Late Night with the Devil (2023) poster
2023 · horror · thriller

Late Night with the Devil

Directed by Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes1h 33m2023
ElsewhereIMDb7.0140kRT97%Metacritic72TMDB7.12k
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

Our read · Late Night with the Devil (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a '70s talk-show set slowly curdling into analog possession horror.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 25attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scareschild perilbody horrorstrobe

Skip it tonightLive-TV gore, strobing studio lights, or a child in peril will wreck your night.

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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