Late Night With The Devil Summons ’70s Demonic Destruction, See The New Horror Throwback In Explosive Action
2024 is going to be packed with hit after hit for horror fans as this year will see the release of Ti West’s MaXXXine, the prequel to a beloved franchise in The First Omen, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s return to scary projects with Abigail, and more. One title that may have flown under the radar in comparison to the others is the David Dastmalchian-led Late Night with the Devil. Mixing the relaxing vibes of a late-night talk show with the presence of Beelzebub, the latest clip to arrive teases plenty of unsettling moments for the host and his live studio audience.
With a dark past in her rearview mirror, we come to discover that the teenager is the last remaining survivor of a gruesome mass suicide that was carried out by members of a Satanic church.
In the Late Night with the Devil teaser, David Dastmalchian appears as Jack Delroy, the host of a fictional variety show from the ‘70s called Night Owls with Jack Delroy. Even though the plot isn’t fully set up in this short peek, we get plenty of context clues that Jack’s latest guest isn’t all that she seems.
As the young girl begins to open up about the demon that’s living inside of her, the band’s theremin begins to go off the rails, making high-pitched sounds with no one remotely near it, forcing glasses to break and the audience members to hold their ears.
The idea behind Late Night with the Devil is to form it in the found footage horror genre, so all of this will be presented to audiences as an event that has already occurred and then been stumbled upon years later.
While the clip sets up the plot for Late Night with the Devil, we know a little bit more about it from other press material that has surfaced so far. In the found footage movie, which was penned, directed, and edited by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, Dastmalchian’s Jack Delroy is looking for an exciting way to ring in Halloween on his show’s sixth season. To do this, he brings in a parapsychologist (Laura Gordon) and the young girl (Ingrid Torelli) who she’s been speaking with and studying for her most recent book.
If there is one actor in the horror genre who deserves more praise than he’s getting at this time, it’s David Dastmalchian.
With a dark past in her rearview mirror, we come to discover that the teenager is the last remaining survivor of a gruesome mass suicide that was carried out by members of a Satanic church. As her time on stage with Jack Delroy and company continues to march on, the more odd and downright terrifying occurrences begin to happen – leading everyone there to wonder if this is just a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister.
The idea behind Late Night with the Devil is to form it in the found footage horror genre, so all of this will be presented to audiences as an event that has already occurred and then been stumbled upon years later.
If there is one actor in the horror genre who deserves more praise than he’s getting at this time, it’s David Dastmalchian. Sure, he’ll be putting guests in the hot seat in Late Night with the Devil, but his career has tossed him into the middle of some truly stacked casts.
In 2023, the actor appeared in Rob Savage’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Boogeyman, Hulu’s Boston Strangler, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the supernatural thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award-sweeping historical drama, Oppenheimer.
Like a handful of other highly-anticipated productions including David Leitch’s The Fall Guy, Late Night with the Devil celebrated its world premiere recently at SXSW. Those hoping to catch it in theaters can do so on March 22 while Shudder will pick up streaming rights on April 19.
