Late Night with the Devil

   Hey there we are back with another Movie review. We went to see Late Night with the Devil and i must say it was to say the least interesting. As you know I am  huge fan of Horror movies and all things of that nature. I was very excited to see that one of my favorite horror Authors had said it was great and he couldn't look away ( Stephen King not a direct quote but basically what he said). If he liked it it must be amazing with a horrible ending ( baduuuncha.... if y9ou know you know) jk jk but seriously. Anyways so got to the theater , got my snacks because well Snacks, then went to sit down. Our seats were broken so they gave us new seats and turns out they were better seats and away from everyone so it was nice to be able to concentrate on just the movie. Lets get to the review and as you know i will be giving away a few spoilers but nothing that gives the whole story away. NO WORRIES GEEZ!!!

   So it starts out with a bit of a back story. I like this because it doesn't just jump in without giving any details as to what is going on so you kinda get a feel for the movie before the movie really gets started. It is also shot like a found footage story. I love how his whole movie is shot because it shows behind the scenes footage and during the filming as well so you get a pretty cool look into the show. It made me feel like i was there live with him sometimes and i fully felt submerged in the story honestly.  The never before seen footage is told to be a " never aired episode / Never before seen footage " . This is where they talk about what was big back then which was the occult and satanic rituals and things of the sort. It tells how Jack may have been involved with a secret society of rich people who gathered in the woods and did mysterious rituals. It also shows other things going on in the world like a satanic cult who bred children just to be sacrificed and all that. Also showed the wars, protests, serial Killers like Charles Manson and other Cults. Cut to....

     It pans to Jack DelRoy (  David Dastmalchian ) a very charismatic handsome ( i think he is handsome) talk show host who seems to be such a nice guy. He is the late night host for a show called Night Owls and it at the time, since it is set back in 1977 era, his biggest competition is obviously Johnny Carson and it references this a lot. He of course he is accompanied by his co-host aka announcer Gus (( Rhys Auteri) who was a vey sweet and endearing person  personally i loved him so much. Anywhoooooo, his show seems pretty normal and he is doing pretty good. His rating get higher and higher and he almost gets up there to number one. they do everything and try everything but alas there is not much left that they can do. 

  A bit of a while goes forward and we are cut to his wife developing terminal lung cancer just out of the blue. They emphasize that she was not a smoker so some speculated towards the secret society he was in being responsible but we move forward. He does a show that featured his beautiful wife  ( mid you her name in the movie is Madeleine DelRoy (Georgina Haig) ... keep that in mind. It was a beautiful episode they aired but sadly shortly after that she had passed away and Jack disappears for a month. He comes back and when he does there is a bunch of bad ratings issue. In fear of losing his sponsorship he comes up with a plan to hopefully save his show on Halloween Night.

  Cut to Halloween Night he decides this is a night for the paranormal. He invites a medium/ Psychic named Christou  ( Fayssal Bazzi ) , a Skeptic named Carmichael Haig who was once a " psychic/ illusionist " ( Ian Bliss ) , and a Para-Psychologist June ross-Mitchell ( Laura Gordon) who is a medium to a girl named Lilly D'Abo (Ingrid Torelli) a 13 year old girl who was rescued from a cult who sacrifices children to their demon Abraxas after they set fire to themselves and the house,  who is believed to be possessed by the Demon. 

   First on the Show is Christou who shows his skills being a traveling Psychic and connects with a mother and her daughter and gives them closure, awwwww,  and then before he is about to go sit down and his segment be done he gets a severe pain in his head and starts saying someone named Minnie is trying to contact someone. then he gets very sick looking and starts coughing randomly. They help him get him some water and then he goes and sits down, they then invite Carmichael on and he tries to debunk everything that Christou says and in a shocking turn it turns out that the person Minnie that Christou was talking about was probably Jack's deceased wife who he nicknamed Minnie along time ago. Of course Carmichael thinks its a staged act and starts to harass Christou and Jack and Christou gets up to leave and then starts coughing uncontrollably. He then starts throwing up violently what looks like black tar and gets rushed to the hospital.. Later we find out he has SPOILER ALERT has past away de to his lungs Hemorrhaging but Jack tells no one . Planning to after the show just not during i am assuming. 

    Next up time to bring out the guests of honor and as this time is passing Gus and the rest of the crew became very concerned with everything that is going on. Gus does not want the next segment to happen and for good reason. He brings out June and Lily. She was a sweet girl but it did seem creepy everytime she smiled. So they came out and of course Carmichael calls them fake and is told to shut up so they can speak. They speak about Junes book that she wrote about her and her conversations with the girl while under her care. Jack then says can we have a live demonstration to see June talk to Abraxas through Lily. June is very concerned but then gets talked into it by Lily who just wants everyone to know they are not lying. 

