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Film Review - Late Night with the Devil

Film Review - Late Night with the Devil

David Dastmalchian is terrific as a 1970s late-night TV talk show host in Colin and Cameron Cairnes's spine-chilling found footage horror gem

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Mar 28, 2024
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My first thought going into Colin and Cameron Cairnes’s found footage horror flick was these directors had obviously seen the BBC’s notorious 1992 prank “live” broadcast Ghostwatch. Yet this is inspired by American TV late-night specials a couple of decades earlier, in the aftermat…

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