William Peter Blatty. Sounds pretty neat, doesn’t it! The tour is being shot in February 2009 specifically to...

William Friedkin to begin work on The Exorcist’s Blu-ray release in December

UK’s DVD & Blu-ray Review magazine got the scoop from Exorcist director William Friedkin that he is scheduled to begin working on a special edition Blu-ray release of The Exorcist on 2 December this year. Unfortunately, the disc will not be released until ‘sometime’ in Fall (September...