The staticky title card is a portal to the past.

… Since 1987, we have become one of Cablevision’s most talked about programs.

As soon as I see those fuzzy white letters on the black screen, I’m right back in my best friend Jeff’s living room. It’s the mid-1990s and two teenagers are sitting on recliners at night, staring at a box television set like Carol Anne in Poltergeist.

We’re a weekly program dedicated to horror movies.

… Let us show you what we’re talking about.

The intro is followed by a three-minute montage—scored by RuPaul’s “Snapshot”—of grainy clips from films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, The Shining, Scanners, and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The gory barrage leads to a calmer place: a drab, white-walled hotel room. It’s here that we meet our host, a skinny man in an unbuttoned shirt with middle-parted red hair and a small hoop earring. His name is Bryan Fortin. And this is Zones of Evil.

Normally, the public-access series is filmed on a makeshift set in Fortin’s house. But this is a very special episode, shot on location at a horror convention. Today’s guest is none other than The Exorcist star Linda Blair, who cheerfully answers her spellbound interviewer’s Boston-accented questions.

[Read Alan Siegel's profile of Zones of Evil's Bryan Fortin.]