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I love when filmmakers embrace the horror genre with a serious theme and production aspects. This grounds the movie in a place and time outside the stereotypical settings of a million horror flicks. No haunted mansion, no forest, no countryside and not in the middle of nowhere. We’re going for the unexpected and somehow familiar feel of a TV show set. Now, before we go on, I’m just going to give it away and say this one is best served without looking at the menu. Go watch it and then come back.
Late Night with the Devil (2013) is written and directed by Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes. As host of the late night talk show “Night Owls”, Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) has courted success without ever achieving the top spot in ratings. After suffering the traumatic loss of his wife to cancer, he’s taken some time off but returned to find his ratings slipping even further. Now on the fateful Halloween night of 1977, Jack will have to pull the ultimate scary show to revive his career.
To accomplish this, he has brought in self-proclaimed psychic Christou (Fayssal Bazzi), antagonistic skeptic Carmichael Haig (Ian Bliss) and parapsychologist Dr. June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon). It’s June who brings in the wildcard of the night, an eerie girl named Lilly (InStrongly recommended for the true horror fan. This is a fresh take on the old subgenre of demonic possession that has no qualms as making you wait but give you a nice chilling reward for sticking around. Very much worth a watch, and probably even a second one when you drag your friends to see it.
That will do for now.
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