Late Night With The Devil

Started off well enough, as a supposed tape of a '70s talk show host's final show, in which things gradually go off the rails until a girl possessed by the devil destroys everything. It's a convincing enough replica of a 1970s talk show to be fun at first, but as the familiar tropes and over-obvious, winking references to too many different real-life things begin to pile up (IIRC we get both an "Amazing Randi" figure, an Uri Geller figure, a Paul Schaeffer/Ed McMahon cohost, and of course a ton of Exorcist nods) and it leads to an incomprehensible conclusion, it just turned into a mess.

A lot of people liked it. I'm not sure why. Can I say "Different, At Least" when it's this full of familiar clichés?


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