Late Night With The Devil

Year:	2023
Country:	International
Language:	English
Genre:	Comedy, Horror
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	3 Have Seen


Director	Cameron Cairnes
	Colin Cairnes
Selected Cast	David Dastmalchian as Jack Delroy
	Laura Gordon as June Ross-Mitchell
	Ian Bliss as Carmichael Haig

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Australia / United Arab Emirates production

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Magic Marmalade 3rd Jan 2025		Rated 8/10 This is really rather brilliant. It's a short movie, running at only an hour and a half... (A full two minutes of which, are occupied at the start by the seemingly endless production company idents... seriously, I think there's at least eight!) ...And it's a pastiche / homage to both the kind of late night seventies talk shows that felt a bit ropey, and a bit dodgy and dangerous, as well as the several attempts at live TV broadcasting of "spooky" goings on at Halloween over the years, where they pretend that it's all actually happening, but much to the consternation of those making the show, it actually is. So it's a desperate gambit of a show gone wrong, framed as a kind of "found footage" horror, where we are supposedly witnessing the original master-tape of the original live broadcast... ...Except I think this has actually exceeded the now traditional, and perhaps worn trope of the found footage thing, and is perhaps better thought of as a kind of stage play. In fact, my abiding thoughts at the end were exactly that: "This would make truly brilliant stage show!" - Broadway or West End adaptation anyone?!? So fading talk show host invites a supposedly intermittently possessed girl on as a guest, with her rescuer / carer, in order to try and coax the devil out for the benefit of live TV (and therefore, good ratings), along with a now professional sceptic / debunker, and a psychic medium, all infront of a live television audience... what could go wrong? :) It feels very stagey throughout the first half, but I think, done with a wry smile, albeit, played brilliantly deadpan... and I do think it might have been more effective without the "special" effects, later on, which feel a bit too "Ghostbusters" CGI, and does kill the immersion a little, but the finale really redeems it, with the "In The Mouth Of Madness" surreal, horrific mind bending sequence, which takes it up to another level of weird. All cast are excellent, primarily David Dastmalchian, of course, who, finally given a chance at a lead role, knocks t clean out of the park, as we always knew he could, and it's nice to see Ian Bliss (Bane in: Matrix Reloaded) again - need to see more of this dude! - as the debunker, and especially praise goes to Ingrid Torelli as a truly creepy kid! A great, short, late night horror watch, and as I said, an absolute potential gold mine for a possible stage play adaptation! (Has anyone ever done a genuine horror movie on the stage before) ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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