What other horror movies would you like to see covered on the channel? I wanted to try a different format this time, more of a commentary than a deep-dive analysis. Apologies if you notice some choppy cuts in the edit - I ran into a few copyright hurdles with this one. Usually, I can still release videos even with some claims, thanks to the sponsors who support the channel and make dedicating myself to this as my job possible. Hopefully, it doesn't take away from your enjoyment too much.
Willy Wonka would be cool. I've always marveled at how the tone shifts back and forth between Wizard-of-Oz-esque whimsical (and moralistic) and grounded, frank, and straight up. Love the channel man. It's great you have something to say about the culture. Keep going.
do all this with the actual Randi videos. spoon bending, chi/breath, peter popov. good for you for mentioning randi, but you could do his videos and it would be even more amazing because they're true. Johnny Carson said it best. 'holy sh1t' (for real he said that on air)
@@JasonTorpy But this is a media analysis channel This is like telling someone who did a video analyzing "Field of Dreams" that they should do the same sort of analysis on a real Shoeless Joe Jackson game
The scene near the end when the skeptic immediately falls to his knees and begs to be a follower of the entity, only to be immediately killed. God I love everything about it.
@@boxmanfan08annndd this is definitely the vibe I got watching this. people really dont seem to be able to view this movie outside of itself... the atheist was the most obnoxious and obviously wrong "character" in the movie. this movie was shouting at you "HEY, this guy is stupid, look how mean and dumb and cynical atheists are!". well damn bro, you got the whole squad laughing!..😐 lol, seriously tho, this movie has a bad case of telling you exactly how to feel and who to like.
i watched this movie in october and as soon as it was finished i rushed to youtube and was pretty disappointed to see how few people were talking about it. such a unique experience and definitely one of my favourite horror movies of the past few years.
This movie shows that people were just so excited to see something original and small with a focus on acting and storytelling that we all overlooked the mess of a structure.
I enjoyed the structure. It was paced like a movie with a far longer runtime, which I actually appreciated. But I do understand that there are some choices made that many audience members didn’t agree with like the off the air footage, introductory narration, and the abruptness within the third act (which I loved).
@@milkman4743 from a story prospective i don't there was anything else left to tell. The girl possessed killed everyone in the studio, the guy killed her, in a messed up way he got his fame back. Also if my theory is correct and his wife was the demon in girl's body, it ties everything nicely
Yes! I watched this movie when I was younger and it scared tf outta me because I didn’t know if that shit actually happened. I feel like a goof now but man that shit got me good!
The Exorcism of Emily Rose was based on a true story. The film took liberties with the story and "jazzed" it up for the movie, otherwise it wouldn't be that good on film
I watched a members only live stream on some channel that I don't even remember of the Emily Rose movie or the important parts, rather. We had all watched it beforehand. We were watching more for the quality of the performances, yadda yadda. We're mostly artsy people, so we were doing that whole schtick. The thing I remember the most, and what we focused on the most, is Jennifer Carpenter's performance. If it's been a few years since you've seen Emily Rose, I strongly encourage you to go back and rewatch it, specifically the scene in the barn where she recites several lines each in separate languages. (The channel owner didn't have a clue and I was having a fit because of some of the things I specialized in.) The other, and even more mind blowing scene, is the dorm room scene. They were prepped to utilize a dummy/puppet thing. Jennifer Carpenter was like, I got this fam. And was read in under a half an hour. We replayed that scene SO MANY TIMES, not frame by frame. She did that with her body and nothing else. There are words used in the arts, they may now longer be used everywhere, but someone, a colleague or higher up, has to dub you with it. You can't just say, I am an A OR a B. They are Rubber Face and a Chameleon. Rubber Face dates to at least the days of Vaudeville, possibly prior. I could be a Google fool and pretend I just know but that's icky. If you wanna know the obscure deets, Google is thy friend. Rubber Face came about because theatre houses were vast and the people in the back don't always get the same show. Sure the audience shouldn't NEED to visual if the script actors and the quality of the production are on point. But you get a Rubber Face in there, it kicks things into high gear. Chameleons are those who can play different roles and in the back of your head you aren't still thinking of them as the other characters they've played. An excellent example of someone who improved before the world's eyes, and the SINGULAR PERSON I have ever seen be dubbed either of those two terms in a very public way, was Philip Seymour Hoffman. If you look at Twister and some of his early stuff, there was still a little bit of Dusty, his Twister character in there. By the time he passed, that man was nothing short of genius. And at the end of receiving one of the shiny trophies in Hollywood (for Carol maybe?) She called him a Chameleon and dedicated her award to him. Was he already considered a Chameleon by the industry, I'm sure. But Blanchett called him one right there on stage. Maybe things have changed and it's not such a private and kind of solemn or honorable situation anymore. And while I am not and will never share a performance space with Jennifer Carpenter or be her colleague, I assert 100% that she is both of those things. Didn't intend to write a book here. Guess I needed to word vomit a bit. Enjoy what you love. Horror is a valid form of art. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
@ it’s been a few years since I’ve seen it, but I have seen it at least six times and I agree about Carpenter. I’d love to see a come back for her one day.
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”-Charles Baudelaire lol i posted the comment 10 seconds before i hear it in the video, good shot
Baudelaire is my favorite poet (well, along with Rimbaud). The French just have a way with words that most Americans (short of Silvia Plath or Poe) could never get. PS- Emily Dickinson gets honorable mention...
Honest question: after all these years online, why do people still feel the urge to comment on content before consuming it? Ten seconds of patience and self-awareness, and you wouldn't have egg on your face.
@@Raab it want much better before the social media (aka everyone else) were forever online but at least we could be mean to the without it being considered cyberbullying
Almost completely unrelated, but in 1798, Henry Cavendish completed a year-long experiment that ultimately helped him discover a rough gravitational constant and he was able to estimate how much the world weighed with only about 1% error. He was also almost entirely nonverbal, and would write notes to people he needed to talk to.
