Late Night with the Devil

cool

source: Late Night with the Devil

I really enjoyed this. Sort of found footage, sort of faux documentary, I really loved how this movie was presented. David Dastmalchian is really very good. And the supporting cast are enjoyable, particularly Ingrid Torelli. This movie is pretty creepy, and there are tones of exorcist and of VHS 85. There's a kind of Faustian deal at the stories core that I really liked and I found myself smiling quite a lot during the third act. This movie may not be for everybody. It's obviously not big budget and the effects may not land with everyone but I thought it was a whole lot of creepy, campy fun.

This film is proof you don't need a ton of money to make a good movie. You just need the right talent and some thought. Late Night with the Devil starts out with a documentary style very similar to Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run. It soon morphs, however into a Halloween episode of a late night talk show, purporting to re-air a live episode including scenes never show on TV. This part is a bit weird because the scenes shown during the commercial would have never been filmed, so how did they have them? No matter, the movie is so compelling, you'll probably disregard this minor point. The show's first guest is a psychic, then a skeptic, then a girl who is supposed to be possessed by a demon. It unfolds really well and I really loved the movie. Until the ending. For me, the ending took two stars away from the review. It was just too abrupt and ethereal. Still worth a watch, however.