Late Night with the Devil
I was kind of hoping this movie would be
diabolically clever - and as far as this type of movie goes, it's pretty good, actually.
The "found footage" genre find new life with this clever film from Cameron and Colin Cairnes, in which a "master tape" is discovered from a fateful late-night show broadcast live on Halloween in 1977.
David Dastmalchian plays the late show host of
Night Owls with Jack Delroy, which in this fictional universe finds itself embroiled in a heated ratings race at a time when Johnny Carson still reigned supreme.
To reveal more about plot details would be... a wicked thing to do, so I won't.
But the film works as more than just a horror film, having some clever ideas on things like the price of fame, the overall exploitative nature of reality-based television, and the place where the US was in the late 70s (the Cairnes brothers are Australian, and this movie, although set in the US, was filmed Down Under).
Try to catch it in cinemas if you can, before it goes to Shudder sometime next month - the movie can really come alive with the right audience!