We never have them explicitly talk about it, but at the time of the show, that film would still be fresh in peoples’ minds. What were the movies playing in your mind as you were writing the script?Ĭameron Cairnes The Exorcist was obviously at the forefront of our minds making this film, and I feel like it’s at the forefront of our characters’ minds as well. The Exorcist, obviously, but also the likes of Rosemary’s Baby. It seems you’re referencing a lot of ’70s horror films. So combining that with our other great late-night love, which was horror movies, felt like an interesting combination to play with. Just the idea of staying up late as a kid and watching those sorts of shows always felt a bit taboo, a bit dangerous. But those late-night guys were characters we knew from movies because they’d often pop up in films, you know, as cameos in the background. All this on what’s supposed to be a glitzy variety show.Ĭolin Cairnes If memory serves, we didn’t get Johnny Carson until quite a bit later. He had the great ghost hunters the Warrens on two nights in a row investigating local hauntings in Melbourne. Any chance he would get he would invite psychics and magicians and, you know, spoon benders, those sorts of characters. Don Lane was seriously curious about the supernatural. And a lot of incidents on that show did inform the writing of Late Night With The Devil. But we had our own late-night talk show host called Don Lane who was American. We were essentially raised on that, more than we were on local content. How did two Aussie brothers become obsessed with 1970s American late-night television?Ĭameron Cairnes Well, being an Australian growing up in the ’70s and ’80s you couldn’t avoid American culture, American TV shows, and American films. In an interview with THR, the Cairnes brothers addressed the inspiration for their latest film, its timeliness and references to the 1970s. I couldn’t take my eyes off it,” the horror legend tweeted after the film’s SXSW premiere - as well as the genre-obsessed audience at fantasy festival Sitges, where Late Night With The Devil won the best screenplay honor.ĪGC International is handling world sales for the feature and will be holding a special Halloween night screening for buyers at the AFM. The Cairnes’ mash up themes of 1970s horror classics with the media satires of the era, such as Network and The King of Comedy, to create a thrill ride that won over Stephen King – “absolutely brilliant. Their follow-up, Late Night With The Devil, is framed as a found-footage film about a 1977 live broadcast of a late-night talk show where the host - the Johnny Carson also-ran Jack Delroy (played by David Dastmalchian of Suicide Squad and Oppenheimer fame) - decides to go big for a Halloween night edition during sweeps week with a guest who claims to commune with the devil.Ĭ-3PO Actor Anthony Daniels Set to Sell 'Star Wars' Memorabilia Australian siblings and directing duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes have earned a following on the cult horror circuit with their first two features: the low-budget horror comedy 100 Bloody Acres (which won the Midnight X-treme award at the 2013 Sitges Film Festival) and 2016’s Scare Campaign, a gruesome twist on the slasher genre.
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