I loved this movie, and I feel it draws a lot of inspiration from an argentinian movie called 'historia de lo oculto' that has a very similar framing device, with a live and retro TV show and all, but I liked this one better. Still worth to check out the argertinian one, Argentina has made some amazing horror lately, specially at the hands of Demian Rugna.
Amigo te juro que desde que ésta película sacó su trailer llevo pensando lo mismo, que el concepto se parece mucho a historia de lo oculto, de hecho llegué a pensar si no habrá habido alguna inspiración o hasta plagio de por medio. Me gustó mucho la argentina un poco flashera y se las ingeniaron para trabajar con poco presupuesto.
"In an age of hyperrealistic AI images..." Just a funny note here: I don't know if you guys noticed, that the "we'll be back" images used in this movie looked very much like AI generated images.
They actually were. And people were outraged, over the most simplistic aspect of this film being AI generated when theres so much to rave about from this movie.
@@RaccocooneyHAH, gave me a good laugh. the only thing im "raving" about was the horrible CGI, like DAYUM maybe should have used some AI to help you there bud 😬... anyway, if you are gonna be another producers parrot, im so sorry to break this to you, you dont have to accept whatever bs excuses the creators give you. AI art is theft. its trained off of real artists work who didnt consent. now, unstead of being paid, they are having a job opportunity destroyed because somewhere along the line someone said "what if we DONT have to pay someone to exploit them." there is nothing "simplistic" about peoples jobs and creative outputs being stolen by people who want to make money. thats what this is babe, welcome to Hollywood! your media doesnt happen in a vacuum, and holding people accountable is nowhere near a bad thing. for the directors; if you wanted people to not be upset and just focus on your art, maybe you should have actually made some art ;)
@@magicdolphin3090I hate AI art just as much as any sane person but I don’t think the movie having ai art should distract from how good it is in every other aspect
Funny enough, you’re not wrong. Late Night had an art team still. AI was essentially used as a helpful tool for this film. Do I agree with it? Nope. To be fair, it was 2022 and the way they used it was intended to be resourceful rather than lazy.
Thanks so much :) I was a little bummed with how this particular video turned out, but even though I'm not completely satisfied with it, reading those comments about the channel really gives me a boost
The film perfectly encapsulates the era it’s imitating. It’s not about over the top gore, having meaningless characters meant only to die, etc. It has so many subtleties and hidden nods throughout.
You convinced me to watch it in the first minute, now it's early in the morning and I have all the lights on, with that face haunting the back of my mind. It may be my inexperience to horror movies, but no other has done this to me.
it sounds like your inexperienced with horror to me. i also watched this with friends who were scared and constantly throwing warnings for gore and jumpscares. i was always expecting something bad, but this movie is so extremely tame. if you believe in spirits and are easily scared, this is a good horror film. if you have watched literally any gore video online ever, i don't think thid would scare you. i was born and raised on horror, so I had a headstart, but this is literally a movie i would show to my 10 year old cousin. kids growing up on fnaf and jeff the killer are yawning at this movie lol
There is one thing about this film and that is ‘dead air’ - a real tv show does not allow moments of silence, it’s known as ‘dead air’ and is poison for network tv. There is plenty of ‘dead air’ in the film because silence is dramatic and great for building tension.
Watching this film in the movie theatre was an unparalleled experience. You have no choice but to surrender yourself to the narrative. Even when it looked corny, you had no choice but to believe it, because it had spent so much time convincing you that it was all happening. The runtime feels strange and maybe even egregious on streaming platforms because you have the option of distraction. You can choose to opt out at any moment by simply pausing or looking away from the screen. In a movie theatre, late at night, with very few people in the room, you don't have that option. The hypnosis scene felt like there had genuinely been some kind of effect placed on the audience. All the brief moments of paranormal shenanigans disguised as camera glitches hit because you couldn't pause and play it back to confirm if it was really there. This is exactly why this is among my favorite horror movies of all time. It felt like real hypnotism.
Oh man, I loved this movie! I just finished this video and when I saw "Lancelloti Presents" I was primed and ready for another 2 or 3 hours of horror analysis only for it to end! Love the content man! Excited for more!
Amazing explanation, I think that the movie puts us in a POV, like you said in the era of the movie, that’s what makes it unique, makes you feel like your in the audience and self convincing yourself that it’s a fraud, even tho you know your watching a movie
My only problem with the movie, outside of the odd choice to use AI supposedly for rather random pieces, is the black and white behind the scenes shots. They don't really make sense in the context of the movie (why would a late night show have behind the scenes shots at a random taping?). While I hadn't seen it before watching Late Night With the Devil, I watched WNUF after this and it really showed what I generally felt was a better execution of a similar idea (I could mention Ghost Watch too but they didn't create commercials etc).
It wasn't a random taping. It was Jack Delroy's return to television for the first time since his wife's death. (The movie is set in 1977, in which Halloween fell on a Monday - the beginning of the five-night broadcast week.) When the crowd flees, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of the documentarian with a handheld camera. I appreciated the attention to detail, but I still disliked that element. The filmmakers should have committed to the conceit by including only the live broadcast and unaired footage captured by the studio cameras during the commercial breaks. The documentary segments shattered the immersion - both by deviating from the core premise (rediscovered master tape) and by capturing conversations to which an outsider surely would have been denied access.
@davidlevy706 I hadn't noticed anyone in the background, it honestly raises so many more unnecessary questions. Why, in 1977, would they bother to film a doc or behind the scenes for #2 on late night? Why is the only useable footage during commercial breaks? Why were the characters that happy to say things on camera they wouldn't have otherwise said aloud? The physical copy does just have the love recording part as a cut anyway.
@@dennyt2704 I'm willing to believe that someone was filming a documentary about Jack Delroy coping with the loss of his wife and returning to his TV show. While unlikely (and a disappointing artistic decision, in my opinion), at least this is plausible. I share your other criticisms. From an in-universe perspective, those aspects simply don't make sense.
What an amazing video! Thank you so much. You just made the movie way better than I tought. Now I know WHAT was making me so uncomfortable while watching and, at the same time, I just couldn't stop until the very end.
the overall structure of this video is flawless almost as if it were part of a TV series. i loved the quote at the end about the devil. this video alone makes me want to subscribe to your channel.
