Director: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
A cursed episode of a fading late-night talk show becomes the whole story in this 2024 Australian horror film, staged almost entirely as found videotape from a single catastrophic night on air.
What is Late Night with the Devil about?
Six years after his wife's death, host Jack Delroy is fighting to keep his once-popular program relevant, and on Halloween night in 1977 he books a lineup built for ratings: a parapsychologist, a former psychic-turned-skeptic, and a quiet teenage girl who survived a mass tragedy tied to a shadowy cult. What starts as a stunt to prove or debunk the girl's supposed connection to something otherworldly slips out of the crew's control on camera, in front of a studio audience that has no idea what it walked into. The film sustains its single-location, single-night structure through commercial-break cutaways that hint at the toll the broadcast takes on everyone involved, letting dread build through suggestion rather than constant shocks. Because nearly the entire runtime plays as unedited broadcast footage, small details, a flickering light, a producer's nervous glance, carry outsized weight.
Cast & crew
David Dastmalchian anchors the film as host Jack Delroy, carrying long unbroken takes that demand he sell both a talk-show smile and mounting panic without cutting away. Ingrid Torelli, as the girl at the center of the night's events, and Laura Gordon and Fayssal Bazzi as the show's producer and skeptic guest round out a small, tightly focused cast built for a chamber piece rather than a sprawling ensemble.
Context & significance
Directors Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes shot the film to mimic the exact look of 1970s American television, right down to lighting and tape artifacts, which is part of why it built a strong reputation with horror audiences and critics on release. It sits in the same lineage as other broadcast-footage horror but narrows its scope to a single show and a single night rather than a wider mockumentary frame.
Where & how to watch
Late Night with the Devil is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, with Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer to follow the dialogue in Farsi. Browsing the film's page and details requires no account; only playback does. K-Time's interface is built with the Persian-speaking diaspora audience in mind.