Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is Tuesday, October the seventh,
Speaker 1: and we continue on our horror hit list and on
Speaker 1: number twenty five this movie. You don't have to take
Speaker 1: our word from it at all, because this horror movie
Speaker 1: has a ninety seven percent Rotten Tomato score. And with that,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Going through
Speaker 1: our horror hit list, we hit number twenty five. Robes
Speaker 1: this might be low for us, because this movie moved
Speaker 1: up our list of favorites really really quickly.
Speaker 2: Yes, because it was an interesting premise and it wasn't
Speaker 2: one that I would typically assume a horror movie would
Speaker 2: be set in a late night talk show, So it
Speaker 2: wasn't something that I necessarily immediately said, Babe, we've got
Speaker 2: to watch this late night with the Devil.
Speaker 1: But it takes a minute to even realize what you're watching,
Speaker 1: and it is. The themes are familiar to horror movies,
Speaker 1: but they take a totally different span.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a lot of fun. The genre was
Speaker 2: so unique. It was such a well written, well acted movie.
Speaker 2: It was all taking place truly. There were some found
Speaker 2: footage elements to it, but basically, essentially the whole thing
Speaker 2: takes place on stage. There's one setting throughout the whole thing,
Speaker 2: so that's really unique and pretty cool. This was released
Speaker 2: March twenty second, twenty twenty four, rated R. It's just
Speaker 2: an hour and thirty three minutes sweet spot.
Speaker 1: We didn't even say what it is, say.
Speaker 3: T I did say, but I sneaked it in.
Speaker 2: I didn't make a big drum roll number twenty five
Speaker 2: on our list Late Night with the Devil, so it's
Speaker 2: listed as horror, mystery thriller.
Speaker 3: It certainly is all of the above.
Speaker 1: The horror doesn't come into terribly to the end. Let's
Speaker 1: get you through what we talking about here. This movie's
Speaker 1: been out only a little over a year. Came out
Speaker 1: last year March twenty second. The synopsis is this. Johnny
Speaker 1: Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated talk show, Night
Speaker 1: Owls that has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs
Speaker 1: around the country. However, ratings for the show have plummeted
Speaker 1: since the tragic death of Jack's beloved wife. Desperate to
Speaker 1: turn his fortunes around, on October thirty first, nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 1: Jack planned a Halloween special like no other. Unaware he
Speaker 1: was about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.
Speaker 1: Even that, you know what, that's kind of how the
Speaker 1: movie goes.
Speaker 2: You're intrigued, yeah the whole time, like, hmmm, how's this
Speaker 2: gonna go? Yes? So this actually is this doing well
Speaker 2: at the box office? Ten million dollars domestically, five million internationally,
Speaker 2: so fifteen million dollars total. I can't imagine the budget
Speaker 2: on the film was that big. Again, it all takes
Speaker 2: place on stage in one location. But the cast is amazing.
Speaker 2: David das Mulchin, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss so so so
Speaker 2: well acted. I mean it really he had that late
Speaker 2: night talk show comedian thing down and was really great.
Speaker 2: The directors Colin and Cameron Karen's you mentioned Rotten Tomatoes
Speaker 2: score of ninety seven percent, audience score of eighty two percent.
Speaker 2: So this was pretty much liked by just about everybody
Speaker 2: who saw it.
Speaker 1: And you won't recognize the names immediately, but you will
Speaker 1: recognize the star of the show is David das Meltchin.
Speaker 1: Now you'll recognize him because he's been in a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff and every time he makes an appearance in
Speaker 1: any movie, it's a standout performance because he's just that
Speaker 1: good of an actor. But also he has kind of
Speaker 1: a unique look to him. He has how unique look
Speaker 1: that you won't forget. And he's been in some big
Speaker 1: name movies. He was in the In the Dark Night movie,
Speaker 1: but he played a smaller role as kind of a
Speaker 1: crazy schizophrenic guy that the joker was manipulating. But he
Speaker 1: still stood out in a small role that he had.
