Late Night with the Devil

It's far too early to say but "Late Night with the Devil" might just be my favourite horror movie of 2024. It has a lot going for it. It's a faux documentary about a fictional late-night talk show host, Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian). Jack's show, Night Owls, is competing against Johnny Carson for ratings in the year, 1977. Jack's show isn't doing well, so to boost his audience score, he hosts a Halloween special and invites psychic Christou (Fayssal Bazzi), psychic debunker Carmichael Haig (Ian Bliss), and parapsychologist June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon) along with her devil possessed patient, Lilly (Ingrid Torelli). Let the fun begin! A lot of the enjoyment is merely the 70s clothing and the set of UBC TV's Night Owls; like a repurposed set of The Price is Right, the brown, yellow, and orange paint stripes flow Yellow Submarine style about the walls, wrapping around in the background. In the foreground is a hipster's wet dream - vintage retro second hand furniture. The movie itself is "Quiz Show" meets "The Exorcist" - the escalating late-night episode building slowly and dramatically - and not without lots of laughs along the way: STAY TUNED, WILL WE RIGHT BACK AFTER THIS COMMERCIAL BREAK. Catch the devil by tail, playing at night, in theatres now.