Whether it’s the novel or the film, if Captain Howdy was Pazuzu, how did Regan not run for the hills if she was the only one who could see & hear him & I guess see what he really looked like?
In the novel or the book it doesn’t specify what she actually saw him to be but I’m guessing “as is”. I’d take off screaming, now that it would’ve done her any good but anybody else think about this? Or do you assume he had to be been under some guise?
I don't remember seeing Captain Howdy physically in the movie.
Didn't Regan just converse with Captain Howdy through a Ouija board?
We’ll not so much in the movie but in the novel & even if you mean both, what I meant to ask is that if Regan was the only one who could see him, even though he’s shown very briefly in the film where we see him. I’m asking was she the only one who could see the entity that was Captain Howdy? Even if you don’t see him, do you think “she” saw him? The book/film didn’t make it clear if she could see something of him when they conversed with each other. Yes I’m aware of the Quija Board naturally but it’s not what I’m asking about.
As jcnyclv below me, gave his/her opinion that Regan probably only heard him/it which is cool. It’s plausible, I was just curious, after all Regan does say when things go bad that Howdy is chasing her & kicking her. So I was wondering what it was that she “saw” IF anything. If you’re running from something that’s chasing you AND kicking you I imagine you must see something. & if she did, what did he appear to her as? For instance just as “IT” appears as a clown. Again, never stated specifically in either book or film but it’s something that you can speculate on.
He had the power I guess to appear as anything he/it wanted to her if you imagine he did show something of himself to her.
What I was saying that if he appeared as he was (in that brief flash scene you see of Pazuzu) than Regan or anybody else would’ve taken off screaming at such a sight. Never clarified but fun to think about.
I'm not sure Regan actually saw him, I'm pretty sure she just heard him. She was a lonely child and Captain Howdy came off as a benevolent presence to gain her trust. She enjoyed talking with him. He didn't show his true self to her until it was too late and he took her over.
shareIt might have appeared to her as one of those weird drawings/sculptures she created. Obviously the drawings are just her crude child's ability to represent what she saw but why are we shown her strange drawings in the same scene she's talking to captain howdy through the Ouija board? It is similar to other stories of hauntings where children see demons as animals, Amityville had the child's imaginary friend appearing as a giant pig.
shareYES! I was just about to mention that but I didn’t want to research it. The daughter, the little girl called it “Amy” I think & I think she did see it but who knows as what. Just before the mother went to the window it showed itself. It was towards the end of the movie that we see the pig in those iconic windows.
shareAs the name is "Captain Howdy" I assumed when I first watched it, that he came to her, as something a child would enjoy. I can't remember the part about him chasing and kicking her and I only watched it again the other day, but out of context, could he have been invisible (ie Paranormal Activity).
However, also, if you take it as canon (I do, because it was so good and I have a feeling I won't enjoy the new sequel movie) the show that had two seasons, shows what he looked like in Regan's mind. He was played by Robert Emmet Lunney (had to look his name up lol) if you haven't watched it. But that's how I believe, after seeing the show, she saw him as a child. Makes sense that that is how she would also see him as an adult.
In the movie he was played by a woman! A African American woman at that. I’ve seen a still picture of her with the makeup or putting it on. That would’ve gave me nightmares for the rest of my life being made up to appear as that.
Now as I understand it, I think this new “Excorist” movie is going to have a few different films coming out in the next few years & I think Pazuzu figures heavily in one of them because I’ve seen the pictures of him in it, so at least in one of them you’ll see him a lot.
Eileen Dietz was the face of Pazuzu/Captain Howdy, but she is white, not black, so you may be thinking of the wrong movie or actress. Pazuzu is still assumed to be male (if demons can be either sex) in the movie/book, the actor underneath the makeup doesn't define them (like the bride in black in the first Insidious was played by a male...before they decided to do the male to female twist in the second).
The new Exorcist films have no idea where they are going as I've read, as according to backlash of how bad the new one is, they are changing everything they planned (according to reports anyway). I haven't seen it, but the trailers look so bad, but I'll have to watch it and judge myself one day lol
Maybe he presented himself to her in a more relaxing manner??
shareGoing by the name "Captain Howdy," I'm pretty sure Pazuzu didn't just waltz up to her with horns and fangs blaring or anything like that.
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