Speaker 1: But this guy is he plays this role from the heart,
Speaker 1: the emotion, the fear, the late night cheesy comic, he
Speaker 1: does it all. This guy deserves more leading roles. He's
Speaker 1: pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is really really good.
Speaker 2: And you know, we put this on our list because yes,
Speaker 2: it was well reviewed, but I think a lot of
Speaker 2: folks who do love horror movies sometimes the really really
Speaker 2: really high reviewed movies are very high brow, very artsy,
Speaker 2: and this one seemed like it could be that. So
Speaker 2: that's why I think I had and I don't know
Speaker 2: about you, babe, but I had kind of like skipped
Speaker 2: over it. I saw it a lot. It was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, And then I am
Speaker 2: so happy that we decided to watch it. And that's
Speaker 2: why we wanted to make sure we put this on
Speaker 2: the list because it could be one that you skipped over.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like it didn't have a big promotion. You're
Speaker 2: hearing about it in the box office so much.
Speaker 3: But you did.
Speaker 2: If you are looking at horror movies and you're looking
Speaker 2: through the streaming services, you might be like, what is
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 1: It won't it won't. His name won't jump out, his
Speaker 1: face won't necessarily jump out, the movie art won't jump out.
Speaker 1: You can't really tell what's going to happen, and even
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell you a little more than just the synopsis.
Speaker 1: It's not a secret they're trying to hide. But even
Speaker 1: the synopsis and how the movie goes along, you can't
Speaker 1: quite figure out what's happening, what's real, what's not, where
Speaker 1: we're going, or even what type of horror movie. And
Speaker 1: then all hell breaks leave.
Speaker 2: That's all hell breaks loose. Actually, so the critic consensus.
Speaker 2: I like the way they wrote this. This is they
Speaker 2: collected all the different critics opinions. Delightfully dark, Late Night
Speaker 2: with the Devil proves Possession horror isn't played out and
Speaker 2: serves as an outstanding showcase for David des Melchin so
Speaker 2: they even mention him in the critics consensus because his
Speaker 2: performance again was so good, but they.
Speaker 1: Let you know they're in the in the that critic consensus,
Speaker 1: this is a possession horror movie. Now for some weren't
Speaker 1: you talking about Some people deal with supernatural better than
Speaker 1: they do than those Slasher correct and through the woods.
Speaker 1: Sometimes these are creepier for us.
Speaker 2: It depends on where your belief system lies. You know, yes,
Speaker 2: of course you could always be hunted down by a
Speaker 2: masked stranger in the night. But if you also believe
Speaker 2: the devil is real, there are no locks for the devil,
Speaker 2: and this one is scary and it apparently doesn't care
Speaker 2: where you are or if cameras are rolling in this film,
Speaker 2: So it's really really entertaining, but spooky and creepy and
Speaker 2: keeps you guessing all at the same time.
Speaker 1: Other critic review this is one I had to actually
Speaker 1: struggle to find people that had negative things to say
Speaker 1: about this movie, because certainly on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly love it. There was one in here I want
Speaker 1: because they put it better Robes than I could actually
Speaker 1: put it. In their description an original and disturbing horror film,
Speaker 1: that takes the found footage formula to new ground, showing
Speaker 1: us how the excessive ambition for success can become an
Speaker 1: unstoppable evil. I thought that was an interesting way should
Speaker 1: put it. I didn't take it that deep necessarily, but
Speaker 1: that is ambition and winning at all costs kind of
Speaker 1: is really the foundation.
Speaker 2: Of the movie, right that whole don't make a Deal
Speaker 2: with the Devil. It kind of plays out in this
Speaker 2: film in unexpected ways when you least suspect it what happened.
Speaker 2: I liked this one too, very similar to the fact
Speaker 2: that it pushed a genre to a new level or
Speaker 2: to a new place, which was really cool.
