Late Night With The Devil - The Most Interesting Horror Film in Years 

Love how the one skeptic on the shows panel was a parody of The Amazing Randy

I really liked it, especially the end part where the demon is let loose. Her head splitting open to reveal, something cool, is what I would think a fallen angel might look like.

I loved how it switched from "found footage" to " movie footage" in between breaks. Im assuming these black and white sections are not part of the docu as the video quality is way too modern for that. Love how it shows the neglect of the guests and the situation they gradually put themselves in as they progress the show. Even my gf loved this movie despite the fact that the generally only likes the more gory horror movies. Really well done movie and I can't wait to see what these guys do next

RU-vid recommended this video out of the blue. Your first few sentences encouraged me to pause and go find it. David Dastmalchian being the star sealed the deal, I had to see it. Now I'm back and really enjoyed your video essay on it. The only thing I don't think you touched on was Lilly saying she knows Jack from the tall trees (the Grove). There were hints earlier that the Abraxus cult were charged with kidnappings. I did wonder if Lilly was part of the Grove's creepy gatherings, facilitated by the cult's human trafficking services, and that her inner demon remembers what she's blocked out. Those are the dark places my mind went anyway. It might have just been the demon saying he knows Jack was at the Grove gatherings. You watched 3 times? Does Lilly in her human form also mention Jack in the tall trees?

THANKS FOR CALLING OUT DR. PHIL

I think you could have also talked about how woman seem to play a part in this movie; its a MENS only club, he killed his wife, the person he exploits in the show is a young girl! my personal take on this is that the movie is probably pointing out the fact that powerful men exploit woman and girls frequently and why that is.

Came back a week later, had to watch the movie first. Great video covering this film, glad it popped up on my feed. Fantastic movie too! David Dastmalchian is becoming one of my favorite actors and this is another excellent performance from him.

This was an amazing breakdown and for it being your first amazing job! I’ll definitely be watching more!

I watched this movie and it literally left me creeped out for days. Definitely one of the best horror movies in awhile

the black and white scenes are to mimic 35mm cameras used back stage i think, considering in the opening of the film they say it was bts

This was such a well-done video. It's given me something new to watch too as I'm always on the lookout for great films Keep up the good work my guy :)

First, I enjoyed your video. If this video is your first time at this format, I would say your future is good. And I’d say your interpretation is not one I’d previously thought of, for a reason that I’ll get into in a moment, but it’s a good one, and I’ll have to see the movie again after I’ve given it a good pause. Spoilers, naturally, will follow. What bothered and distracted me-even though I really enjoyed the movie-about _Late Night With The Devil_ is that it seemingly broke its rule: what we are about to see is the footage interlaced with backstage documentary of the episode. And why wouldn’t Jack Delroy want behind-the-scenes footage of what would likely be his most infamous episode? He seems like that kind of guy. But we get a set piece that seemingly breaks the footage rule. Go ahead and laugh, but I stayed awake for two hours trying to come up with the solution. Then one hit me, and it made the film that much creepier. At one point in the movie, a character is hypnotized with a lot of fanfare, and we see the entire hypnotism set-up before we are treated to a scene with worms, nasty and monstrous, wriggle out of the body of the primary subject in a gross horrifying way. (Tangent: the demon is called “Mr. Wriggles,” by Lilly, and there seems to be a fair amount of phallic imagery, like really big worms, throughout the movie-more details pointing to Jack’s use and abuse of women?) After the tape is rewound to where the subject believes he’s pulling worms from his body and worms start bursting out, we see no worms, just a guy acting like he’s being attacked from the inside by wriggling creeps. It turns out our magician/hypnotist has hypnotized nearly _everyone_ watching. Why we don’t see worms on replay is that we didn’t see the magician’s prep work, or build up, into his act of mass hypnotism. Later, Abraxas manifests itself in the body of the girl. Lots of really bad things happen. But the weirdest and I think, most frightening thing is that we, the viewers, were _hypnotized a second time._ This accounts for the breaking of the footage rule. I think we cease to see view footage (until the end) just before Jack believes he forces his way backstage. I imagine we were hypnotized by Abraxas, but I also wonder if it wasn’t Jack’s psychic scream as he sees the Hell that awaits him. Maybe it’s both. I don’t think it’s ever clear. And having squared that circle in my mind, I feel a bit more satisfied, but I’ll watch the movie again as I think your ritual completion angle has a lot of merit.

