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The Exorcist III

October 10, 2025·1 hr 18 min·10 clips

They start with a warning. John and Lloyd make it clear that the show will spoil things and swear hard, which sets the tone for a horror conversation that never bothers pretending to be polite. October is doing the work here. All Horror October and the film's 35th anniversary give them a clean reason to revisit The Exorcist 3, while the star's death 26 years earlier hangs over the discussion. Mike Field drops in. The panel brings him in as a filmmaker and folds him into the movie discussion right away. The murders get attention. They work through the DC killings, the connection the film draws to another case, the Gemini Killer idea, and the way the dialogue keeps mixing Richmond and San Francisco as the room tries to pin down the reference. The confessional scene lands hard. A priest in the booth, a voice that sounds wrong, and the slow creep of the killer's language give the episode its best stretch of straight horror talk. Father Dyer matters too. Kinderman's relationship with him becomes part of the run of conversation, and the hospital material gives the panel a quieter, stranger lane before they veer back into jokes. There is some real-world nastiness. They bring up the report that Jeffrey Dahmer showed victims the movie and reportedly used yellow contacts like the ones tied to the film's eerie eye image, which only makes the whole thing feel more contaminated. The talk stays loose. That looseness means the room keeps interrupting itself with corrections, side memories, and the kind of blunt riffing that turns a prepared rundown into something messier and more human. It never gets tidy. Listeners who want horror nerds swapping real recall, ugly jokes, and enough context to make the movie feel newly charged will be right at home.

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A blunt, spoiler-heavy horror chat that digs into The Exorcist 3's creeps and trivia.

The Pint keeps All Horror October rolling with The Exorcist 3, and John, Lloyd, and guest Mike Field spend the hour on the film's 35th anniversary, its murders, the Gemini Killer, Father Dyer, Kinderman, and the confessional-booth scene that hits hardest.

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