I remember watching this in cinemas with my dad. It was the first proper horror film I've ever really seen, and I was SO excited, because I'd been the one to hear of it and organise for me and dad to go together. I loved it immensely, it did genuinely freak me out a bit without being outright like, distressing, and it wasn't just gore-saturated shock value horror like so many horror films at the moment seem to be. It does a good job of building intruige and suspense, and for the most part it used violence and blood and guts sparingly and tastefully! (tasteful in the sense that it didn't just feel like it was done for the sake of grossing you out.)
This was one of the best recent horror films, it really nailed some concepts. Dastmalchain or however his name is spelled is an ace who deserved a lead.
I really enjoyed the scenes with Christou. It seemed entirely farcical up until it made you question the events following the end of Christou's segment.
Gotta love films are where you look at the screen and immediately can see blatantly obvious acting. The best actors make sure you know they are pretending and directors remind you that you are watching a production where everything is fake and none of them are really in danger. Kinda like my compliments which are about as convincing as these actors
paimon damn, this is (if i am anticipating it correctly after the intro) exactly the point I was just thinking while rewatching Hereditary! the usual horror in the genre is created by the premise of the invasion of the socalled supernatural powers ("the thing" from outer space, zombies, the devil, you name it) into the human sphere, revealing its infinite inferiority in face of the indifferent, absolute omnipotence. or something like that. evil from outside comes => creates existential terror (psychologically or literally) for poor humans. while certain movies succeed by staging a drama with grieving people and horrific tragedies and slowly project the ghosts, demons etc. from their inside onto the world; trauma => ghosts of loss and despair? can't wait to finish this, enjoyed the movie in theater!
Late Night with the Devil is definitely one of my favorite horror films. As far as what other ones could be covered on the channel, the segment about horror films reflecting the current fears of their time is always an interesting topic. Delve into those.
Thanks I’m halfway into the vid and I couldn’t find the title anywhere so I was like great I don’t even what movie he’s talking about 😅 and the comments didn’t mention it either.
Reminds me a lot of Ghostwatch from the 80s, which was a faketv show but broadcast as though it was real with known presenters from that time. Look it up. Havent seen this particular film but will add it to my list.
I loved this movie, an actually well done horror movie after a long time. I do not like elevated horror type of movies, I just wanna watch a good movie without cheap and loud jump scares,or movie which tries to put a social message in the form of horror. This movie was a breath of freshly air.
It doesn't "break" rules...presents the story with a non basic line and development. It shows a dynamic take on new audiences, younger people mainly..which is why it seems it achieved something else. It is a great film, though.
i fully disagree because to me it was obvious which parts were meant to be seen as real and which ones were meant to be seen as fake. christou was an obvious fake for the reasons you brought up but even if he didn't read all of what was written in those forms he could've said papa as a general thing associated with the dead and he was probably just wrong about it having happened recently and just corrected himself to say "but it feels like yesterday" in order to make himself seem more credible. even the demonic possession was clearly real to me because of how the characters were reacting to everything going on behind the scenes and because her facial features changed on live tv and there was no scene were the audience was hypnotized and i mean actually hypnotized with the spiral watch and everything. Even if it is a fear this movie delves into i think the scarier alternative is definitely seen as the devil being real, not only due to the devil being dangerous but because of what it would say about the character of our protagonist and june, the fear of what your really willing to sacrifice for your dream
I would agree with what you're saying if not for the fact that the film very strongly telegraphs the upcoming supernatural element, and a viewer familiar with horror narratives knows that the story must have a strong climax. In my opinion, this makes playing with the viewer, truth, and lie less effective.
The Exorcist and MC Clandish Philip's 1970 book, The Bible, the Supernatural, and the Jews would provide an excellent perspective on this movie and the cultic/satanic mindset at the time.
My problem with American horror movies, and especially with the American horror audience, is that they are so used to watching trash films that the moment a movie comes along that does things moderately well or slightly above average, they immediately glorify it as a reinvention of the genre and celebrate aspects as if it were the first time someone had ever come up with them. The fact that a horror movie plays with what is real and what isn't isn't something new-in fact, the best horror films are built on the premise of that twisted magical realism. Late Night with the Devil was a good movie, but it wasn't the best in the genre in a long time or anything like that. It was fine, and that's it. Honestly, I think you should explore horror cinema outside the conventions of Hollywood because American horror, no matter how hard it tries, will always be horror cinema for dummies.
*Nefarious* was an amazing horror movie. American made, extremely small budget, just conversational, but extremely immersive and so interesting to watch. Did you watch a lot of horror movies on Tubi?
... you realize its all of hollywood, not just horror, yes? ALL genres have this issue. I hate most modern films because we are stuck in a copy cat era right now. remake this, sequel that...uh oh, we heard this movie is doing good in the box office, better take some notes! this movie was so mid, and i felt insane because my friends were eating it up. HORRIBLE special effects aside, this movie tries doing so much it ends up killing itself in the process. analog horror is NOTORIOUSLY hard to get right. weve seen so many bad analog horror projects here on youtube i would think people would be tired of them at this point.
@@magicdolphin3090if you are so tired of this kind of content compared to your friends who genuinely enjoy it, it shows you are chronically online and spend way too much time in media and not touching grass
…fabrication of what? Did you not watch the ending? What the audience saw (minus the hypnotism segment) was all 100% real. It was the demon that the host made a deal with coming back to claim its end of the bargain. I’m really confused by what you meant of the real horror being that the audience was deceived?
one time I wrote James Randi an email thanking him for debunking fake magic my whole life. he didn't write me back right away, but about 3 months later I randomly got an email from him that was meant for his assistant. good enough! I talked to the legendary James Randi!
it's super interesting if you were to take the title literally. if the devil is considered the 'great deceiver' in most depictions, then it really is Late Night with the Devil
Great movie, I watched it a few months ago. Highly recommened. A few unneccessarily complex sub-plot elements towards the end, but overall a really excellent film. Great syle and mood and suspense building.
