CaptainHowdy.com The #1 Exorcist Fansite Since 1999
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Thank, columbian and CH! That video rocks, rocks, rocks! I appreciate you both sharing it!
Cap, this is definitely worth asking the creator about for the website’s Video Gallery! Remarkable stuff!
Oh, and there’s a “Making Of” on youtube that shows how this guy did this … he did not use CGI gremlins! Very talented!
Very cool again, colombian! I’m sure there are lots of way to download these goodies about Dick Smith, but I’m sticking to my old faithfule RealPlayer to stockpile them and watch them at one time. THANKS!
Muddy, you probably have the real thing since it came from a reputable dealer like “Mrs. Miniver.” I’ve seen a lot of posters and they are the real deal. Hang on tight to it and keep it away from direct sunlight. Great addition to your home, I’m sure. 🙂
dsea, take a look at my “PazGan” somewhere on this site … there are those of us who just love to use Photoshop for practice if anything. 😉
Thank, Sofia … no spoiler for me on that part because it’s just a curiosity I had of late. 😉 However, I still can see Willie at a Beatles concert
Muddy, I agree about Friedkin’s voice and mannerisms that he displays as the “almighty authority” on everything talking point. He’s somewhat demeaning to others if you listen carefully to his evaluations and critiques. Friedkin needs to say behind the camera! 😉
I would love to see and hear Burstyn (she has a wonderfully talented voice to go along with her acting skills). Blair could add more “adventures in torturing” in having to act out the devil’s deeds and weathering the makeup cruelty. von Sydow would be too perfect to hear from. I think their dialogue would be fascinating WITHOUT Friedkin butting in.
dsea, the window cards were usually posted throughout the theaters in multiplexes. It was another way to entice more moviegoers to see the film. Plus, they did actually use them in the windows and on doors on the outside of theaters. Ah, the good old days. 🙂
Muddy, I would like to hear both Blatty and Friedkin commenting on various scenes together, too. The commentary on the 25th by Friedkin was just revolting … he only (and many times very wrongly) rehashed the scenes like he was seeing them for the first time ever. I didn’t learn anything new from Friedkin and I could have commented better and gave more background information than he did. So, let’s vote for a Blatty/Friedkin duo or just leave Friedkin out altogether.
No way RB, you’re on target as far I’m concerned. In face, you I and have agreed on this point a lot. I think in an earlier post I mentioned seeing 18-20 y-o’s coming out the theater after seeing TVNS and making nasty comments about The Exorcist: TVYNS. Granted, I am assuming these folks were seeing The Exorcist for the first time whether it be the original or the TVYNS.
On the original WB website, I was a beta blogger for them and was excited about seeing updated version of The Exorcist that included the infamous Spider Walk. And, then, I saw what someone or some folks at WB did to the original with all the CGI garbage; e.g., overlaying Captain Howdy’s face on Regan’s face during the hypnosis scene; putting CH’s face on the vent over the stove; imposing yet another image of Pazuzu’s image on Regan’s bedroom wall). All, totally unnecessary! I entitled my blog entry as, “Disfiguring the Mona Lisa of Horror Films.” I was, needless to say, banned from the site using my blog name. Granted I could have went back on as another user, but I thought, “Why?” They’re making money and who am I to really judge that harshly. But, I was so unhappy that WB felt CGI was needed to make this great film “tech savvy” that it was a sorry excuse for an kind of updating. Put the 12 missing minutes back in and leave it at that.
So, yes! You’re third documentary title covers just everything that I would like to see it titled as well! 😉 Great points all around!
This is actually a theater window card … I have one somewhere in my treasures. They’re 8.5″x11″ and there was a series of about 12 that WB distributed to theaters when The Exorcist was released.
