Late Night with the Devil

The cast makes Late Night With the Devil more than watchable, but they also raise our hopes for something better.

The Cairnes cite Sidney Lumet’s Network as an influence and I’m not surprised. They have come up with a worthy successor.

Its smart use of mostly practical effects work and its disciplined approach makes for a sometimes tense, often funny and always impressive horror film that even scaredy cats will appreciate.

An inventive and thoroughly entertaining pulp horror movie.

It’s wonderfully creepy and unnervingly familiar, like Alan Partridge by way of The Exorcist. If that doesn’t automatically enter it into the pantheon of classic midnight movies, I don’t know what does.

A story in which there is no shortage of allusions to classics such as “The Exorcist” and “Carrie”, but which has its own identity, keeps us constantly in suspense and leads to an absolutely brilliant final scene.

Did the malefic forces ever consider that possession might be more effective if they didn't afflict the subject with split skin, pronounced veins, and scary eyeballs every time? If possession actually looks pleasant, maybe a demon's job would be easier.

In a genre that produces so many variations of the same thing ... Late Night With the Devil offers a fresh approach. It has the low-budget production values of an old Roger Corman movie ... and the Cairnes brothers use this to the film’s advantage.

An exercise in style that, because it is so good, even serves to conceal the weakest points of its proposal. [Full review in Spanish]

Very good. [Full review in Spanish]