Glad i stopped watching this 30 seconds in and went and watched the movie first. But man i sure felt like peter griffin with a solid minute and a half of production studio logos
I thought this was about something completely different. I thought the studio was someone's Hell, and the host was the Devil basically torturing whoever it is for the duration of the film. Watch movies before you assume, people 😂
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch It's an interactive horror experience through Netflix. I remember having fun with it when it first came out. Definitely worth a watch.
I've always hated that phrase at the end "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Because that's ridiculous. If I were the devil, a far greater way to do it would be to convince the world I DID exist, and that I was actually the other guy. I'd write a book about it, talking about all the horrible things I'd done to humanity, but saying that it was all because I loved them, and that the guy who ISN'T me, whom I'd call the devil, is actually the real evil one, and that you should only ever listen to me.
was a little let down with this film upon my first watch but i love to give things time to settle and then a second chance, imo changing my mind feels good
i bet it feels good. wanna change it again? this movies AI usage is inexcusable imo. AI art, no matter its intent, is stealing from artists. AI trains on data that was it was never given consent to.
I liked your analysis; however, the ending of the movie kinda disproves the point of it being about "delusion" and instead points to being about the lengths Jack is willing to go to be a successful TV host. At the beginning of the movie, we're told about "The Grove" (a reference to the Bohemian Club and Bohemian Grove) and how Jack is a part of it, along with a "supposed" satanic ritual or occult practices. Jack is also asked, and it's mentioned a couple of times, "What would you sacrifice?" Then we learn about his wife's death. All of these hints suggest that Jack may have made a deal with the devil. That's why, when Lily is possessed, the demon speaks directly to him, why his wife's ghost appears when they're reviewing the tape, and why, at the end of the movie, he's seen killing his wife/Lily. In my opinion, that's the main theme of this movie.
same, and the arguments of "oh, it was only like three seconds" and "they WANTED the scenes to feel non-human" just make me believe most people dont have good critical thinking skills. the directors and producers are going to tell you anything you want to hear. a problem with the "its just three seconds" is this is exactly how it starts. they already use AI in films, just usually not this blatant yet. The more people grow used to and accepting of the use of AI, the more its slowly going to slink its way into movies and media. no excuse for not hiring an artist. the AI shots looked *terrible* 😔. its not "cool", AI is very well known for getting things wrong and uncanny looking. why is this movie special because of it?
What other horror movies would you like to see covered on the channel?
I wanted to try a different format this time, more of a commentary than a deep-dive analysis. Apologies if you notice some choppy cuts in the edit - I ran into a few copyright hurdles with this one. Usually, I can still release videos even with some claims, thanks to the sponsors who support the channel and make dedicating myself to this as my job possible. Hopefully, it doesn't take away from your enjoyment too much.
I _try_ to sub your channel *everytime* I watch a new video, of yours. Unfortunately, TH-cam only allows us to do it once, the first time. 😂😂😂❤
Willy Wonka would be cool. I've always marveled at how the tone shifts back and forth between Wizard-of-Oz-esque whimsical (and moralistic) and grounded, frank, and straight up.
Love the channel man. It's great you have something to say about the culture. Keep going.
do all this with the actual Randi videos. spoon bending, chi/breath, peter popov. good for you for mentioning randi, but you could do his videos and it would be even more amazing because they're true. Johnny Carson said it best. 'holy sh1t' (for real he said that on air)
@@JasonTorpy But this is a media analysis channel
This is like telling someone who did a video analyzing "Field of Dreams" that they should do the same sort of analysis on a real Shoeless Joe Jackson game
@@lancelloti. finish this one first. what was the "one moment"?
I hated it when she kept looking directly at the camera. It felt like she looked right into my soul. Very uncomfortable
That was kinda the point.
The ghost in her soul was looking at you before haunting you
@@ProjectMatrix It’s very clever; she knew which camera was being used just intuitively.
@@ryanhall7607 There's red lights on studio cameras that turn on when it's the active camera.
It was great, she did it as a creative choice that wasn’t even in the script & fits her character perfectly
this was the most immersive moment of the film. i truly believe that detail is what makes the movie.
This movie was a breath of fresh air considering the cheap jumpscares we usually got for horror movies
i kinda liked it but they used alot of ai images which made the whole film for me unwatchable imo
@@olyophogrificthey did? Where? I’m asking genuinely, I didn’t notice any!
The scene near the end when the skeptic immediately falls to his knees and begs to be a follower of the entity, only to be immediately killed. God I love everything about it.
1k!
@@boxmanfan08annndd this is definitely the vibe I got watching this. people really dont seem to be able to view this movie outside of itself... the atheist was the most obnoxious and obviously wrong "character" in the movie. this movie was shouting at you "HEY, this guy is stupid, look how mean and dumb and cynical atheists are!".
well damn bro, you got the whole squad laughing!..😐
lol, seriously tho, this movie has a bad case of telling you exactly how to feel and who to like.
i watched this movie in october and as soon as it was finished i rushed to youtube and was pretty disappointed to see how few people were talking about it. such a unique experience and definitely one of my favourite horror movies of the past few years.
I loved this movie. A much needed breath of fresh air in a genre that often feels stale
This movie shows that people were just so excited to see something original and small with a focus on acting and storytelling that we all overlooked the mess of a structure.
what do you mean? It felt like i was watching an old broadcast and everything seemed to flow well and had a decent structure.
@@theduhon9196....wtf are you watching bro 😭
I liked it a lot but for some reason the ending left me feeling empty and unfulfilled, like the story wasn't quite complete.
I enjoyed the structure. It was paced like a movie with a far longer runtime, which I actually appreciated. But I do understand that there are some choices made that many audience members didn’t agree with like the off the air footage, introductory narration, and the abruptness within the third act (which I loved).
