Late night host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) has been riding Johnny Carson's coattails in the ratings for years. Now, in 1977, with Night Owls on the brink of cancellation, Jack plans a desperate live Halloween episode featuring a renowned psychic (Fayssal Bazzi), a professional skeptic (Ian Bliss), and a parapsychologist (Laura Gordon) who claims to have rescued a patient (Ingrid Torelli) from a Satanic cult.
I had such a good time watching this! Dastmalchian has become one of my favorite Weird Little Guy actors and it was so good to watch him play against type as Normal and Charismatic. Plus, I am a total sucker for a good possession story.
The film stays simple; doesn't try to get too flashy or bogged down in any more exposition than is necessary to set up. Other than Dastmalchian*, the cast are professional character actors and their performances are great.
*I actually have no idea if he counts as famous yet. He's been in a bunch of really high-profile stuff but I don't know if regular people who don't watch 300 movies a year know who he is.
It's currently streaming on Shudder, which is available as part of AMC+ now? I have it as an add-on to Amazon Prime but it doesn't matter. Totally worth watching.
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