The Reel Rejects - LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2023) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! David Dastmalchian

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Starting point is 00:01:41 I can't think of a better place to start. Let's watch this movie in three, two. She's got holes. Dreamer here awake. Dream or here awake. I was hearing Dreamer you're awake, which I thought was what she was saying, or the hypnotist was saying no i think you i don't know i don't know i heard dream or here awake man that was cool

Starting point is 00:02:07 yeah i like that movie that was cool i got really like uncomfortable for the last bit where i was thinking about like like reality in the film and also like in your reality like how do you like anchor yourself like it was really cool because it made me get out of my own like moment of being on camera and lights and be like, how would I try to figure out what's happening in this moment? Completely. I feel like the film nerd in me kind of comes out in this because it's such a smart way to tell this story where the filmmakers are like, all right, you know what we're going to do?

Starting point is 00:02:41 We're going to build one set. Yeah. But the set's going to be awesome. It's going to be something you can look at for 90 minutes and not get sick of. Like that Aviator Nation 70s vibe of the rainbow behind. And they're like, okay, we're not going to have many characters, but the characters we have, you guys are going to know a lot about them and what makes them tick and where they stand and what their motivations are. And immediately endeared us to them through that opening montage. Right.

Starting point is 00:03:08 Like they used familiar tropes to make us like feel like we're watching. His wife's dead. Yeah. This guy's talented host and his wife is dead and he's not doing as well as he thought he would be. He's falling behind in the ratings. And we're like, oh. What a guy. We've been there.

Starting point is 00:03:24 Us, yeah. Who doesn't have ambition to be doing more? Right. So I just feel like for the story they wanted to tell, which is a sell your soul to the devil's story. And maybe sometimes you can get everything you want, but sometimes you can't. And sometimes you have to make sacrifices and what are those sacrifices going to be for that story to tell it this way? Like, just they did a really great job. I'm curious the budget of this movie.

Starting point is 00:03:49 I'm not going to look at that. I don't think it was high. I mean, especially all those different like creators and stuff. The thing that's on right now is super distracting. Yeah, very cube two is playing. And I didn't even know there was a cube one. Well, cube two, very distracting eyeballs. I was really impressed at the fourth wall usage of the eye line to camera.

Starting point is 00:04:07 Like, that was always so incredible how you would be disconcerted. You would question what was happening and all the while using the set as a set and then making you as the viewer question what the reality in Canon was. Like the whole time, I didn't know what was real. And then the ending being hypnosis and, you know, actual demonic possession and all that stuff. Since you're watching it through a lens the whole time, it stays through a lens. It did help that they changed the camera angles, changed a type of camera they're using and switched to black and white at times. That really did help. Why can't I find this movie?

Starting point is 00:04:44 I think it kept you disoriented, too, by always changing the framing, the type of film. This movie came out last year. Oh, it was 23. Yeah, this was 2023. I'm going to try to find the budget on this. Because this feels like something that they really were like, let's work within these walls. And then sometimes when you do that, it really helps a movie kick ass. Well, I was also thinking with the six or seven production companies at the beginning.

Starting point is 00:05:10 It feels like something they were fighting to get made. A bunch of people teamed up to get it made. I mean, like, I love that it wasn't a lot of actors. Totally. Like, we know. It made it more immersive that I didn't go. Like, oh, the guy from that thing. Like, other than David, I don't think I recognize any of the other actors in this.

Starting point is 00:05:27 Late Night with the Devil breaks streaming service record as low-budget horror finds audience. And then says in parentheses, no, it's not based on a true story, which is iconic because... The Play, which thing, I love that. So many people must have looked that up. They did such a good job putting you, like, the... I remember Rob Zombie albums. They used to have, like, his house 1,000 corpses had news people as voiceover, like, describing the scenes of crimes. and for years, I thought that was actually like clips from the news because I just bought it.