@@milkman4743 from a story prospective i don't there was anything else left to tell. The girl possessed killed everyone in the studio, the guy killed her, in a messed up way he got his fame back. Also if my theory is correct and his wife was the demon in girl's body, it ties everything nicely
Exorcism of Emily Rose was kinda like that in the sense you are questioning if it was real or a lie.
One of my favorites.
Yes! I watched this movie when I was younger and it scared tf outta me because I didn’t know if that shit actually happened. I feel like a goof now but man that shit got me good!
The Exorcism of Emily Rose was based on a true story.
The film took liberties with the story and "jazzed" it up for the movie, otherwise it wouldn't be that good on film
I watched a members only live stream on some channel that I don't even remember of the Emily Rose movie or the important parts, rather. We had all watched it beforehand.
We were watching more for the quality of the performances, yadda yadda. We're mostly artsy people, so we were doing that whole schtick.
The thing I remember the most, and what we focused on the most, is Jennifer Carpenter's performance.
If it's been a few years since you've seen Emily Rose, I strongly encourage you to go back and rewatch it, specifically the scene in the barn where she recites several lines each in separate languages. (The channel owner didn't have a clue and I was having a fit because of some of the things I specialized in.)
The other, and even more mind blowing scene, is the dorm room scene. They were prepped to utilize a dummy/puppet thing. Jennifer Carpenter was like, I got this fam. And was read in under a half an hour.
We replayed that scene SO MANY TIMES, not frame by frame.
She did that with her body and nothing else.
There are words used in the arts, they may now longer be used everywhere, but someone, a colleague or higher up, has to dub you with it. You can't just say, I am an A OR a B.
They are Rubber Face and a Chameleon. Rubber Face dates to at least the days of Vaudeville, possibly prior. I could be a Google fool and pretend I just know but that's icky. If you wanna know the obscure deets, Google is thy friend.
Rubber Face came about because theatre houses were vast and the people in the back don't always get the same show. Sure the audience shouldn't NEED to visual if the script actors and the quality of the production are on point. But you get a Rubber Face in there, it kicks things into high gear.
Chameleons are those who can play different roles and in the back of your head you aren't still thinking of them as the other characters they've played.
An excellent example of someone who improved before the world's eyes, and the SINGULAR PERSON I have ever seen be dubbed either of those two terms in a very public way, was Philip Seymour Hoffman. If you look at Twister and some of his early stuff, there was still a little bit of Dusty, his Twister character in there. By the time he passed, that man was nothing short of genius. And at the end of receiving one of the shiny trophies in Hollywood (for Carol maybe?) She called him a Chameleon and dedicated her award to him.
Was he already considered a Chameleon by the industry, I'm sure. But Blanchett called him one right there on stage.
Maybe things have changed and it's not such a private and kind of solemn or honorable situation anymore.
And while I am not and will never share a performance space with Jennifer Carpenter or be her colleague, I assert 100% that she is both of those things.
Didn't intend to write a book here. Guess I needed to word vomit a bit.
Enjoy what you love. Horror is a valid form of art. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
@ it’s been a few years since I’ve seen it, but I have seen it at least six times and I agree about Carpenter. I’d love to see a come back for her one day.
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”-Charles Baudelaire
lol i posted the comment 10 seconds before i hear it in the video, good shot
Baudelaire is my favorite poet (well, along with Rimbaud). The French just have a way with words that most Americans (short of Silvia Plath or Poe) could never get. PS- Emily Dickinson gets honorable mention...
As read by Kevin Spacey too
Honest question: after all these years online, why do people still feel the urge to comment on content before consuming it? Ten seconds of patience and self-awareness, and you wouldn't have egg on your face.
@@Raab it want much better before the social media (aka everyone else) were forever online but at least we could be mean to the without it being considered cyberbullying
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The show being sponsored by "Cavendish" is most likely a nod to Richard Cavendish, a british writer that specialized in the occult.
Almost completely unrelated, but in 1798, Henry Cavendish completed a year-long experiment that ultimately helped him discover a rough gravitational constant and he was able to estimate how much the world weighed with only about 1% error. He was also almost entirely nonverbal, and would write notes to people he needed to talk to.
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@@foureducks1248 I told you never to speak of that name in my presence!
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I loved this movie, and I feel it draws a lot of inspiration from an argentinian movie called 'historia de lo oculto' that has a very similar framing device, with a live and retro TV show and all, but I liked this one better. Still worth to check out the argertinian one, Argentina has made some amazing horror lately, specially at the hands of Demian Rugna.
Amigo te juro que desde que ésta película sacó su trailer llevo pensando lo mismo, que el concepto se parece mucho a historia de lo oculto, de hecho llegué a pensar si no habrá habido alguna inspiración o hasta plagio de por medio.
Me gustó mucho la argentina un poco flashera y se las ingeniaron para trabajar con poco presupuesto.
@@YoureRightIThink all great art borrows from what came before.
Thanks for the rec! It's currently free on tubi right now for anyone else who may be interested in watching it.
"In an age of hyperrealistic AI images..."
Just a funny note here: I don't know if you guys noticed, that the "we'll be back" images used in this movie looked very much like AI generated images.
They actually were. And people were outraged, over the most simplistic aspect of this film being AI generated when theres so much to rave about from this movie.
@@RaccocooneyHAH, gave me a good laugh. the only thing im "raving" about was the horrible CGI, like DAYUM maybe should have used some AI to help you there bud 😬... anyway, if you are gonna be another producers parrot, im so sorry to break this to you, you dont have to accept whatever bs excuses the creators give you.
AI art is theft. its trained off of real artists work who didnt consent. now, unstead of being paid, they are having a job opportunity destroyed because somewhere along the line someone said "what if we DONT have to pay someone to exploit them."
there is nothing "simplistic" about peoples jobs and creative outputs being stolen by people who want to make money. thats what this is babe, welcome to Hollywood! your media doesnt happen in a vacuum, and holding people accountable is nowhere near a bad thing. for the directors; if you wanted people to not be upset and just focus on your art, maybe you should have actually made some art ;)
@@magicdolphin3090I hate AI art just as much as any sane person but I don’t think the movie having ai art should distract from how good it is in every other aspect
@@magicdolphin3090cry harder, ai art is the future
Funny enough, you’re not wrong. Late Night had an art team still. AI was essentially used as a helpful tool for this film. Do I agree with it? Nope. To be fair, it was 2022 and the way they used it was intended to be resourceful rather than lazy.
