Late Night with the Devil

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

Critics landed overwhelmingly on the side of this found-footage late-night horror pastiche, singling out David Dastmalchian's performance and the Cairnes brothers' meticulous period recreation as its twin anchors. The gap between near-universal critical enthusiasm and a more tempered audience response is the real story here — general viewers found it enjoyable but not quite the revelation reviewers did. A handful of dissenters flagged rushed pacing and a finale that doesn't fully pay off the setup, but the majority found the commitment to its gimmicky conceit genuinely disarming.