☼ Movies I Sat Through ☼ Late Night With the Devil Review Nested 1/ tl;dr: very fun, great sets, snappy dialogue, barely sticks the landing - ThreadSky

dreutiful.bsky.social • 4 days ago

☼ Movies I Sat Through ☼

Late Night With the Devil

Review Nested 1/

tl;dr: very fun, great sets, snappy dialogue, barely sticks the landing

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dreutiful.bsky.social•4 days ago

Watched Late Night With The Devil last Fall. Probably the highest-budget "Shudder" production I've ever seen: a lavishly authentic set - from the grainy 70's "footage" of real events down to the between - "segment" interstitials (movie takes place in a talk show) 2/

dreutiful.bsky.social•4 days ago

- sets the backdrop for a belief-suspendingly authentic performance. Quick-witted late-night personalities and their antecedents play Wimbledon-grade quip tennis to a crowd dressed in convincing 70's cheese as you "view from your home TV set" 3/

dreutiful.bsky.social•4 days ago

While never overtly scary, I was wowed by its earnestness and self-restraint, completely engrossed in the made-for-tv melodrama of our host, "Jack Delroy," and the gentle implication that he's *too* good at his job to be second place, that something is amiss. The paranormal aspects display like 4/

dreutiful.bsky.social•4 days ago

a late-night patisserie window of family-friendly sleaze and dubious spirituality, the movie assessing its own (in)credulity with every smirk at the camera and guest-seat skeptic; this constant self questioning left my belief suspended until the (well over-trod but not unspeakably bad) ending /5

dreutiful.bsky.social•4 days ago

The "Barbarian" producers remind you of their legacy as well, peppering in a few returning gags and legitimately great one-liners that never felt, themselves, like snide 4th-wall breaks or shoulder nudging (no more than any other talk show, anyway).

I give it 40 shares in the company 6/

cyberxia.bsky.social•3 days ago

whenever it broke the “70s tv set view” to give you a very loose and disappointing bland explanation i was so upset. good movie, such a bad ending.

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