Released with much fanfare, "Late Night with the Devil" came out in earlier this year, 2024, and proved that David Dastmalchian,(as seen in "The Belko Experiment"), has the ability and presence to take a leading role and run with it; he's engaging and fun to watch trying to keep the show going as it slowly grows more chaotic. With a solid supporting cast, including Michael Ironside as the Narrator, "Late Night with the Devil" is a must-see movie for Halloween!
Late night talk show host Jack Delory is burning out on trying to take the light night crown from Johnny Carson. Throughout the 1970's, Night Owls with Jack Delory comes close but never overtakes the master of light night tv. In a documentary form of exposition, the viewers learn that Jack and his wife had been making regular visits to The Grove, an esoteric cultlike camp for the elite and rich. Jack's wife is diagnosed with cancer, and her appearances on Night Owls brings in ratings, but after her death, Jack is too heartbroken and leaves production for a while. When Jack returns, the show has barely any ratings at this point, but he has a plan. During his sixth, and possible final season, Jack stakes everything on his 1977 Halloween night special, hoping that this will be enough to save the show and finally fulfill his dream of being number one.
Ensuring his show is perfect for Halloween, Jack has prepared a full-on Occult Themed show which includes a psychic, and supernatural denier, and a girl who had survived a death cult that worshipped the demon Abraxas. It’s a full hour of pure entertainment, or so he and his producer believe. What could possibly go wrong?
The show begins with a standard opening monologue from Jack before he introduces the medium Christou, who performs some simple speaking with the dead tricks. Then Carmichael Haig is brought in, offering a hefty check to any who can prove that magic and the supernatural are real. Haig then begins to dissect how Christou act is fake. Christou then becomes unusually sick and is rushed to the hospital where he is pronounced dead. Not letting that, or weird connections to wife deceased wife, will stop Jack from the big event, the cult survivor Lily and Dr. June Ross-Mitchell. Using Lily as a conduit, will they be able to contact Mr. Wiggles, the demon that supposedly is possessing young Lily? What harm could come from that?
"Late Night with the Devil" has a narrative that is peppered with little hints and clues throughout, making a second or third viewing just as enjoyable as the first. Everyone has something to gain from someone else, and no one is really much of a saint in this film. In the end, who, if any, do we really feel sorry for?
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