Speaker 3: It's hard to do.
Speaker 2: There are so many horror movies coming out, this critic said,
Speaker 2: Late Night with the Devil evolves the legacy of the
Speaker 2: horror classics before it, pushing the genre to exciting new heights,
Speaker 2: as well as elevating David Dustmlchin to the leading man's status.
Speaker 3: He more than deserves. See they agree with what you
Speaker 3: just said, and.
Speaker 1: It carves its own identity from familiar materials, making a
Speaker 1: unique space for itself in an increasingly crowded field. We
Speaker 1: have to keep giving him credit. He is so key look,
Speaker 1: there are great performances throughout, but.
Speaker 3: Man, he was he was great.
Speaker 1: It was almost like he was the center of the
Speaker 1: ringleader of a circus because so much was going on
Speaker 1: around him, and he was trying to play to so
Speaker 1: many different audience, literally a live viewing audience. But he
Speaker 1: had to deal with his stage manager one way, and
Speaker 1: had to deal with his child the other way. He
Speaker 1: had to deal with his producer another way, all the
Speaker 1: while trying to make an incredible television show and keep
Speaker 1: his job. He juggled this thing really really well.
Speaker 3: Should we read the one negative comment that you found?
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, go ahead, So this is the one
Speaker 2: negative critic that we found that we I couldn't agree
Speaker 2: less with this person. But they wrote Late Night with
Speaker 2: the Devil could have been an interesting examination of power. Instead,
Speaker 2: it is a sloppy, dull movie that refuses to commit
Speaker 2: to its own format, aesthetic, or themes. I wonder after
Speaker 2: that critic wrote that and then saw everyone else's glory,
Speaker 2: thought oh, maybe I missed the mark, or.
Speaker 1: Maybe saw all of them and thought, hmm, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go with group think to say this movie is dull,
Speaker 1: that's insane, Like this critic might have fallen asleep while watching, unless.
Speaker 2: They maybe wanted that slasher racing heart just start to finish,
Speaker 2: and there are those horror movies out there for you.
Speaker 2: This one is just there's a great payoff towards the
Speaker 2: end of the film. It is absolutely worth the wait.
Speaker 2: If for some reason you think it's dull to begin with,
Speaker 2: just wait because it is anything.
Speaker 1: But that's so hard to suggest, Like the performance is
Speaker 1: so if even if you are watching this movie right
Speaker 1: and you're complaining that there's no horror yet, it's still
Speaker 1: an interesting movie to work. Yes, so it's not even
Speaker 1: before horror comes. This is a thriller and that there
Speaker 1: are moments where you're on the edge of your seat
Speaker 1: waiting for what is about to happen. And I promise
Speaker 1: you every time you guess, you're going to be wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they and it all threads together. It all
Speaker 2: makes sense in the end. So it's so good. Why
Speaker 2: it made our list. I feel like we've been saying
Speaker 2: it ad nauseum, but just love the premise, love the
Speaker 2: creativity that it all takes place at a late night
Speaker 2: talk show where you usually at comedy and celebrities.
Speaker 3: Instead you get.
Speaker 2: The devil the guest that no one wants to attend,
Speaker 2: and yet he shows up.
Speaker 1: It's also they do a really good job with the aesthetic.
Speaker 1: It looks I don't know how they go about doing
Speaker 1: this and shooting so it's not just hair and makeup.
Speaker 1: It's not just the outfits. They have a man wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Is not just redoing the set to make it look
Speaker 1: a certain way. I don't know how they shot this
Speaker 1: in whatever type of film. Whatever, it looks like the
Speaker 1: whole movie looks like you're watching something from the nineteen.
Speaker 3: Seventies, nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: Specific it adds to the experience all this movie. And
Speaker 1: again the directors we name there are to some couple
Speaker 1: of Australian siblings who do direct movies together. They don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of credits to their name. Man, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the next thing they do. I
Speaker 1: love this movie.
