After several unfortunate postponements, Roy and I seem to have finally wriggled out from beneath the curse of “The Exorcist” (1973). Now we can finally put Halloween – and Regan – to bed.

One of the unfortunate effects of talking about a film weeks after the fact is that I tend to forget some of the fascinating details that leap out at me while viewing. Even if I jot them down, I don’t always recall the precise trajectory of my thoughts. The difficulty is compounded as, even under the best of circumstances, I can be frustratingly wayward when attempting to express myself in speech. So I guess it’s a good thing I’ve worked for 37 years in broadcast media!

Hopefully we left you with some food for thought, or at any rate, kept you entertained, even as we got sidetracked discussing the relative merits of directors’ cuts and at what length a film should necessitate the inclusion of an intermission. There were plenty of loose ends as we got turned around in the labyrinth. But the journey is always the destination on Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. If you missed our 50th anniversary discussion of this horror high-water mark, the entire lollaPazuzu is archived here: