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Late Night With The Devil

[00:00:22] Scott: Does this hold up? And just what the hell is a good movie anyway? I'm Frank Roll. I'm Scott Moran. And we're the Last Video Store Clerks.

[00:00:58] Scott: I finally finished three body problem. I put off the like end of it for a little while. Yeah. We only got two in. Oh, really? I finally finished it. Okay. I'm cleaning up the loose ends now. It was good. I'll watch another season. I like everyone in it. I just, I lost momentum a little bit when I was watching it.

[00:01:35] Scott: And you'd be excited about it. I would watch another one. I didn't need it. And it was, uh, Sad ending. So like it was not a happy ending and I liked it. Would you rather see a season two to archive 81 or a season two to three body problem? Three body problem. Okay. There was more story to to see, but I had to gauge that I had to, I had to compare it somehow.

[00:02:23] Scott: But you're always going to be following these people. They'll always be the main characters in your heart. Well, they are. They're the main characters, the Stark children, you know, and they're still going to follow this group of people through more books, but I don't know. I, it's a complicated story and I find it difficult to believe that it's going to sustain its audience.

[00:03:09] Scott: I'm not saying below deck's better. Really not. Oh, so you're wearing a corn Holyoke t-shirt and I can't stop thinking about Ryan Gosling. . It's so good. Shit is the funniest thing. It's one of my pod shirts. This is like a designated pod fit that I'm wearing. It's like comfy, uh, anything else? TV movie. Um, you know, I was kind of slow on things, watched a little more evil because I hadn't continued with that.

[00:03:58] Scott: Well, you know, as they say, life happens. Yeah. We're a little all over the place right now, but it's fine. Yeah. Shit happens. Yeah. Yeah. I was putting in work, dude. I started from. No shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. At first I was kind of worried. I wasn't agreeing with things. Why does the dad have to be such a dick?

[00:04:33] Scott: Like where you're like, man, I like this. Like a little small towns. Okay. Yeah, that's good. Um, ancient, ancient apocalypse. With, uh, Graham Hancock? Yep. Yeah. Joe Rogan's in it. Is he really? Yeah, he is here and there. Um. I read Graham Hancock's book a really long time ago and it was wild. It's an interesting theory.

[00:05:15] Scott: And then he ends up with the overall like, Oh, like the reveal is pretty cool, like where he was going. Cause I did not read anything that he's done. So I didn't know where he was going with it. Um, I'm with him most of the time. And then like, he gets to a point where I'm like, but I mean, you're just. Like a journalist, man.

[00:05:56] Scott: Like, it's funny because one of Graham Hancock's things was the same fucking tracks where Aliens was at in his show. It was like a different camera angle, but I'm like, I've seen this in the last few years. Like there's only so much to go around but what I'm most proud of this week was I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit with my little one.

[00:06:28] Frank: does. I've

[00:06:40] Scott: Yeah. That one is special. Oh. Hoskins, man. Dick Tracy also is one of those movies from that time. I haven't seen that one in a long time, man. Give that one a watch, it's good. Warren Beatty. Yeah. Yeah. Madonna. Fucking Dustin Hoffman is the best part. He's mumbles. Like, put him in that concrete block. Oh, okay.

[00:07:26] Scott: Game Genie was just kind of like the correction. Like people were like, Oh, that's cheating. But looking back, I'm like, Oh no, that's true. Oh man. I've never thought about it. It made them playable. Some people just can't do that. I'm not a, like six year old Japanese video game prodigy, you know, back in the day, it was like one guy who could beat Mario in five minutes and everybody was like, Oh, did you do that?

[00:08:11] Scott: Dude, some of the shit they say in that. Like you want to talk about like the hidden adult humor in today's kids stuff? That was heavy duty in that one. Yeah, that was very heavy handed adult humor in what was like a kid's movie back then. That's one that I saw in the theaters as a child. Are you serious?

[00:08:42] Scott: Mm hmm. I'm excited to pick through Shudder though and see what we have. Yeah, we're sticking to Shudder, Shudder Summer of Shudder. Summer of Shudder. And, uh, Kelly was like, that doesn't make any sense. And then there was like a an ad at one point for like halfway to Halloween and she was like that's what you should call It and I was like, no It's gonna be halfway to Halloween all summer.

[00:09:16] Scott: If you could get the sound effect from what's his name? That one is loaded. Jody Foster. I can smell your cunt.

[00:09:32] Scott: Good call. On getting us to watch this. Uh, as soon as I saw this trailer for this, I was like, Frank is going to like this. Yeah. This is like all the stuff Frank likes jammed into one movie. Yeah. Except it's not in Chernobyl. If it was. If it was in Chernobyl, fucking BAM. This was shot in Australia? Yeah, the filmmaker was Australian, apparently.

[00:10:14] Scott: It's happening a lot. It's like gangs of women just beating the shit out of dudes. That's hot. Kind of. Makes me feel weird. It's like I got a boner, but I'm scared. Damn, Amazon women. It's gonna be like, put another shrimp on the barbie. Oh wait, those are for Austrians. Oh yeah, we have paperwork here. Oh, the papers, Josh.

[00:11:01] Scott: Oh, really? Yeah, and, uh, a couple of, like, regular theaters are still playing it. Like, Cinemark AMC theaters.

[00:11:11] Scott: I was into it. I really fucking enjoyed it. What got me really hyped was I thought I was going to take notes. So I went to IMDb and saw that the people have given this a 7. 1 and I was like, seven is that classy cat?

[00:11:49] Scott: I was just like i'm gonna watch this There was one thing I looked up one thing because I pegged one of the actors I always look up something at some point or need to There was a matrix actor Hey in this yeah, that's the one and I was like, I know that guy and then I was like Is that the fucker from the matrix?

[00:12:23] Scott: I was watching a police procedural. I think it was the rookie. Of course it was for you. I mean, that's not my only one. That's just the main one, but they were doing like an interrogation of somebody. And I was like, that's fucking Walt from lost. Really? Yeah. Like little boy, Walt. Yeah, but I saw this adult and was like, that's fucking Walt.

[00:13:11] Scott: That is so fucking crazy, dude. That is so crazy. That's the name that was coming out of my mouth as soon as you said that. It's because he's the weirdest looking adult. Because he didn't adult it the same as everybody else did. No, and I, I like him though. Yeah. The same. Like as an adult, I like adult Haley Jo Osmond.

[00:13:51] Scott: Oh, I like that. She's not even in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, goddammit. Oh, she's not? No, man. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Hey. I mean, all I need is Michael Keaton. Yeah. To be perfectly honest. I would like some Alec Baldwin, though. Please. Well, he's in trouble. I know. I feel bad for him. Do you? I do. I kind of do. I feel like it's one of those where, unless you were one of the people there and involved, you know, it's Yeah, you can't really weigh in.

[00:14:38] Scott: Who's been through it. Yeah. I want to see people change. That's what I want. And uh, I don't know. Alec Baldwin looks kind of bummed out to me. Like, I, I, mean, he's been through a lot. I mean, and then there was the whole voicemail fiasco a few years ago. I bet he'd love to go back to that. Oh, was he talking to his daughter?

[00:15:17] Scott: You tell him Patrick Bateman. Cause how scary would that shit be? Christian Bale fucking yelled at you. Anyway, Summer of Shudder. Summer of Shudder. Yep. We, we got another app. Yeah. And we're going to do some movies over the next, uh, a few months that are less accessible if you don't have Shudder. You can usually rent them somewhere for the most part.

[00:16:03] Scott: Yeah, hopefully. The next one's gonna be really weird. But Late Night with the Devil. Back in the 70s, the host of late night variety show Night Owls with Jack Delroy was on the road to catch up with Johnny Carson and the ratings. Love the Johnny Carson shout out at the beginning. I like that it said it in the real world too.

[00:16:48] Scott: Damn wealthy people at it again. It's a California camp for the elite. His wife dies of cancer soon after. It seems like there's an eerie connection. Something, something was amiss. Following his leave of absence, he returns to late night, and it's less than successful, and the special Halloween show in 1977 goes down in live television history.

[00:17:21] Frank: Hi, I'm Lily. I'm a

[00:17:35] Scott: There were a couple of times before that too, where I was like, Oh, this is gonna get really awkward. Did you like the little hints like, hey backst or like she's running to talk to him, but then like the stage door closes, you know, there were these little things like, well, I heard they're talking about weird stuff backstage.

[00:18:17] Scott: Christou. Christou. We kept being like, I want to see that spell. And then I looked it up and I was like, underwhelming. Uh. Lily's name was Ingrid. Okay, so Ingrid Elli as Lily, their survivor of a mass suicide, what were they called? The ap, the appendixes. . . The fuck. The appendixes. I forget what they were called.

[00:19:03] Scott: Georgina Haig is Madeline, Jack's deceased wife. Josh Wong Tart as Leo Fisk, the producer of Night Owls. Steve Mouzakis as Xander Diabo, clearly modeled after Anton LaVey. Super Anton LaVey. Um, such a dork. Michael Ironside was the narrator? Yeah. What? I always like to plant something in Frank's script that is going to throw him off, and I was like, I don't even need to this time.

[00:19:59] Scott: I think we should do like the worst of Arnold Schwarzenegger series we do like end of days and I've only seen it once I bet I've seen that one twice, maybe three. I feel like that was the HBO Cinemax days. Um, wow. Michael Irons side. That's awesome. Uh, the film premiered at South by Southwest in 2023 before being acquired for distribution by IFC and shutter.

[00:20:49] Scott: No shoulder. That was a Kevin Hart joke. He had to loop it through. Ooh, yeah. Creative though. Hold a whole, but he was like, he had to like, yeah, it wasn't quite, didn't look as cool as he thought it was. Hey man, without a guitar, I was fucking limited. You know what I mean? And I walked around the whole like party at our house.

[00:21:28] Scott: Frank in beans! Frank in beans! Frank in beans.

[00:21:52] Scott: That's amazing. So no, I loved how the beginning of this started like a documentary documentary and the personal history of Jack. Was what made this movie so fucking good. And I, I've had, I had a couple of people tell me that they didn't like the acting in this movie before I saw it. Bullshit. I loved, I loved his performance.

[00:22:44] Scott: Oh, the continuity was great. And just every, the wardrobe hairstyle, uh, the, the grainy picture, it was a quality grainy picture. You see a lot now where it's supposed to be like a nineties video camera. You're like. No, that's like the worst effect I've ever seen. This, what was strange about that was it still was very high def.

[00:23:22] Scott: That's one. I couldn't help but think about Larry Sanders while I was watching it. I feel like. He would have enjoyed this movie. Well, our boy from matrix man, Hague. Yeah, that was weird. Like I saw him inside that guy. It's just one of those faces and offhand, I couldn't remember what else he'd been in. So I did scroll through and yeah, he's, he's been in some stuff, but the matrix is like the one like that's, and what was his name?

[00:24:16] Scott: And I didn't know where they were gonna go with it. You know? Neither did I. Because of that first one, I was like, oh yeah, of course, they've gotta have, like, a flop, you know? But no. Not a flop at all. He just really did have to get warmed up like a 70s Chevy. And then Hague, having him on there, that was apparently based on a, an Australian guest that was real combative with a late night host.

[00:25:01] Scott: You like magic though, don't you? I like some magicians. Do you go to magic stores if you see them? No, no, no. Are you sure? Yeah, for sure. You're not a magic store regular? No, no, no. Are you sure? And I wasn't like a pick up artist that wore like a top hat or anything that did card tricks for women. Like I do occasionally get some ass.

[00:25:46] Scott: And it wasn't, were they ever fuzzy looking? Oh yeah, yeah, they had a velvet quality to them. Very fluffy velvet. Some clothing in the 70s looks comfortable to me. But most of it looks very uncomfortable. Hot. That shit cannot breathe. Those, like, were those t shirts that were made out of, like, terrycloth? I remember certain clothes when I was real young, where you just, you were trapped.

[00:26:25] Scott: Yeah. Cheap. That's why. I mean, it would have been a lot cooler if like Chico's Bail Bonds was our sponsor, but. I also, his wife who dies of cancer in the beginning of it, I was like, that girl looks really familiar. Fringe. She was in Fringe? She's the daughter of Olivia and Peter. In the future. Oh, like when the last season, when it gets all crazy.

