Late Night With the Devil

Going to tonight's 9:15pm showing.

I love David Dastmalchian so it should be fun.

I enjoyed it...

The commitment to the 1977 aesthetic was great including the graphics and music.

I'm going to see it tomorrow night. I love horror movies.

Stupid "controversy" over the use of AI.

The AI consists of three still images used as commercial break bumpers during the broadcast.

I saw it last night and loved it. Original and freaky.

Made a spur of the moment decision to see this Sunday night. There were more people there than I'd expected. Apparently word-of-mouth has done the film well, as it marked the most profitable opening weekend in history for IFC Films.

I really loved the movie—it's a unique, wacky ride, and the period details were nicely executed. The ending went a bit off the rails, but still all good fun. One of the more entertaining experiences I've had in the theater for a long time. I may go see it for a second time.

I found David Dastmalchian weirdly sexy in this film

This reminds of “Repossessed”, a satire of “The Exorcist” starring Linda Blair and Leslie Neilson - a live exorcism on tv.

On Shudder as of tomorrow 4/19.

Thanks r9, I've been meaning to see this, but am too lazy.

a nasty and delicious, unapologetic pastiche with a flair for menace. I had a blast.

My goodness this was so much fun. I love the commitment to being fully immersed in the show. Reddit says....

SPOILER SPOILER That you can see the ghost of his wife in a lot of shots, in reflections. Guess it was more apparent on the big screen.

I'll ave to watch it again.

I’m gonna watch tomorrow.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. David D. was eye candy.

I see it's free on AMC. I'd watch now, but it's probably better if I watch it during daytime.🐓

Thanks, OP.

That was my thought, R15

R14 I thought so too. I saw it in the theater and getting to see his ass and thighs in those slacks at such a high resolution was distracting.

Has echoes of that awful movie that ended Jodie Foster's directing career.. How interesting can "taking over a studio" be?

Not a bad film. What was the ending about?

R12, the film made that explicitly clear.

[quote] [R12], the film made that explicitly clear.

I am laughing—imaging R20 saying that in the voice of Bette Davis.

I did a week free trial of Shudder so I could watch! I just started it 5 minutes ago!

Very good. Did they clarify the tall trees meeting part or is it meant to be a mystery where they first met.

R20, I only saw her once, before she put her hand on his shoulder.

[quote]Very good. Did they clarify the tall trees meeting part or is it meant to be a mystery where they first met.

The "tall trees" meeting was referring to the Bohemian Grove type secret society that Delroy belonged to. His involvement was mentioned in the opening segment of the movie. They conjured the demon to gain riches but it demanded a sacrifice -- Jack's wife Minnie.

Some of the acting was flat out terrible. The skeptic and the producer were way too hammy.

It was meh.

For what it was, I thought it was great. The budget was less than two million. Imagine if David Fincher did this film with $100M.

[quote]The budget was less than two million

The fact that budget was so small and yet there were still 90 seconds worth of production company logos at the start pretty much sums up how fucked the film business is

This movie blew chunks. I hate how dumbed down society has become that crap like this is considered masterful.

Who exactly was manning the b/w camera between commercial breaks? How did they get up right into everybody’s face while they were having private conversations and nobody seemed to mind?

Maybe everything is happening in Jack's mind right before he stabs Lily.

Some of the acting was terrible. The psychic, the skeptic..,

r31 I thought that choice was really odd - just have them stay on set and say the TV cameras continued to record during the breaks.

There's a British TV show called Inside No. 9, which is written by two of the League of Gentlemen, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, and I would've loved to see them do this story. They've done period TV stuff before and really nailed it, and I think they could've come up with a more satisfying ending.

The ending left me wanting. It started off promisingly. They needed to explore/clarify his involvement in the dark arts.

The acting was meh.

I know it's an arthouse film but it could have been better.

This movie was so bad, I'm surprised A24 didn't release it.

I thought that choice was really odd - just have them stay on set and say the TV cameras continued to record during the breaks.

Plus the fact that this was supposed to be a "found footage" movie. They even say at the beginning that they found the broadcast of this buried somewhere after 40 years. If that's so, then forget about the stuff during the commercial breaks (which is rule breaking enough), how on earth would we have seen the host's whole little breakdown and montage of explanation since it's only happening in his head.

Massive failure of a movie.

During one of those backstage conversations with his producer, you could see his dead wife in the reflection of the mirror as they walk away.

I loved it, and the girl who played Lilly was fantastic.

Terrible film that promised what it clearly could not deliver and then didn't deliver it. The male lead was fine as someone harried and vulnerable, but he lacked the charisma needed to convince as a late night host and his supposedly witty banter was run-of-the-mill put-downs. The girl playing the possessed character was very good, however - her weird mannerisms were completely believable as the surviving victim of a suicidal cult.

The ending made no sense, and neither did our ability to skip from "found footage" to the backstage drama and the host's final vision.

Not sure how to solve the problem save for not inventing it in the first place (no reason to pass this off as found footage).

3/10

I thought it was a lot of fun merely for the novelty aspect. I found it very entertaining. I saw it and "Immaculate" in the theater during the same weekend. Originally I thought "Late Night with the Devil" was the better film, but I rewatched both and I now have a higher opinion of "Immaculate" than I did upon first viewing. Still thought both were great though.

The host sort of reminded me of Jay Leno.