Starting point is 00:05:55 I think if I was younger, I would have been like, oh, this is based off that thing. And like someone reciting something, the feel of the opening, all of it felt so immersive. This says that it premiered it South by Southwest. And it says that it was set in the 70s and just spent just $150,000 for visual effects. It doesn't give me the budget, but that for visual effects, which is crazy considering what these were. And its low spend and relatively tight filming schedule does not seem to have. hamper the movie's reception at the time of this it had 97% on critics creating on Rotten Tomatoes and was the best reviewed horror film of of that year at the time that

Starting point is 00:06:32 this came out uh wow that's incredible incredible yeah they did such a great job it's like they made so much money because that's what happens when you really tighten things up just yeah it's like it's hard to even not watch this as As an appreciator film, yes, but as somebody in the industry, like, Yukoi, my mind was just spinning like, wow, this is so smart. What they're doing is so smart. How they're doing this is so smart. These actors are really good. They're not costing you a bazillion dollars.

Starting point is 00:07:06 Okay. Do you want some trivia for me? Give you some trivia. All right. Guess what? What? Tune into the fly. The Carmichael character is very clearly based, including physically, on the real life James Randy.

Starting point is 00:07:19 Oh, I was close. I said Jim Varney. I meant James Randy. I was close to both names. Randy was a talented magician who became a famous psychic debunker. And he started an institute that offered a large reward to anyone that could produce their supposed paranormal powers and control conditions. Over decades, nobody was able to win the money. I can read.

Starting point is 00:07:42 Did you have a, totally. Guess what? You could read. Did you have a magic phase growing up? I can make balloon animals pretty well. Okay. So I, that's not a magic base. No, it's not, but I like your leap.

Starting point is 00:07:53 No, just like you think about clowns and magicians and party tricks and stuff. But I mean, like, would you watch all those Fox shows or it was like, David Blaine or like, I'm the guy with the mask? So once I could do that, the balloon animals, I decided I wanted to do some stuff. So I went to the store that had it had a bunch of card tricks. Okay. And there was a guy there that would teach you if you stayed long enough in Quincy Market. And so I would get my balloons and then I would stay to learn something. and then we'd go get the balloons and say learn something before like amazon or anything

Starting point is 00:08:21 that's great that's where we would get my balloons so that's and that's how i'd learn things um so i learned a couple like cheapo card tricks i was never very good at it but i was really curious about it because he was so good so i definitely had a magic love but not i don't know the big magicians as well like the people who love david bland are obsessed with him i yeah so now how about you uh i watched all this like fox used to have like a show like disproving magic or like there was this guy who was it who did it he was inspired by James Randy I think I was okay so I lived in upstate New York from the age of five to eight

Starting point is 00:08:55 and that would put it What happened? Well no I think I from five to eight What happened that you lived in upstate New York? Oh my family just moved for work So I lived up there for a tiny bit for three years Damn Yeah

Starting point is 00:09:06 You learned something new every day I was cold Rochester brisk But in that time I'm pretty sure I saw James Randy I think I went to like one of those things Because I think my dad is into it Yeah that's cool And that's why I knew I'm like this guy feels familiar but I would have been under eight so it was like such a deep

Starting point is 00:09:21 recess in my memory I was like you have some deep cut so you always do I was like at one point during this I was like I don't even know what you're talking about and I watched conjuring like the people that the conjuring is based on what you said it I understood what you were talking about but you see I was like oh but when you say it you say things so like succinctly as opposed to me who streams together who bobs and we because I was so impressed at the blending real magic what are you talking about is the show because I didn't didn't catch the names. Oh, right.

Starting point is 00:09:49 I heard it, but I didn't process yet. By the time, I was like, oh, that's so smart. I was like, what? Because I think playing with metaphysics and playing with the supernatural is really smart to blend in not only believers, but also people that I think that those people genuinely thought some of their cases were real. And I do think there were, like, the amdevil horror, I don't know what the house's problem is, but like, that's an iconic, spiritual, supernatural thing.