Speaker 3: That's such a good point.
Speaker 2: You really almost feel like you're in a time warp,
Speaker 2: like you time traveled to nineteen seventy seven to watch this.
Speaker 2: That is true are It's an immersive experience. You feel
Speaker 2: like you're there with them in a different decade. It's
Speaker 2: really really cool. So who this four who is this
Speaker 2: movie for? If you love demonic possession, if you love
Speaker 2: building tension, a what's gonna happen next kind of film
Speaker 2: that's eerie and scary. It doesn't have jump scares necessarily,
Speaker 2: h but this is just a thriller and a mystery
Speaker 2: till the end.
Speaker 1: The look we're used to exists. Exorcist two three, The Exorcism, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Devil's No, The Pope's Exorcist. So all these you've
Speaker 1: seen a plenty of demon possession movies. We have seen
Speaker 1: more than probably anybody listening to us. We have seen
Speaker 1: a ton of them. We love them, and we will
Speaker 1: continue to watch them. This one showed us something we'd
Speaker 1: never seen before. This one is unique. It's not just
Speaker 1: a tired retreading this. They take something we are all
Speaker 1: used to and do it in a totally different package.
Speaker 1: And you are not sure what you're seeing. And I
Speaker 1: know what you think, I know what you're thinking. You
Speaker 1: know how this one's gonna end. You know where it's
Speaker 1: it is?
Speaker 3: Actually, don't you don't?
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna tell you who this movie is
Speaker 2: not for, what you should pair it with, and we'll
Speaker 2: give you a tease for our next movie. Recommendation. It'll
Speaker 2: be our number twenty four in the list. So we'll
Speaker 2: be right back and continuing now with our number twenty five.
Speaker 2: Late Night with the Devil just an incredible, incredible movie
Speaker 2: about the supernatural, about demonic possession, all happening in the
Speaker 2: year of nineteen seventy seven on a live late night
Speaker 2: comedy show. It is an amazing script, incredibly well performed,
Speaker 2: and yes we told you. If you love supernatural, who done.
Speaker 2: It's basically and just a twist on a possession movie.
Speaker 3: This is your movie.
Speaker 2: It is highly reviewed, well reviewed, and just a it's
Speaker 2: entertaining to watch from start to finish.
Speaker 3: But who is this not for?
Speaker 2: Look, there are a lot of folks who like some
Speaker 2: kind of horror movies and just stay away from the Devil.
Speaker 2: They don't want to be around any sort of possession,
Speaker 2: any sort of supernatural. So definitely this movie is not
Speaker 2: for you. And I would also say if you are
Speaker 2: watching it alone, I would probably not want to watch
Speaker 2: this movie.
Speaker 1: Uh, there is a there's a creepiness factor. There are
Speaker 1: several scenes We're gonna get away from the last one, right,
Speaker 1: There's a there's a final closing climax scene that just
Speaker 1: will blow your mind. But there are several big, big
Speaker 1: scenes throughout that build up tension, and those will if
Speaker 1: you're watching them by yourself and somebody knocks on your doors,
Speaker 1: going to scare the hell out of you, saying, there's
Speaker 1: it's too creepy, it's too You're wondering what's real, what's not?
Speaker 1: Did they see that? Are we seeing the same thing?
Speaker 1: It's too much of that going on that you were
Speaker 1: sitting in a dark room. That's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because this is a late night movie, I would say,
Speaker 2: you want to watch this late at night with someone
Speaker 2: who you don't mind cuddling.
Speaker 3: Up next to.
Speaker 2: I think that's probably your best way to set the
Speaker 2: ambiance for this movie.
Speaker 1: There's another we should just give a heads up. This
Speaker 1: is not overwhelmingly and throughout has gore and violence and
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, But the scenes that do involve
Speaker 1: the little ick are really icky.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a couple in the middle there, and there's
Speaker 1: a couple of things that happened that kind of a thing,
Speaker 1: but those do not are not long extended periods of
Speaker 1: violence or grossness well.
