What would you be willing to do to be successful? The television presenter Jack Delroy, fallen from grace, is clear: contact the devil live in a very special program, on Halloween night 1977. This is how the latest film by the filmmaking duo made up of brothers Cameron and Colin begins. Cairnes. You can imagine that the program does not end well and that contacting the devil live cannot bring anything good, but behind the scenes we reflect on the ambition, sects and demons of a society willing to do anything for a minute of success. and a lot of audience.
The horror film starring David Dastmalchian has been praised and awarded wherever it has gone – winner of the award for best script at the Sitges Film Festival – leaving behind the promise of being one of the best horror films of the year, or at least that is what the writer Stephen King has proclaimed, who has described it as “absolutely brilliant.”
The Australians in charge of The Last Late Night, in a videoconference interview with La Vanguardia, explain that they decided to set their film in the 1970s “because of the collective psychosis that North American society suffered with the devil, the Satanic Panic.” and inspired by the television freedom of the moment inhabited by “characters who could say what they thought and discuss freely in front of the camera without caring about the reaction of the people.”
Nostalgic for the guests of the Australian late-night show hosted by Don Lane, the Cairnes brothers came up with a story about a man willing to do anything to get what he wants and in which terror simmers, thanks in large part to the sound work. : “Our sound designer, Emma Bortignon, is a legend, the best in Australia, she made Talk to me (2022). We worked hard to make the space look very real. And also a little exaggerated when necessary.”
The cameras do not stop recording at any moment, even behind the scenes where fatalism is preparing to take the stage. With each new guest the tension escalates until reaching a terrifying prime-time with a very special character: our capital sin, the devil in a suit live and direct.