Starting point is 00:10:15 So making a movie that questions reality, I think. is really smart to use the names of the real people and the Amdival Horror House and make it so you're like, wait, I know these stories, this is true. Just so you know, the other day I was talking to Greg and he said to me something, something about The Conjuring, and I said, oh, I've never seen that movie.

Starting point is 00:10:33 And he said, you literally reviewed it for the channel. This is why it takes you a minute to process because sometimes you forget entire movies. It's because I watch 150 TV shows a year. Yeah, I can't do that. So things just don't. I think I watch like 10 shows a year and like 200 movies. All right.

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Starting point is 00:14:23 tier one compensation provided investing involves risk acorns advisor LLC and SEC registered investment advisor view important disclosure is acorns dot com slash reex thank you again acorns for sponsoring this video all right let's keep see I'm not reading these in advance so let's see what they say this I just see our homie david david's name in here so actor david dalzmachian was cast in the lead role after the film's directors read an article by him about regional horror TV hosts, which he had written for Fangoria magazine. That's so cool. Co-director Colin, sorry, Kearneys, said in an interview with the film's two directors published in the magazine, quote,

Starting point is 00:14:58 well, I mean, other than Shore just recognizing him's awesome work and all the films he's been in, but then I opened up, he called it Fango. Oh, cute. one day and read an article by David on regional horror hosts and reading that and knowing his work, I just thought this is going to be a really good fit. Obviously, our hero, Jack, is a TV host, so it felt like there would be some affinity there. That's so cool. I didn't know David wrote that.

Starting point is 00:15:25 That's great. Fun fact. You knew it? I did. Damn you. I thought I was telling you something cool. Fun fact, the artist we saw when I was like, Lucas Ketner, the artist that did that illustrated piece earlier in the film, David Descarteson's got a comment.

Starting point is 00:15:39 book called Count Crowley and the mediocre. So there's three different volumes, but they're all Count Crowley. And then there's a monster hunter element, but it starts with amateur midnight monster hunter, mediocre midnight monster hunter. And like the monster hunter that's the lead gets better at monster hunting. So it changes by the volume, which kind of... But they're a talk show host, like imagine Tales from the Crypt meets goosebumps. So this person is like an alcoholic, wants a job, becomes a CCTV monster hunter.

Starting point is 00:16:09 and then finds out monsters are real, but since she has the job of this Tales from the Crip thing, falls into the world of actually being a monster hunter. So he's obsessed with the universal monster movies, things like this, but also he loves talk show. David is. So David wrote this comic, and then this movie came after.

Starting point is 00:16:23 So, like, David's been writing this comic for... That's one of the reasons he and I became, like, close, is because I really loved his book, and I was like, you're not just playing comic heroes. Like, you are a nerd. Like, he's in Ant Man, he's in Dark Night. He's in all these things. But he actually, like, picks up comics.

Starting point is 00:16:36 Like, David and I always talk about the actual weekly comic. No one reads the comics every week Like me and him and Damon Lindelof He wanted to write one but he did it off what he knows So this movie felt like Not fulfilling There's very few compared to movies Talk to DJ

Starting point is 00:16:50 The market's like this big compared to movies There's some of you guys No it is very cool And he is nerdy I told you this before but David and I were in a movie Together Madness in the Method And I also interviewed him for Collider And we have some mutual friends and like

Starting point is 00:17:04 I've never heard one bad thing about the dude Never from anybody not once So it's really cool to see. And I'm sure that he kept the set. He's the biggest star in the movie. He's the biggest star on the set. I'm sure he kept it like a really great place to work too. And that's what you want in your leading man. Absolute Angel of a dude. This is kind of cool for him. Famed horror novelist. I love the intro to Stephen King has praised the movie. He said, I got a screener. It's absolutely brilliant. I couldn't take my eyes off it. Your results may vary as