[00:27:18] Scott: I thought it was her at the very be and then I saw like a different angle. I was like, no, that's like nothing like her. Yeah. I was trying to make it happen, but you can't change the performers. I thought it probably wouldn't appeal to anyone but me, but I was like, I like that. I recognize these minor actors, you know, that pop up.

[00:28:00] Scott: Damn, you remember different parts of movies than I do sometimes. That shit fucked me up, man. Like, that scene. Fuckin Jesus Christ. Fuckin Jesus Christ. Uh, see, I look at O'Leland and I remember very bad things. That's my first one. Yeah. I think of that too. But, I don't know, that tiny part in 7 really stuck in my head.

[00:28:40] Scott: And those movies that make me feel dirty. It's a thing that I have because I'm so clean about shit. That's one of those funky ass movies. Seven is fucking nasty. It's Fincher's finest work, if you ask me, though. It'll hold up for a very long time. Yeah, and it's one that like, it's fine, it's Kevin Spacey.

[00:29:09] Scott: The doctor was pretty hot. Yeah, I like that, you know, me and that like, Late 70s early 80s hair. Yeah, she was rocking it too, man. She was rocking the style. Yeah, and uh, her character like yeah You knew they were banging that big Jo Beth hair. Yeah, I got the waves She got the waves I Love that the audience had Halloween costumes on dude skeleton guy.

[00:29:51] Scott: Well, in Old Bonesy, he had that, uh Michael Myers type, uh, at, you know, energy, you know, you, you look, you're like, why is he sitting like that? With, he's so erect. Yeah. Yeah. And even his clapping was kind of just like arms, you know, torso stayed still. There was almost something about studio audiences in this context where like, they're all extras, so none of them seem like they're hanging out together.

[00:30:57] Scott: They weren't there together. Yeah. Um, however, those extras did get to sit a lot, which is a plus. Yeah. It's probably a solid gig. Yeah. Getting to sit that long. That's a nice one, man. Inside with some AC winning Lily, Lily, Lily blew me the fuck away. That was, uh, yeah, you want to say you read or saw, you know, people talking about the acting in this.

[00:31:46] Scott: Even if you're not from that time period too, you're so familiar with that, especially like the time we grew up, it was still so relevant to see clips from old episodes of the tonight show and variety shows from the seventies, airing on like Nick at night. I think it's weird that now Nick at night is stuff that we watched.

[00:32:26] Scott: Patty Duke, Dobie Gillis. Hee Haw. I didn't do Hee Haw, I did like Green Acres. Hee Haw would be on like during the day. Sometimes. They would replay. Maybe I'm thinking of the Country Music Network. But still like variety shows from the 60s and 70s. Like were airing on TV when we were a kid. On cable. Or do you remember TNN?

[00:33:11] Scott: Gak was legit! I fucking love that shit. Toys R Us. Floam, too. I like that. Hey, I bought my Gak from Toys R Us. Boom! Bitch, when you used to have to take a little card that had a barcode on it to a caged counter to buy your video games. I like the way that smelled. Oh yeah! Oh man! Like, did the sleeve have any cards left?

[00:34:00] Scott: Yeah, especially when they played it back later and she saw it for her to, like, freak out or something like that, but it was, like, kind of a But then she knows, like, at the same time, like, Hey, yeah, I'm having fun. Well, uh Ha ha ha! I like the dead wife's voice in there. Cause you knew it was that you were like that.

[00:34:46] Scott: Whatever. Oh, yeah. Because he would also do the uh, Publishers Clearing House shit, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hey, is that still a thing? I don't know. Is there still mail? Kind of. People still send you bills that you have to pay through the mail only. That's how they get you, because you don't check it. I like that her name was, uh, Dr.

[00:35:29] Scott: The college professor lady. Yeah. Yeah. With the guy who rips his face off.

[00:35:47] Scott: Going to the light.

[00:35:52] Scott: Uh, Oh, I can't even do her squeaky ass voice. We didn't even mention it, but like, when fucking Carol Ann Chris Du dies in the beginning too and then they don't tell the skeptic guy and he's still like on his fucking tangent Yeah, I was yeah. Hey, man, the dude never let up never fucking let up He was pissing me off but I like saw that like how important he was to this movie and the tension that was happening and The hypnotism part was crazy.

