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UK Exorcist fans keen to meet and greet Linda Blair and perhaps have a photo taken or something signed best get to Birmingham on March 28 & 29 where she will be appearing at the Memorabilia Show. Tickets are on sale now. Further details at their official website.

Sincerest apologies for the resent downtime experienced at The Exorcist Fansite. To those who sent me messages of support in case it were another hack attempt, thank you and no, it was nothing of the sort. Just some technical difficulties from my web host. Periodic downtime will come and go …

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 …

Okay so maybe some of you have seen this video before, but still, this is a nice video to add to the collection. Where can you see the whole collection? In the Video Gallery, opening in one week along with many other sections on an all-new captainhowdy.com. More on that …

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 …

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 Connection, for which he won an Oscar. …

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 …