IMDb plot summary: A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Directed by Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes. Starring David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, and Ian Bliss.
Late Night with the Devil is a found footage horror movie about a late night talk show in the 1970s and the notorious Halloween show they did one year in an effort to drum up ratings. This movie started out *great*. It embeds us in the time frame and the genre and is extremely fun for the first half. It gets a little bit unmoored in the second half... and then the final scenes I did not care for at ALL. There's just so much happening there that abandons the original conceit that it is told from the point of view of from seeing the broadcast. So much of what's going on in the final third is clearly inside people's heads, and that, A) abandons the premise I liked so much at the beginning, and B) doesn't actually make that much sense. I can't figure out what I'm supposed to assume actually *happened*. And not in a way that's fun and ambiguous, but in a way that was irritating. So it's a great concept. It's very well put together, very well presented, and the atmosphere is impeccable. But it falls apart in the final third.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Late Night with the Devil < Sarah, Plain and Tall
Late Night with the Devil < Cars
Late Night with the Devil > Mission to Mars.
Late Night with the Devil > The Monkey King
Late Night with the Devil < Adam's Rib
Late Night with the Devil > The Italian Job (2003)
Late Night with the Devil > Speak
Late Night with the Devil > Dixiana
Late Night with the Devil > ParaNorman
Late Night with the Devil > Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Late Night with the Devil > The Number 23
Late Night with the Devil > The Goonies
Final spot: #3054, or 22%.
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