I normally don't just subscribe to a channel unless I've watched multiple videos and have plans to watch more...but you did such a great job here I'm absolutely subscribing!!! Well done

David Dastmalchian was born for this role. This is what I’d consider a career defining performance. However, I was incredibly confused on their choice of "demonic entity". If they'd done a little research they'd have found that Ipos wouldve made much more sense than Abraxas.

One of the best horror films in years.

Great video keep it up man! I'm definitely going to see this movie tonight, thanks to you.

Like others in this comment section, RU-vid randomly recommended me this video essay and i had to pause it and go see the film before continuing this vid. Well I'm back and I am glad that i got to watch this one stille in theaters. Most interesting and fun to watch horror film I have seen since hereditary. Thanks YT gods for the random recommendation

Fun flick, but not horror imo, not tense or scary at slightest. But really enjoyed it.

The term "video essay" popped into my head about halfway through, can't believe this is your first attempt at one!

Yoo the video was super good. Congrats

This movie is so well paced it’s crazy

Enjoyed your essay, and I really enjoyed this film. One I'll enjoy repeat viewings of for many years to come, i think. I knew he was being shown a super dark version of his show at the end, but it never occurred to me that it was Abraxis giving him a quick taste of what Hell would be like after he dies. It's an interesting theory and it makes a lot of sense. But it was pretty clear his soul was damned. I had mostly thought of it as an elaborate trick to get him to sacrifice the girl who got away from fulfilling her role in the cult. I thought that maybe even the intention was to have Jack sacrifice Lily in the end all along because even after his wife died he never got those ratings. So they use that first "sacrifice" as part of the plan to trick him into doing the second one. Crazy devious. Oh btw, I'd call this a mixed medium film. Definitely not pure found footage, which, apparently i like better than you. I thought a couple of the Paranormal Activity sequels were pretty good. 😂

I wish it messed with my head more. Would have been better as a Twilight Zone short imo. It made me think of an episode of Black Mirror called 'Game Over.'. Gimmick aside, that episode messed with me a lot.

I really liked 2/3rds of the movie untill it decided to go for a possession storyline, the last sequence really nailed the cursed footage vibe, but i kind of wish we had gotten more of that in the final third of the film instead of the played out posession, a story.

Well done video! I had never heard of this show... thanks for sharing! 😊

this is such a good video dude! I'm definitely going to watch the film now

Its honestly one of my favorite horror films of all time, the "lost media" aspect of it is something im really into, and the movie itself is legit just great, too bad they lost the plot at the end, but other than that its amazing.

I just watched this. There was just so much stellar work at every level. It's a true delight.

Well done! I enjoyed this analysis. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the great breakdown of this film. What a unique and thoughtful approach they took with this film.

Really entertaining movie worth a watch, i wish they changed a few details and ways they filmed some of the behind the scenes shots but still a fun movie

Excellent content. This channel is going places! Kudos

I stumbled upon tthis video snd immediately stopped to go and watch the movie, I thank you for that. This movie truly shows that the creators did their homework to a T.

I think a deeper dive into your arguments would have been compelling but this reads like an undergrad presentation.

Nice video, never heard anything about the movie but definitely gonna give it a watch.

Excellent video essay!

Paused at 1:42 to go watch the movie

Thanks so much for the movie recommendation (I paused to watch it before finishing the video) and the amazing review/interpretation!

Well done. Subscribed.

Amazing work

Amazing video make many more please

Found footage you need to watch if that's your opinion of found footage: Lake Mungo, Hell House LLC, As Above So Below, Deadstream... Can anyone else think of good suggestions? I feel like the genre is easily dismissed but there's some real gems. Also, the constraints tend to produce really original ideas

You spoke very well. Easy to listen to.

