“Late Night With The Devil”

8.2

I didn’t have Bohemian Grove connected death cult on my bingo card for 2024, but here we are.

David Dastmalchian and Ingrid Torelli steal the show, but that’s not to take away from anyone in this one. Everyone plays their parts to perfection, as we’re transported back to the days of the original late night wars and their attempts to distract us from a world seemingly coming apart at the seams. Behind a thin veil is a grappling with the price of fame and the lengths one will go to to achieve it. Front and center is one of the better demonic possession found footage films on the silver screen in quite some time. What I was most taken by was the world building done in such a short time. I’m not typically a fan of an exposition dump monologue to start a film, but found this one perfectly teed up what was to come. They use the late night talk show structure to build momentum towards a finale that gives the V/H/S series a run for its money. As you know, I judge a horror movie by its finale, and this one swung for the fences and connected with a fast ball right down the middle to destroy a windshield in deep left field. There wasn’t a wasted frame in the entire runtime, leaving everyone in the theater in disbelief of where they went with this one.

So lace up your robe, sharpen your ancient dagger, and get ready for a wild ride!