Starting point is 00:17:35 they say but I urge you to watch it when you can imagine Stephen King saying that about your movie coming out with the results may vary but it was my jam that's so good I definitely didn't feel at any point the urge to check my phone I didn't feel my usual compulsion of like what do I have next like this was I was wrapped this is a good one too the movie made sick this is a money sign 666 666 so six hundred sixty six thousand six hundred and sixty six dollars on Sunday March 24th 2024 at the box office according to the distributor oh my god the double oh that makes me so happy in all likelihood it wasn't a coincidence as box office figures can be manipulated by around 5% by the distributor to compensate for receipts not tracked by ren track but that's still cool

Starting point is 00:18:22 that's great i love that well this is a theatrical debut for the girl who played lily why do i why do i feel like i recognized her though yeah that's because you watch on a 20 shows a year anytime i see anybody I'm like I know that person And then it's like From the TV So her name is Ingrid Terrelli

Starting point is 00:18:41 We're definitely gonna be seeing her more And she was terrifying What have I seen her since She was in another Oh she was in a show called five bedrooms She was in 10 episodes of it I don't actually know this show But I really feel like I swear that I saw her

Starting point is 00:18:56 I guess I didn't Maybe it was a nightmare Maybe she looks into your soul Through the fourth wall lens Yeah she's really good She was really good Her eyes were creepy. Like that Anya Taylor Joy face.

Starting point is 00:19:07 I love that everyone was just a little disconcerting, and we got to know them a little bit more, and we trusted them less every time we learned something. Especially him. Especially him. The only one I trusted more and more was... Gus? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:18 The Andy Richter role was so good. Like, that was so solid. And then even June I had issues with, because June's like, you know, she's my family, and I'm like, then why'd you do this? And then she was shifting away from her. And I was like, all the body language was really well done. All of the, like, do I trust this character?

Starting point is 00:19:33 Who's my? eye line who do I trust what's going on that added to the unreality of like what is this world what are we doing where am I who am I and by the end like the sound design was so uncomfortable I got like palm sweaty I definitely was like I don't like how I feel but the movie's exceptional I definitely have that weird like feeling in my bones I talked about I movies just stick in me and like that one was so disconcerting yeah it was definitely creepy and you're waiting for it and like there's nothing to distract you really which is a bare bone set was also yeah yeah totally we're not location uh just jumping around we're not just storyline B story C story like this one story and then the audience is so like uniformly bland other than a couple people you've met it did a good job making it so you're just in the story yeah yeah very cool very good job well that was late night with the devil it was an experience I'm so glad I saw it I had high expectations because I knew I heard it was amazing but are you glad you saw it with me yeah we survived it oh yeah guess what it was great it wasn't it's not our last we got two now to prove we can do this we got two let us watch the instigators

Starting point is 00:20:39 Casey Affleck Matt Damon Apple Plus is that the one we're pushing for it because I'll push I'm just saying a Boston show we can you think and I've been thinking I can't think of a single Boston based like movie that I haven't seen and I know there's not like thousands like New York but I think I've really watched every Boston major movie like one we can react to let's Google it after okay because like it's yeah I can't I can't the top of my head, I can't think. That's the only reason I'm pushing for the show because we haven't seen it because it doesn't exist yet.

Starting point is 00:21:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But let us know in the comments what you'd like us to watch. Actually, let us know in the comments if there's any Boston movie you think we haven't seen because that would be impressive, considering like, I've given 25 movies ever five stars and three of them are Boston based. What are they? The town that have padded. Goodwill.

Starting point is 00:21:24 Goodwill. All three, five star films. Much love, Reject Nation. Leave a comment below. Let us know your favorite Boston movie, your favorite horror movie, what you thought of this experience what you thought of late night with the devil and most of all after watching this check out count crowley amateur monster hunter then pick up mediocre monster hunter because he is a fantastic comic writer and lucas kettner's a great artist that's going to do it say bye roxy bye roxy

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The Reel Rejects - LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2023) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! David Dastmalchian

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