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Late Night With the Devil

Opening this weekend, the new Shudder film Late Night With The Devil is currently playing in select theatres. I caught a screening of it last night at my local AMC. The movie is filmed in both found footage and faux documentary styles, showing a live broadcast and the behind the scenes of the taping of a 1977 program. David Dastmalchian plays Jack Delroy, the host of Night Owls, a late night talk show that’s trying to compete with the Johnny Carson show for ratings. The beginning shows his career trajectory, as he begins hosting the show, marries an actress named Madeline, who soon contracts lung cancer. He brings her on the show, talking about her diagnosis and how they met, and it becomes his highest rated episode. Soon after, however, she passes away, and the ratings of the show continue to plummet. In an effort to boost them, he decides to host a special Halloween episode for sweeps week, where he will have several guests displaying their supernatural abilities, and a skeptic who a...

Demon Seed (1982)

Last night, from the YouTube channel The Burial Ground5, I watched this weird, cheesy, sleazy and unintentionally hilarious flick called Demon Seed. A woman named Lisa is living in a beach house with her architect husband Burt, and their teenage daughter Michelle. Since Burt is so busy with work, he’s neglecting Lisa. The daughter starts seeing odd things and suspecting that there’s something wrong in the house, as well as noticing the growing tension between her parents. A demon woman named Belline appears, with a scheme to try and take possession of the family, and takes advantage of Lisa’s loneliness by having her be seduced by the spirit of a handsome man. Disturbed by his wife’s increasingly bizarre behavior, Burt seeks the help of his friend’s psychic wife Ann Marie, in an effort to get to the bottom of the strange things happening at their home. This movie was so damn cheesy and had me laughing multiple times, with its outrageous scenes of supernatural shenanigans, including a d...