There is room for maneuver to continue impressing horror fans, as demonstrated by the original and unpredictable The last late night (Late Night with the Devil).
The film premiered within the framework of last year’s Sitges Film Festival where won the Best Screenplay Award and now arrives in theaters with its 93 minutes of amazing footage, from FilmIn.
It’s not just us who say it, international criticism is unanimous and even the brilliant Stephen King (a great prescriber of content on social networks) has been impressed by this Australian production directed in a two-headed manner by Cameron and Colin Cairnes who manage to put into their film some of the leitmotifs of horror: satanic sects, diabolical rites, possessions, eschatology…
A devilish show
Jack Delroy is the eternal contender to crown the television ratings with his show Night Owls, but luck is not on his side and, despite his final tendency toward scandal, the numbers are sinking.
When his wife falls ill with terminal lung cancer, his inspiration fades but he still manages to revive the program’s interest by bringing her to him for an interview before her death.
Defeated by frustration, he decides to create a Night Owls Halloween special in which he confronts supposedly incomprehensible cases with the vision of a skeptical ex-wizard who believes that everything the program shows is a crude trick.
Delroy is willing to do anything to revive the program, even daring to hold a seance that will unleash evil on homes across the country.
Great cast, unexpected twists
There are several aspects that are in favor of The last late night. On the one hand, his willingness to go off the rails of the predictable: You never know what is going to happen the next minute and the surprise factor is essential to maintain the viewer’s interest.. Especially when everything gets out of hand in the final third.
Use the classic “found footage” resource heir to the literary “found manuscript”, that is, after a brief preamble in the tone of a television report about the protagonist, it is said that the images will be shown exactly as they were broadcast in the year 77.
On the other hand, the narrative structure leads us to play on a double level: we have the broadcast as is and the images of how it was made in which we see the decisions and conversations between the advertising breaks (these in black and white), which They provide more suspense and the impact of the future of the program on the team members.
In general terms, The last late night It does what many current horror productions do not: it takes risks with a different, new and well-told story that also serves as a clear tribute to what any horror lover enjoys in a movie theater. The “episodic” nature of the program that serves as the plot thread allows different topics of horror to be explored.
But… is it scary? It is not a film designed to keep the viewer awake at night, but it is very atmospheric, so that easy scares are dispensed with in favor of creating a generalized and constant bad vibe.
Otherwise, David Dastmalchian is the ideal signing as the protagonist given that it has a very credible point of vulnerability but also the ability to show very dark intentions. The young actress Ingrid Torelli also stands out with a fascinating presence and a fabulous performance.
In short, The Last Late Night is a refreshing, different film and one of the best proposals of the genre so far this year. Great news that it is going to be released on the big screen, where it deserves to be enjoyed.
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