The Exorcist's first showing in town was at 1:30 in the afternoon. My 2nd year design prof came to our studios and told us we had the afternoon off since we had finished our projects, he would crit them in 2 days. A couple of us were sitting there in my studio wondering what to do while I was scanning the paper. All of a sudden I saw it......"The Exorcist starts in 45 minutes"! My studio partner had received a small brick of Afghani hash from his supplier so we warmed some up and filled a tobacco pipe full. After finishing that off between 3 of us, we rushed the couple of miles to the theater and ended up sitting on the 3rd row. Near the beginning there is a montage of clips where they show some dogs fighting......... that was where I remember using the back of my seat last........... that movie screwed me up for a long time, I would see that little shit in dark windows, hear her voice......... I could never look at Linda Blair again without seeing those eyes. 36 years later and I will not watch it even though there are movies that have come out that are much more gory and scary.
Behind us in the theater was another couple of friends of mine that popped some purple micro dot for the movie........ they never were the same and were killed in a plane crash a couple years later when one of them took off out of Houston at night, after going to see the Allman Brothers, without checking weather on his way back to Baton Rouge and flew head on into a thunderhead that literally ripped the wings off of their rented Piper Cherokee. Their bodies went through the roof of the fuselage as the plane was tearing apart.
Behind us in the theater was another couple of friends of mine that popped some purple micro dot for the movie........ they never were the same and were killed in a plane crash a couple years later when one of them took off out of Houston at night, after going to see the Allman Brothers, without checking weather on his way back to Baton Rouge and flew head on into a thunderhead that literally ripped the wings off of their rented Piper Cherokee. Their bodies went through the roof of the fuselage as the plane was tearing apart.
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