     This is where the shit starts to hit the fan. June tells everyone to be quiet and remain calm so Lily can focus. She then proceeds to contact the demon inside her. the demon comes through and Lilys face changes and she starts saying she knows Jack from " we met amongst the tall trees" (referring to the cult ) that June thinks he is Handsome and everything. She then says some more inappropriate things and June snaps her back to reality.  Carmichael then tries to debunk it and does a full hypnosis on Gus and the entire studio and crowd. He makes them think that it was getting hot int here and that Gus has worms coming out of his body and then he snaps him back to reality and he is completely fine and the whole building is in shock. 

   In order to prove his theory they played back the tape to see what actually happened during the hypnosis and turns out nothing actually happened he just made everyone think that. Which makes Lily say if tapes prove what's real and what's not then they should play back her segment and see what is actually going on. After June says no way Lily again convinces her they should ....so they do. As they are playing it back they are seeing that it was definitely real and Jack sees something in the frames that goes by really fast and as he asks them to play the tape back frame for frame he sees his dead wife standing right beside him. As this is happening the entire studio starts to freak out and the girl Lily starts to giggle and electricity goes through her body. She then turns into her possessed state and then electricity shoots from her arms and it seems to be charging her up. the entire place and crowd flees and gets out of there the only people remaining is Lily, Jack, Gus, Carmichael, and June. She kills everyone but Jack and the producer pulls Jack back into the back stage area and the door shuts then opens back up as if he was walking right back into the show. Memories in a sort of montage or collage of sorts plays before ending him up knelt down before the occultist drinking from a chalice.

   A door opens in the back and there lays his wife on her death bed. He cries and goes to her. He says it wasn't suppose to be this way and that he loved her so much. She then says that "They told you you could have it all didn't they?" " Be number one. Well you finally made it Darling, but you had to pay a price". She then asks him to kill her she is in so much pain. So he takes the sacrificial knife and stabs her in the stomach. Then it quickly cuts to reality and he is standing on the stage with the knife in Lilys body killing her. He then stands up in shock and it shows everyone dead around him. He then continues to ask himself if what was happening real or fake , is he there or is he asleep or something.

BOOM movie explained now here are my thoughts on it.

   I loved this movie! It was very different the way it was shot and the way they made you kinda feel as if you were apart of the audience. I really enjoyed how relatable everyone was and how authentic they made it feel to the era in time they were focused on ( 1977).  I couldn't stop watching whether it was because it was funny, intense, thrilling, or just horrific. My favorite part of it all honestly was the ending though. It was so suspenseful and made you wonder what the hell just happened. It raised so many questions and honestly made me want to go back and see it again so that i could see if i had maybe missed something. 

   It had me thinking about it for a while after i left the theaters. It was definitely and occultist psychological horror flick and i am living for it. Everyone in the movie showed such great acting and made you go through so many emotions. then the end of it happened and everyone in the theater was questioning what the end meant and i love that. It reminded me of how i felt after i had watched American Psycho. 

MY THEORY 

I feel like at the end of it all Lily as the demon Abraxas was there to fulfill her contract with Jack that they had made in the woods with his cult he was in. He had asked to be number one and made a deal with a demon and this was the result. He became number one but it costed him everything and she was there to finish the deal. Well Abraxas used her to fulfill the deal and once the deal was fulfilled she tricked him into sacrificing Lily so he ( the demon) could be set free into the world do do more bidding. At the end Jack had killed Lily setting him free and he was definitely number one at the cost of everything he loved. I am not sure what had happened to Jack after you hear the sirens because it ends but my guess is if they had made it there before he killed himself , which it seemed like he might have wanted to, that he was probably take away and no one believed his story and he remains in a mental ward somewhere telling his story and no one believes him and just thinks he is crazy and snapped and killed a bunch of people. Gus , June, and Carmichael seemed to have died by the demons hands of course i think Jack only killed her but i do believe non of this is what Jack wanted. You could see it in his eyes. I felt bad and didn't feel bad for hi9m. I felt bad for him because he obviously doesn't understand that dealing with demons and devils that if they grant you something it comes at a price and it never goes the way you want it to, 

   As someone who studied and still studies Demonology and has a fascination for the paranormal and things of that nature, i feel like things to always remember is you may get what you want but evil is evil and it comes at a heavy price always. Even through the laws of any kinda magic what you send out you may get back 3 fold and when you do lets hope it wasn't anything bad.

Anyways that is my take on the ending and the movie in general. Lets rate it now

Creep factor 7/10 I felt this sense of creepiness in a different form through how lily would smile , talk, and act. It was chilling almost

Plot 8/10 a little predictable until the end and then it was definitely a whoa what just happened moment and again i am living for it. None the less i felt the story was well told and enjoyable.

Scary factor 5/10 to me it wasn't very scary but i feel like they really focused on the suspense of it all. I wasn't scared at all but it was super suspenseful and it made me unable to look away 

Overall 9/10 I fell there were a few things they could have done to elevate the movie just a tad and make it a bit more scary but all in all omg i loved this movie and i would definitely recommend you watch it at least once.