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(Credits: Far Out \/ Braden Moran)<\/p>\n
Thu 20 November 2025 20:45, UK <\/p>\n
One of the good things about the horror<\/a> specialists Shudder, and there are many because if you like very spooky movies it\u2019s pretty much where you find the best ones, is that now and again it throws up some fantastic word of mouth scarefests that you might have totally missed otherwise, and one of those is without doubt Late Night With the Devil starring David Dastmalchian. <\/p>\n The 2023 horror is a fantastic mash-up<\/a> of different genres; a little found footage, some documentary, some outright gore and the basis of a talk show that goes pretty disastrously wrong. Dastmalchian is the charismatic host battling bravely to stop his guests becoming demonically possessed while continuing to hold the show together in the movie set in the 1970s. <\/p>\n It was Dastmalchian\u2019s most visible lead role to date although he has been appearing in major movies as far back as Nolan\u2019s classic Batman film The Dark Knight as the Joker\u2019s henchman, and he has also appeared in three of Denis Villeneuve\u2019s finest movies, Blade Runner 2049, Dune and the gripping thriller Prisoners from 2012, for which he received considerable acclaim for his performance as the creepy kidnapper Bob Taylor. <\/p>\n Dastmalchian has also put in considerable work where superhero franchises are concerned, not just with Batman but also in Marvel\u2019s Ant Man, The Flash and Suicide Squad. But it seems that the darker side of movies is where his real passion lies and he has several new horror projects in the works, including Mads Mikkelsen\u2019s Dust Bunny<\/a> and a newly announced sci-fi horror movie called The Cure.\u00a0<\/p>\n No doubt some of that passion stems from a movie that Dastmalchian told The Guardian scarred him for life, saying: \u201cIt was called Dark Night of the Scarecrow. And it was a film about a man who rescues a little girl from a dog attack, but the town blames him for the attack and they don\u2019t realise that he was actually saving her. They chase him out into a farm and he hides, dressed up like a scarecrow. They stab him with a pitchfork, they shoot up, and they cover up their crime.\u201d<\/p>\n Adding, \u201cThen, slowly this scarecrow starts showing up in the middle of the night, getting them. It totally messed me up at age seven.\u201d<\/p>\n The 1981 movie is indeed pretty horrible; for one thing scarecrows are absolutely terrifying regardless, for another it\u2019s set in the deep South of the United States which is scary enough a place as it is, and for another it has little kids in it, and little kids in horror movies is never a fun time. <\/p>\n The film is made more effective as, rather like Late Night With the Devil it doesn\u2019t really have any household names (although Marlon Brando\u2019s sister is in it) and it was shot on a low budget using real locations. Some critics have gone on to call it one of the best \u2018made for TV\u2019 movies of all time, and it has even influenced the likes of Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dastmalchian\u2019s turn as a demonic TV host meanwhile has definitely kicked up his visibility and casting chances; he worked again with Nolan on the multi-Oscar winning Oppenheimer and has been cast as \u2018M Bison\u2019 in the upcoming Street Fighter film due to release next year. He\u2019ll also be in the new Rhea Seehorn<\/a> and Jamie Lee-Curtis horror movie Sender.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Braden Moran) Thu 20 November 2025 20:45, UK One of the good things about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17349,2826,96,12663,2839,15375,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-274958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-batman","9":"tag-christopher-nolan","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-horror","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-shudder","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}