Speaker 3: Usually anything to do with demonic possession.
Speaker 2: There is usually some grossness involved, and so you can
Speaker 2: kind of imagine where that might go. So I was
Speaker 2: thinking about what to pair this with food drink pairing,
Speaker 2: and all I could think of was just given the
Speaker 2: style of the movie and when and where it's set,
Speaker 2: I was thinking like a martini, a Manhattan, some nuts
Speaker 2: and alaves, some charcuterie. I was just getting into that
Speaker 2: retro seventies feel of a late night what I would
Speaker 2: want to eat and how that would just fit the
Speaker 2: mood of the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, throwing your bell bottoms, your high tops and your
Speaker 1: pick and comb out your hair. This is We're gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna disco it up tonight. No, I'll let you
Speaker 1: do the food bang because you take it very seriously
Speaker 1: and I'm going to respect how you give very good
Speaker 1: thought to this beyond just my popcorn and a beer.
Speaker 2: It is fun, though, to think about when you make
Speaker 2: an experience for a horror movie, if you know the setting,
Speaker 2: you know the genre, to kind of tee it up
Speaker 2: with the right food and drink.
Speaker 3: It is fun and.
Speaker 2: It is good to know. Can I watch this alone?
Speaker 2: Should I have this with someone? You could watch this
Speaker 2: in a group, But again you're gonna be paying so
Speaker 2: much attention. I think it's nice to just have that
Speaker 2: person you love to snuggle up with next to you.
Speaker 3: It's less of a group.
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be annoying. You need people to be quiet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you because they have moments of tension that everybody is
Speaker 1: going to be on their See. You don't want somebody
Speaker 1: it's someone idiot yelled out something in a room. I'd
Speaker 1: be upset. Yeah, because they will ruin this movie. This
Speaker 1: is an experience this movie. Absolutely, Yeah, you get it.
Speaker 2: If you have a talker in the group, don't invite
Speaker 2: them because you really really want to pay attention to
Speaker 2: this movie. But it was I just I loved it,
Speaker 2: and I loved how quick it was ninety three minutes.
Speaker 3: That's our kind of flick.
Speaker 2: So please, if you have a chance and you have
Speaker 2: someone you'd like to watch a movie with late night
Speaker 2: getting into the Hollywood hall, I can't talk Holly Halloween
Speaker 2: spirit in a Hollywood setting.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: I was trying to say those two things and they
Speaker 2: did not pairwell. But this is the movie for you.
Speaker 2: So we hope you love Late Night with the Devil
Speaker 2: as much as we did. We do have a little
Speaker 2: teaser for our tomorrow's movie, number twenty four.
Speaker 3: Do you want to see it up?
Speaker 1: Yes, the we have another interesting twist on a horror
Speaker 1: genre that's been done over and over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. But again, this is one that
Speaker 1: takes it in such an original way that you have
Speaker 1: to see it. And we're not going to give you
Speaker 1: the title now, but they give away what's happening in
Speaker 1: the movie in the title.
Speaker 2: It also has some really beloved actors in it.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yes, but it wasn't reviewed as highly as we think
Speaker 2: it should be. So we can't wait to bring you
Speaker 2: that opinion about all these Well, no, Late Night for
Speaker 2: the Devil it was. Is that the highest rated movie
Speaker 2: I think we're putting on the list? Ninety seven percent?
Speaker 1: I think it might be, But again, eighty two percent
Speaker 1: from the movie goers. That's a little one in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I think it should have been one
Speaker 2: hundred percent and one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: So anyway, we hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2: We hope you're loving our Halloween hit list. We're going
Speaker 2: to have more for you all the way leading up
Speaker 2: to Halloween itself. I'm Amy Robock alongside TJ.
Speaker 3: Holmes.
Speaker 2: Thank you, as always everybody for listening.