[00:36:44] Scott: But then how about the, uh, the climax in this one, man? It was fucking nuts. That was And it's the only time in the movie, and I appreciated that they did it, where they stopped being a found footage movie, and it was just a movie for a second. Because you saw everything from the character's point of view at that point, like his hallucinations and stuff, like, that wasn't necessarily what you saw on TV.

[00:37:30] Scott: Genre movie, but we're going to like just be a movie for a second for the sake of the movie Yeah, it didn't go well for Gus. No, it didn't go well for anyone

[00:38:06] Scott: You know, they got a shout out in this. Their names were mentioned. That's around that time. When they were committing fraud all over the world. Uh, the Amityville house. When he, before he entered the Amityville house, good little shout out the little things, the sprinkles, it was a column, the sprinkles in here, there were crumbs.

[00:38:47] Scott: There was so much to like about this movie. There was nothing, there was nothing that I didn't like. There were some like bits of corniness. That I enjoyed, but I could see it being like someone being like, well, that took away from the movie for me. I like the silliness a little bit. It's like death metal, you know, it's supposed to be kind of funny if you're taking it too seriously, then what the fuck, man.

[00:39:31] Scott: And then by the end of it, like, I was like, Yeah. Oh, you got me. But Late Night with the Devil was so great. It was great. It was great. After my found footage February, um, it's the, it's the level of quality. That's some good quality. And I feel like this one did reach people, you know what I mean? That just the number of people that have seen this compared to more than half the stuff I've watched in that genre.

[00:40:19] Scott: It's a BBC made for TV movie called Ghostwatch. And it came out in 1992. It is like the grandfather of this found footage movie. And Of this one in particular? For sure. Okay, okay. For sure this one. But Way back when Blair Witch Project came out, the director of that cited that, that movie as an inspiration.

[00:41:00] Frank: Okay.

[00:41:09] Scott: In the early nineties and we had a VHS copy of it at the video store

[00:41:15] Scott: Yeah, and I watched it And it was like a weird, like almost news program, like three chair setup. It wasn't like a late night show like this, but it was like a war of the world's DNA kind of thing. Because I mean, when you think about it, like the radio war of the world is the first found footage or movie, you know, because that happened before film, but it was this like thing that.

[00:42:01] Scott: Oh man, what did he have to say? He was basically saying that, like, What you see now is Star Wars written by people who watched Star Wars. So essentially it's fan fiction, but Star Wars is like Samurai spaghetti Westerns. Meets World War II dogfight movies, like all these other things made into a sci fi movie.

[00:42:51] Scott: You know what I mean? Well, yeah. The introduction of social media, you get those like, what, dark web and, uh, unfriended, I think is one. Yeah, it's moving with the media. Yeah, there's just, uh, oh, the, uh, the rideshare one. Uh, well, wait, is that, mm, let's not. Yeah, Spree. Spree. Spree, for sure, is a, it's the same kind of thing.

[00:43:30] Scott: Like, you know, you could make a Twitch horror movie. Or some gamer. There was a gaming one years ago that I missed. It was like a, uh, like a game. Yeah, they find a game. Like they're live streaming. I, or yeah, it's like multiplayer or there's like a chat lobby or something. I just read something about it.

[00:44:03] Scott: God damn it. Something for me. Yeah. Like, yes, I saw a lawnmower, man. I have a bunch of, uh, Like foreign horror movies on my Netflix queue right now And I think I need to go back and I need to get into it but I'm really gonna enjoy picking Shudder apart this month and The next couple of months. Yeah, so next time we're gonna watch a movie called glorious I showed Frank a trailer for this a long time ago, but I do that to him a lot So I'm going to have to show it to him again.

[00:45:09] Scott: Um, I remember cause we've had this trial before, right? We got the trial before we did. We had, AMC weeds. Cause I think we got it specifically to watch Duel. That sounds, I think that's it. I think that was what it was. We were on the Riley Stearns train. And then we'll find something weird. So that's part of your mission for the next two week period.

[00:45:49] Scott: Yeah. We're going to get the herpes. We're going to keep poking it until we find something awesome. Yeah. Until it itches. Thanks everyone for joining us for the last video store clerks podcast. Be sure to leave a rating and subscribe. You can find us on Twitter at last clerks Instagram at the last video store clerks, and you can find Scott at dispatches from the pit.