Great work. I agree.

Why were the camera men filming them during the commercials?

So good I already watched it twice

I thought it was good. But, not as good as other similar things I've seen. I did enjoy the lo-fi old school look tho.

Ok so I just finished watching it and it was a great flight until it was time to land this thing. When he realized that it was the girl instead of his wife, suggesting it was all in his head, imagine if everyone who was thought to have died, was really alive and staring at him in the end like, "wtf did u do that for dude, everything was going great."

Love this video, gave me 2 more hands.

I love how the guy who ended his career by going after wendigoon said this movie was a “conservative” horror movie.

Did … did Jack make a deal with Stolas?

This movie owned

7:39 is this an Exorcist reference?

nice

Was there AI used for some of the footage?

Michael Ironside is in this???

Was disappointing tbh. Just didn't commit to the concept hard enough. There's a segment in V/H/S 85 that does it much better.

Not to call anyone in the comments out, but how can you talk about suspension of disbelief for a horror movie? Thats like saying fast and the furious had an amazing plot that carried over many movies. You dont watch horror for suspension of D. Just a weird comment.

Homie ill sub but you currently have 666 and I just can't in good consciousness fuck that up.

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meh, I didn't care for it. PPl over hyped it for me so I thought I was going into something absolutely AMAZING. also... suddenly EVERYONES favorite actor is david dastmalchian. I tuck and rolled off the hype train.

Just a nitpick, the mainstream religion in the US has always been Protestantism, from 1776 to now. “Challenging Catholicism” isn’t exactly groundbreaking for the 1970s, Catholicism has always been historically looked down upon in America.

Nice review, but I think I would've liked this more if the acting skills were more on par. Namely: the possessed girl, the wife and the medium.

Anyone who wants to learn more about bohemian grove should watch alex jones documentary about it. I know hes not everyone’s favorite but this is really good

Im the 666 like, I feel is appropiate.

Genuinely baffled at the positive reception of this movie. To me I cant understand how anyone experienced suspension of disbelief watching this movie. I felt like I was watching something made by university film students and local amateur theatre actors. So weird for me that I'm in the minority.

Okay real talk…am I the only one who thought this movie was just a long episode of twilight zone or something? Like it wasn’t terrible but it was predicable, the characters were one dimensional, and it was far from scary…idk it was just kinda lame..I mean I’d watch it again for fun but idk people are acting like this is a GREAT film have me very confused as to what they got from the movie that I just didn’t ?

yeah nah men this movie was not it, at all... l thought this was going to be like VHS, you know cheap but awesome effects, but it was completely the opposite and the ending even made sense at all. Stupid unnecessary story telling and drama just to fill half the movie its a big red flag not to mention all the plot holes

I love LNWTD, but the 'turmoil' of the 1970s is fiction. The 1960s was far more tumultuous. Bay of Pigs, The Cuban missile crisis, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and prior to that, Malcolm X, the secret MKULTRA program, the anti-Vietnam war movement, the Black power movement, the rise of the feminist movement (the real one), the American Indian movement, the Chicano movement, the wave of rebellions in almost every major city, the brutal repression of the Black Panther Party and anti-war protesters across the US, and the explosion of ethnic violence created the zeitgeist of the end of the world. The 70s was a decade of repression. The war on crime plus the war on drugs and conintelpro destroyed the radical movements of the 60s. There was a feeling of demoralization and defeatism. The anti-Satanic sentiment was media spin. Nobody serious fell for that bullshit. People were more up in arms about desegregation, inflation, and a lack of social services. Serial killers and cults were issues the media wanted us to focus on rather than all of the above.

Movie was mid as fuck ngl, interesting concept though

It was meh for me

Hey bro, you know that the exorcist is basically pro catholic propaganda? It didn't challenge the church it made people more religious, and that was the intended purpose. Religious people and institutions didn't of the movie but only because of the vulgarity.

he is not 'using' the girl she agreed on doing that and dont act as if a 13 year old girl is mentally like a five year old

THIS MOVIE WAS UTTER TRASH