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Late Night with the Devil<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IFC Films\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violent content, some gore, language including a sexual reference)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Glenn Richards and Roscoe James Irwin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Matthew Temple\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Josh Quong Tart, Georgina Haig, Steve Mouzakis, Gaby Seow, Michael Ironside (narrator).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I don\u2019t like found footage horror movies. I\u2019ve made this abundantly clear in my reviews of such headache-inducing titles as Cloverfield, Apollo 18, The Devil Inside, Devil\u2019s Due, As Above So Below, The Pyramid, The Gallows and Blair Witch. These films are fundamentally the same. They either deal with a group of young dummies going somewhere they shouldn\u2019t or somebody documenting some kind of supernatural event. The makers attempt to make them look as real as possible by way of shaky camerawork and naturalistic \u201cacting\u201d. But we all know it\u2019s total BS. I can\u2019t speak for everybody, but I\u2019ve been onto them since The Blair Witch Project (highly overrated!) back in \u201999.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I honestly thought we saw the last of these films with the last Paranormal Activity installment a few years back. Well, guess what? THEY\u2019RE BA-ACK! Not that they ever went away completely; they just haven\u2019t been taking up space at cinemas lately. That\u2019s a good thing. Also, I\u2019ve been dying to use the line from Poltergeist II.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Now I\u2019ve been hearing a lot of great things about Late Night with the Devil<\/strong> these past few weeks. I have to admit I liked the premise, scary happenings on a 70s-era late night TV show. I was psyched when I saw it was coming to my local multiplex. However, I developed a mild case of skepticism when I learned it was found footage. I briefly experienced flashbacks to the terrible FF titles that preceded it. Then I decided to set all that aside and take Late Night with the Devil<\/strong> on its own terms. Is it really fair to pre-judge it based on how I feel about the genre as a whole? No, it is not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0So strong was my desire to see Late Night with the Devil<\/strong> that I did something I don\u2019t usually do anymore. I went to the movies at night. I had no choice actually; the theater was only showing it at night, no daytime shows. Crossing the lobby after getting my ticket scanned, I silently prayed to the movie gods to let it be worth the extra effort. I am elated to report in the affirmative. This is one freaky, f***ed up fright flick!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Written and directed by Aussie filmmakers Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres), Late Night with the Devil<\/strong> is framed as a documentary about a lost episode of a late-night talk show called Night Owls. The brothers kick things off by giving us some background on the host Jack Delroy (Dastmalchian, Ant-Man), a former disc jockey from Chicago who somehow got this gig despite having no previous television experience. I\u2019m not going to tell you what else is revealed in the opening as it would constitute a major spoiler.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The episode in question aired on Halloween night in 1977. It started out like any show with Jack telling a few scripted jokes before bringing out his guests for the evening. The first is a psychic named Christo (Bazzi, The Merger) who does a few cold readings on audience members. It\u2019s clear from the get-go the guy\u2019s a charlatan. Next up is Carmichael the Conjurer (Bliss, The Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions), a former magician who now makes his living debunking magic and other supernatural phenomena. He\u2019s an arrogant ass with a scientific explanation for everything. After him, we get Dr. June Ross-Mitchell (Gordon, Undertow), a parapsychologist\/author hawking her new book. With her is Lilly (Torelli, Five Bedrooms), the lone survivor of a mass suicide by a Satanic cult. The polite 13YO claims to be possessed by an evil entity she calls \u201cMr. Wriggles\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m going to leave it at that. Your enjoyment of Late Night with the Devil<\/strong> depends on how little you know about it going in. What I will tell you is that the show goes from weird to weirder to utterly INSANE. This is not hyperbole either. It makes any given episode of Jerry Springer look tame by comparison.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Until recently, it\u2019s been a bleak year for horror. It started getting a little brighter with last week\u2019s Immaculate. The lights are now at 75% with Late Night with the Devil<\/strong>. First and most importantly, it\u2019s legit scary and suspenseful. It doesn\u2019t happen often, but this one got me, BIG TIME! It had me on the edge of my seat waiting for the brothers Cairns to lower the boom. When they finally do, it\u2019s positively visceral. In the interim, they really play with your mind. Also, they mostly use practical effects (save for three digital images, you\u2019ll know \u2018em when you see \u2018em) which is in perfect keeping with its setting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The cinematography isn\u2019t at all what I expected from a FF movie. Instead of all that shaky nonsense that does nothing except induce nausea, it looks just like a late-night show from the 70s from the aesthetic to what goes on when the cameras go off. The guys really lean into it and the demonic goings-on as the show progresses. The only thing missing is the cheesy commercials that typically came on after hours. Instead, we see the behind-the-scenes hustle and bustle during breaks, rendered in black and white to set it apart from the program.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Dastmalchian is very good as Jack, a cut-rate Johnny Carson desperately trying to keep his ratings up. He\u2019s the perfect blend of charm and smarm. It\u2019s obviously a losing battle as there\u2019s no competing with the \u201cKing of Late Night\u201d. Rhys Auteri is perfect in every way as Jack\u2019s sidekick Gus. On air, he\u2019s every bit the yes man as Ed McMahon. Off, he\u2019s not afraid to express his misgivings about the direction of that night\u2019s show. Josh Quong Tart (All Saints), looking like the brother of Sean Penn\u2019s character from Carlito\u2019s Way, is a hoot as the show\u2019s sleazy producer Leo. He\u2019s more concerned with pleasing the sponsor than the physical and mental well-being of the staff, guests and audience. Torelli is creepy-cute as Lilly, not the innocent kid she pretends to be. There\u2019s something sinister behind that smile.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0If you\u2019re a horror fans, heed this advice. RUN, don\u2019t walk, to the closest theater showing Late Night with the Devil<\/strong>. See it at night as late as possible. You will NOT regret it.<\/p>\r\n Late Night with the Devil (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IFC Films\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violent content, some gore, language including a sexual reference)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Glenn Richards and Roscoe James Irwin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Matthew Temple\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-scary-gory-wild-i-love-it"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Late-Night-with-the-Devil-P.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Late-Night-with-the-Devil-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C938&ssl=1\")
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