In my opinion I think you have the most interesting commentaries I’ve heard on TH-cam
Thanks so much :) I was a little bummed with how this particular video turned out, but even though I'm not completely satisfied with it, reading those comments about the channel really gives me a boost
@ I love your commentaries like dune or breaking bad where you see power dynamics
@@lancelloti.By the time you got to the ad, I'd already subscribed. Don't second guess yourself, great work
The film perfectly encapsulates the era it’s imitating. It’s not about over the top gore, having meaningless characters meant only to die, etc. It has so many subtleties and hidden nods throughout.
Actually the Netflix film Incantation did it too, such an immersive and terrifying found footage film
I just watched incantation a few days ago. The moment she wanted me to recite the chants and look at the screen????? Oh hell NOOOOOO
@@martinavega9536 i know right hahaha
You convinced me to watch it in the first minute, now it's early in the morning and I have all the lights on, with that face haunting the back of my mind. It may be my inexperience to horror movies, but no other has done this to me.
it sounds like your inexperienced with horror to me. i also watched this with friends who were scared and constantly throwing warnings for gore and jumpscares. i was always expecting something bad, but this movie is so extremely tame. if you believe in spirits and are easily scared, this is a good horror film. if you have watched literally any gore video online ever, i don't think thid would scare you. i was born and raised on horror, so I had a headstart, but this is literally a movie i would show to my 10 year old cousin. kids growing up on fnaf and jeff the killer are yawning at this movie lol
@@magicdolphin3090 did you really have to write an entire paragraph for this.
@@keiishine You don't have to read it, lazy boy.
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@@magicdolphin3090this is embarrassing honey. It’s not that serious
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There is one thing about this film and that is ‘dead air’ - a real tv show does not allow moments of silence, it’s known as ‘dead air’ and is poison for network tv. There is plenty of ‘dead air’ in the film because silence is dramatic and great for building tension.
this and 100 other moments broke my immersion so bad
wasnt huge on this movie when i watched it but i really liked ur explanation, keep it up man!
Watching this film in the movie theatre was an unparalleled experience. You have no choice but to surrender yourself to the narrative. Even when it looked corny, you had no choice but to believe it, because it had spent so much time convincing you that it was all happening. The runtime feels strange and maybe even egregious on streaming platforms because you have the option of distraction. You can choose to opt out at any moment by simply pausing or looking away from the screen. In a movie theatre, late at night, with very few people in the room, you don't have that option. The hypnosis scene felt like there had genuinely been some kind of effect placed on the audience. All the brief moments of paranormal shenanigans disguised as camera glitches hit because you couldn't pause and play it back to confirm if it was really there.
This is exactly why this is among my favorite horror movies of all time. It felt like real hypnotism.
Oh man, I loved this movie! I just finished this video and when I saw "Lancelloti Presents" I was primed and ready for another 2 or 3 hours of horror analysis only for it to end!
Love the content man! Excited for more!
Amazing explanation, I think that the movie puts us in a POV, like you said in the era of the movie, that’s what makes it unique, makes you feel like your in the audience and self convincing yourself that it’s a fraud, even tho you know your watching a movie
the excellency to recreate the same scare the bbc halloween special did WITHOUT leading to someones death is incredible
My only problem with the movie, outside of the odd choice to use AI supposedly for rather random pieces, is the black and white behind the scenes shots. They don't really make sense in the context of the movie (why would a late night show have behind the scenes shots at a random taping?). While I hadn't seen it before watching Late Night With the Devil, I watched WNUF after this and it really showed what I generally felt was a better execution of a similar idea (I could mention Ghost Watch too but they didn't create commercials etc).
It wasn't a random taping. It was Jack Delroy's return to television for the first time since his wife's death. (The movie is set in 1977, in which Halloween fell on a Monday - the beginning of the five-night broadcast week.) When the crowd flees, there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of the documentarian with a handheld camera.
I appreciated the attention to detail, but I still disliked that element. The filmmakers should have committed to the conceit by including only the live broadcast and unaired footage captured by the studio cameras during the commercial breaks. The documentary segments shattered the immersion - both by deviating from the core premise (rediscovered master tape) and by capturing conversations to which an outsider surely would have been denied access.
@davidlevy706 I hadn't noticed anyone in the background, it honestly raises so many more unnecessary questions.
Why, in 1977, would they bother to film a doc or behind the scenes for #2 on late night? Why is the only useable footage during commercial breaks? Why were the characters that happy to say things on camera they wouldn't have otherwise said aloud?
The physical copy does just have the love recording part as a cut anyway.
@@dennyt2704 I'm willing to believe that someone was filming a documentary about Jack Delroy coping with the loss of his wife and returning to his TV show. While unlikely (and a disappointing artistic decision, in my opinion), at least this is plausible.
I share your other criticisms. From an in-universe perspective, those aspects simply don't make sense.
This channel and analyses are amazing!
Professional level commitment to film review/debate, keep it up, Sir Lancelot LotsOfMolti
yes! we need "just a movie" back, something where the writer abd directors can flex strange out worldly ideas, without worrying about a 300M budge
What an amazing video! Thank you so much. You just made the movie way better than I tought. Now I know WHAT was making me so uncomfortable while watching and, at the same time, I just couldn't stop until the very end.
I loved this movie, thanks for your analysis, really resonated with my own thoughts.
I'm 2 mins in.. but I haven't watched this yet, so to avoid any ~spoilers~ I'll come back to this after I see it.
He gets this thing called ligma.....
thanks for sharing
Don't worry, I watched the whole video and it's incomprehensible
The movie is just hype.
This is exactly what I said makes this movie so great the fact we as the movie audience are part of it in that weird unique sort of way
This movie.
