Late Night time With The Satan Will Restore Your Religion In Discovered Footage Horror Films [SXSW]

Like these above-mentioned movies, “Late Night time With the Satan” is not a “teenagers run by way of the forest yelling whereas somebody shakes timber” film. It presents itself as an artifact, an “precise” misplaced and rediscovered piece of ephemera. On this case, it is an episode of a 1977 speak present hosted by Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian), a struggling comic who can by no means fairly match Johnny Carson and has resorted to outlandish gimmicks to spice up his flagging scores. 

For the primary half of the film, the Cairnes correctly takes their time: we endure a reasonably unspectacular speak present (behind-the-scenes footage provides background and extra particulars through the “business breaks”) and watch as Delroy tries to squeeze watchable TV out of a collection of particular company on his annual Halloween particular. And would not you consider that a kind of company is a physician treating a younger woman who is seemingly possessed by a demon?

Sure, issues go fallacious, and sure, “Late Night time With the Satan” is finally a gooey and goopey good time, albeit one with simply sufficient uncooked terror to depart you rattled. And it definitely helps that Dastmalchian, an more and more empathetic and interesting actor, is totally convincing as Delroy, whose makes an attempt to maintain his present rolling by way of the more and more chaotic occasions surrounding him offers the movie its most entertaining (and finally unnerving) spark. Dastmalchian really appears like he belongs on a ’70s speak present, nailing the mannerisms and supply of the interval. He is backed up by stellar manufacturing and costume design, which recreate the interval with sufficient mundane accuracy that it fools the mind simply typically sufficient. Even when the entire thing appears a wee bit too digital, the movie finally feels sufficient like an artifact to get beneath the pores and skin and really feel such as you’re watching one thing you should not be watching.