Was wildly amazing and wildly inventive and very original
the overall structure of this video is flawless almost as if it were part of a TV series. i loved the quote at the end about the devil. this video alone makes me want to subscribe to your channel.
David Dastmalchian underrated AF.
It's funny he mentions AI images when talking about this movie. If you know you know.
youre saying he is using ai because he said "delve"?
@@itchooses No, he's reffering to the controversy of the film "Late Night with the Devil" using AI images for intertitles
@itchooses No, the filmmakers used AI generated images at the end.
I literally got chills after the film ended
I remember watching this show as a kid. I used to sneak out of bed to watch it.
I remember watching this in cinemas with my dad. It was the first proper horror film I've ever really seen, and I was SO excited, because I'd been the one to hear of it and organise for me and dad to go together. I loved it immensely, it did genuinely freak me out a bit without being outright like, distressing, and it wasn't just gore-saturated shock value horror like so many horror films at the moment seem to be. It does a good job of building intruige and suspense, and for the most part it used violence and blood and guts sparingly and tastefully! (tasteful in the sense that it didn't just feel like it was done for the sake of grossing you out.)
the firsy 5 minutes made this sound like every other horror movie even tho u explain so much
Was a fun cinema expirience this year, but the end was a bit cheesy for me.
This was one of the best recent horror films, it really nailed some concepts. Dastmalchain or however his name is spelled is an ace who deserved a lead.
07:31 waited the whole movie to the skeleton guy do something o reveal that he was a demon or something
This is a real film critique, bravo.
Such a great video! Thank you for making it :)
The hypnosis spiral actually scared me, because for a second, i actually thought "what if...."
I really enjoyed the scenes with Christou. It seemed entirely farcical up until it made you question the events following the end of Christou's segment.
Gotta love films are where you look at the screen and immediately can see blatantly obvious acting. The best actors make sure you know they are pretending and directors remind you that you are watching a production where everything is fake and none of them are really in danger.
Kinda like my compliments which are about as convincing as these actors
paimon damn, this is (if i am anticipating it correctly after the intro) exactly the point I was just thinking while rewatching Hereditary! the usual horror in the genre is created by the premise of the invasion of the socalled supernatural powers ("the thing" from outer space, zombies, the devil, you name it) into the human sphere, revealing its infinite inferiority in face of the indifferent, absolute omnipotence. or something like that. evil from outside comes => creates existential terror (psychologically or literally) for poor humans. while certain movies succeed by staging a drama with grieving people and horrific tragedies and slowly project the ghosts, demons etc. from their inside onto the world; trauma => ghosts of loss and despair?
can't wait to finish this, enjoyed the movie in theater!
Probably the best American horror I've seen since It Follows.
Loved this movie, not a cliche where you always got surprised by a jumpscare. It gave you the eerie and unsettling atmosphere and true horror
I felt like the entire time I watched this movie it was setting me up for something completely different and it left me on a cliffhanger in the end.
I went straight to watch it and then come back. Loved it. Refreshing the inner turmoil it provoked❤
Great film! I love that it's based on real events.
I think film-video essayists are really showing their committment to originality by consistently titling their videos in exactly the same way.
Rachel Dawes got bored of being Polkadot Man, decides to run a TV business.
Late Night with the Devil is definitely one of my favorite horror films.
As far as what other ones could be covered on the channel, the segment about horror films reflecting the current fears of their time is always an interesting topic. Delve into those.
Thanks I’m halfway into the vid and I couldn’t find the title anywhere so I was like great I don’t even what movie he’s talking about 😅 and the comments didn’t mention it either.
Watched video till 1:37, watched the movie and now I am back :D like and subscribe, thank you, this is easily one of my new favorite movies :D
Great analysis and amazing video
Great essay by the way
For anyone that was wondering the other movies he was showing with the exorcism and the actor Patrick Wilson is called insidious.
AMAZING VIDEO!
Reminds me a lot of Ghostwatch from the 80s, which was a faketv show but broadcast as though it was real with known presenters from that time. Look it up. Havent seen this particular film but will add it to my list.
I loved this movie, an actually well done horror movie after a long time. I do not like elevated horror type of movies, I just wanna watch a good movie without cheap and loud jump scares,or movie which tries to put a social message in the form of horror. This movie was a breath of freshly air.
This a great video! Loved this movie
It doesn't "break" rules...presents the story with a non basic line and development. It shows a dynamic take on new audiences, younger people mainly..which is why it seems it achieved something else. It is a great film, though.
i fully disagree because to me it was obvious which parts were meant to be seen as real and which ones were meant to be seen as fake. christou was an obvious fake for the reasons you brought up but even if he didn't read all of what was written in those forms he could've said papa as a general thing associated with the dead and he was probably just wrong about it having happened recently and just corrected himself to say "but it feels like yesterday" in order to make himself seem more credible. even the demonic possession was clearly real to me because of how the characters were reacting to everything going on behind the scenes and because her facial features changed on live tv and there was no scene were the audience was hypnotized and i mean actually hypnotized with the spiral watch and everything. Even if it is a fear this movie delves into i think the scarier alternative is definitely seen as the devil being real, not only due to the devil being dangerous but because of what it would say about the character of our protagonist and june, the fear of what your really willing to sacrifice for your dream
Love this one!
"The thing" Please and thank you good sir.
I would agree with what you're saying if not for the fact that the film very strongly telegraphs the upcoming supernatural element, and a viewer familiar with horror narratives knows that the story must have a strong climax. In my opinion, this makes playing with the viewer, truth, and lie less effective.
i watched this movie in an empty theatre high on shrooms i thought I was gonna die😂
The Exorcist and MC Clandish Philip's 1970 book, The Bible, the Supernatural, and the Jews would provide an excellent perspective on this movie and the cultic/satanic mindset at the time.
This movie was _really_ well done...until the last act. 👎 Bummer 'cause it could've been a modern classic.
My problem with American horror movies, and especially with the American horror audience, is that they are so used to watching trash films that the moment a movie comes along that does things moderately well or slightly above average, they immediately glorify it as a reinvention of the genre and celebrate aspects as if it were the first time someone had ever come up with them. The fact that a horror movie plays with what is real and what isn't isn't something new-in fact, the best horror films are built on the premise of that twisted magical realism. Late Night with the Devil was a good movie, but it wasn't the best in the genre in a long time or anything like that. It was fine, and that's it. Honestly, I think you should explore horror cinema outside the conventions of Hollywood because American horror, no matter how hard it tries, will always be horror cinema for dummies.
What would you consider a good bunch of horror movies outside of American cinema?
*Nefarious* was an amazing horror movie. American made, extremely small budget, just conversational, but extremely immersive and so interesting to watch.
Did you watch a lot of horror movies on Tubi?
... you realize its all of hollywood, not just horror, yes? ALL genres have this issue. I hate most modern films because we are stuck in a copy cat era right now. remake this, sequel that...uh oh, we heard this movie is doing good in the box office, better take some notes!
this movie was so mid, and i felt insane because my friends were eating it up. HORRIBLE special effects aside, this movie tries doing so much it ends up killing itself in the process. analog horror is NOTORIOUSLY hard to get right. weve seen so many bad analog horror projects here on youtube i would think people would be tired of them at this point.
@@magicdolphin3090if you are so tired of this kind of content compared to your friends who genuinely enjoy it, it shows you are chronically online and spend way too much time in media and not touching grass
…fabrication of what? Did you not watch the ending? What the audience saw (minus the hypnotism segment) was all 100% real. It was the demon that the host made a deal with coming back to claim its end of the bargain. I’m really confused by what you meant of the real horror being that the audience was deceived?
I loved it!!
I really didnt like the ending, the whole cg thing just took me out of the film. Really wasnt a fan of this movie
This film really scared me but the scarier part is that I have goosebumps this moment watching this lol
one time I wrote James Randi an email thanking him for debunking fake magic my whole life. he didn't write me back right away, but about 3 months later I randomly got an email from him that was meant for his assistant. good enough! I talked to the legendary James Randi!
I love this movie. I also think that it's one of the most interactive films I've watched. Like a pantomime, but spookier and more linear.
it's super interesting if you were to take the title literally. if the devil is considered the 'great deceiver' in most depictions, then it really is Late Night with the Devil
Well done.
Great movie, I watched it a few months ago. Highly recommened. A few unneccessarily complex sub-plot elements towards the end, but overall a really excellent film. Great syle and mood and suspense building.
A short that has also a crowd-reaction horror I like is Right Place, Wrong Tim with Asa Butterfield
Glad i stopped watching this 30 seconds in and went and watched the movie first. But man i sure felt like peter griffin with a solid minute and a half of production studio logos
LITERALLY, I was watching this with friends and everyone was so confused. like, b****, wtf is "spooky films" 😂
That last line... OOF!
I thought this was about something completely different. I thought the studio was someone's Hell, and the host was the Devil basically torturing whoever it is for the duration of the film. Watch movies before you assume, people 😂
Loved it
The greatest thing about a good movie is nobody gives a fuck at the time of the release and then months later here we are
Disliked how they tried advertising it with an AI generated poster though
this movie is caked in AI. i wouldn't be surprised if AI wrote half the thing at this point
2:06 he messed up his edditing and shows the intro-climax timeline again for a single frame.
I got 1 minute in to this post and thought stop - spoiler alert… I’ll come back once I’ve watched the movie, as it looks good…
Love this movie so much. Absolutely exceeded my expectations.
All I can keep thinking about is the sponsor Cavendish. That s*** is bananas
What’s the name of the movie at 4:04 ?
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
It's an interactive horror experience through Netflix. I remember having fun with it when it first came out. Definitely worth a watch.
I've always hated that phrase at the end "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Because that's ridiculous. If I were the devil, a far greater way to do it would be to convince the world I DID exist, and that I was actually the other guy. I'd write a book about it, talking about all the horrible things I'd done to humanity, but saying that it was all because I loved them, and that the guy who ISN'T me, whom I'd call the devil, is actually the real evil one, and that you should only ever listen to me.
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was a little let down with this film upon my first watch but i love to give things time to settle and then a second chance, imo changing my mind feels good
i bet it feels good. wanna change it again? this movies AI usage is inexcusable imo. AI art, no matter its intent, is stealing from artists. AI trains on data that was it was never given consent to.
Biblically accurate devil
I liked your analysis; however, the ending of the movie kinda disproves the point of it being about "delusion" and instead points to being about the lengths Jack is willing to go to be a successful TV host. At the beginning of the movie, we're told about "The Grove" (a reference to the Bohemian Club and Bohemian Grove) and how Jack is a part of it, along with a "supposed" satanic ritual or occult practices. Jack is also asked, and it's mentioned a couple of times, "What would you sacrifice?" Then we learn about his wife's death. All of these hints suggest that Jack may have made a deal with the devil. That's why, when Lily is possessed, the demon speaks directly to him, why his wife's ghost appears when they're reviewing the tape, and why, at the end of the movie, he's seen killing his wife/Lily. In my opinion, that's the main theme of this movie.
Shame they used ai in it. I would've watched it if they didn't.
same, and the arguments of "oh, it was only like three seconds" and "they WANTED the scenes to feel non-human" just make me believe most people dont have good critical thinking skills. the directors and producers are going to tell you anything you want to hear. a problem with the "its just three seconds" is this is exactly how it starts. they already use AI in films, just usually not this blatant yet. The more people grow used to and accepting of the use of AI, the more its slowly going to slink its way into movies and media.
no excuse for not hiring an artist. the AI shots looked *terrible* 😔. its not "cool", AI is very well known for getting things wrong and uncanny looking. why is this movie special because of it?
@magicdolphin3090 And like. It is 3 seconds. Removing it would be so easy. They can fix the movie literally whenever they want.
What’s the name of the movie?
Late night with the devil
One of the best horror movies I have seen
This is 100% the dude from The Matrix 2 & 3.
I fucking LOVED this movie, fully aware of the problems it may have presented. My experience with it was phenomenal