🎬 Late Night with the Devil (2024)

📹 The Setup

A late-night talk show host hits his breaking point during Halloween sweeps in the 1970s—and decides to go full spectacle. Paranormal guests. Hypnotists. Psychic children. A live studio audience. And one infamous book called Talking With the Devil. It’s all supposed to boost ratings. Until it turns into something a little too real.

🎥 The film plays out like a behind-the-scenes broadcast, blending on-air drama with backstage descent. A slow burn where the lines between suggestion, possession, and madness start to blur.

🎥 The Format

A “found footage” horror setup staged like a retro talk show, complete with broadcast transitions, commercial bumpers, and live-audience chaos. Everything starts tongue-in-cheek—and ends with a demon on stage.

✅ 70s live TV setting

✅ Studio crew walkouts

✅ A hypnotist with too much power

✅ Ratings-obsessed host spiraling

✅ What Makes It Work

• Incredible set design: The production nails the 70s aesthetic. From the studio layout to the graphics, every visual detail adds to the eerie realism.

• Clever broadcast framing: Black-and-white shots signal backstage moments, while vivid color captures live TV. It helps guide the viewer through what’s real—or at least what’s being aired.

• • Strong central concept: The idea of desperation pushing someone too far on live TV is compelling. You want to buy into the stakes.

  
  

  ⚠️ What Doesn’t Land

  • Storyline feels muddy: Too many angles (grief, demons, cults, ratings, hypnosis, ghosts) without any clear message.

  • Performance tone is confusing: Acting veers between campy and deadpan with little emotional core to hold onto.

  • No emotional payoff: For all the buildup, the climax and ending feel confusing rather than cathartic.

• • Too many ideas, not enough execution: Some scenes (like the ghost wife, worm hallucination, or cult hints) felt like art house distractions rather than plot progression.

  
  

  💸 Should It Have a Bigger Budget?

  No, the budget worked for what it was. The visuals and production design were strong. It just needed a tighter script and clearer emotional arc—not more money.

  
  

  🎯 The Verdict

  Cade: 3.0
  Kit: 3.0
  “We liked the set. That’s about it.”

  If you’re big into 70s aesthetics, you might appreciate the vibe. If you’re looking for horror with substance—or even just coherence—this probably isn’t it. One of those “the trailer was better” situations.

  
  

  📺 Where to Watch

  Streaming on Shudder and select platforms. Not a Shudder original, but part of their catalog.

  
  

  🍿 Pair This Movie With...

  • Snack: Half a granola bar (because you won’t be hungry after Act 2)

  • Drink: A lukewarm coffee from a Styrofoam cup

• • Activity: Reading Reddit threads about movies with “great concepts, bad delivery”

  
  

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📹 The Setup

It’s been thirteen years since the last Final Destination film—and now, death is back on the big screen. We caught Bloodlines at our local Cineplex VIP theater in Calgary (shoutout to the Uni District team, who always treat us well). Expectations were high, the theater was packed, and yes… we made sure not to drive behind any logging trucks. Ever. Again.

🎥 The sixth installment in the franchise manages to be both a tribute and a reboot, bringing back the dread, the algorithmic unraveling of fate, and the kind of creative kill sequences that made this series iconic in the first place.

🎥 The Format

This one follows the franchise blueprint: a narrow escape from death kicks off a domino effect, as those who “should’ve died” start getting picked off one by one. Only this time, the curse is generational—and the original event dates back to the 1950s.

✅ Premonition

✅ Family Trauma

✅ Isolated Grandma in the Woods

✅ Death’s Algorithm Returns

✅ What Makes It Work

• ​Standalone but still loyal: Even if you’ve never seen a Final Destination movie, this works on its own. If you have, the callbacks are satisfying but never overdone.
• ​Genuinely good story: The multi-generational thread, journal of death patterns, and dream sequences added actual emotional depth to the formula.
• ​Inventive kills: We’re talking “never-seen-that-before” territory. Suspenseful setups, sharp timing, and clever payoffs. Cade nerded out trying to figure out how they pulled them off.
• ​Excellent tone balance: There’s comedy, dread, and chaos in all the right doses. You feel the audience waiting for that next death to drop.

⚠️ What Doesn’t Land

Honestly, not much. If you hate jump scares or the build tension, release with blood formula, this isn’t going to convert you. But for genre fans, it’s a tight, respectful return to form.

💸 Should It Have a Bigger Budget?

Honestly, it looked great as is. This didn’t scream needs a Marvel budget. The effects, especially the practical ones, were sharp. That said, if there is a seventh installment, we’d love to see them really go for it in terms of set pieces and broader scope.

🎯 The Verdict

Cade: 7.5Kit: 7.5“A complete, entertaining return. We’d watch another.”

This was smart horror that didn’t take itself too seriously but didn’t get lazy either. A film with strong genre roots that somehow still found new tricks to pull out of the bag. Definitely recommend seeing this in theaters—especially with an audience. The shared gasps and laughs were part of the fun.

📺 Where to Watch

In theaters now (VIP if you’re lucky enough to have one). Not yet available on streaming.

🍿 Pair This Movie With...

• ​Snack: Sour Cherry Blasters (they look like blood clots—perfect)
• ​Drink: A crisp fountain Coke with too much ice
• ​Activity: Scrolling Reddit threads about the worst Final Destination kills (while safely on your couch, nowhere near sharp objects)

We’re real people. Doing real reviews. And this time… we sat nowhere near glass, scaffolding, or rollercoasters. Just in case.👋 Until next time, stay alive out there.

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To close out CUFF 2025, we’re wrapping three very different films that somehow all deserve their own weird little spotlight.

A genre-defying documentary, a cult-ready horror comedy, and a ghost story about podcasting clout walked into a film festival… and we sat through all three.

🎤 Luna: The LUNA Vachon Story – Raw, Real & Rock 'n Roll

An unexpectedly emotional documentary on legendary female wrestler Luna Vachon — a true trailblazer in a male-dominated arena.

📼 Archival interviews, raw home video, and deeply personal storytelling💄 Luna’s punk-metal chaos meets real-life trauma and triumph🎤 From pro wrestling highs to battles with addiction, the film doesn’t flinch… but it doesn’t drown in darkness either.

🧠 Thoughtful and surprisingly uplifting. A time capsule and a tribute.

📊 Our Scores: Cade – 7, Kit – 7
📚 Worth watching even if you’re not a wrestling fan. This is about legacy.

🦇 Vampire Zombies... From Space! – Black-and-White B-Movie Brilliance

Midnight movie lovers, rejoice. This is camp done right.

🕺🏽 1950s sci-fi parody with pitchforks, pink bats, and perfectly stupid deaths
🧛‍♂️ Alien vampires crash in a tobacco town… and cigarettes save the day
👻 A cult classic in the making, best watched with a crowd that yells back

💬 From “From Space!” chants to dangling bat puppets — this is Halloween party material.

📊 Our Scores: Cade – 7, Kit – 7
🎉 Bonus points for the ending twist and the abandoned group suicide subplot.

👻 The Last Podcast – Haunted Clout, Podcast Regret, & Shower Ghosts

One man, one mic, one ghost. All for the views.

🎙️ A skeptical podcaster goes viral when a guest shoots himself live on air
🫥 Ghosts with stipulations, accidental murders, rival podcasters, and moral implosions
🧼 Male shower scenes, ET nods, and tech-based horror commentary

💔 It’s funny… until it tries to be deep. Female characters deserved more.

📊 Our Scores: Cade – 6.5, Kit – 5.5
🎧 Good enough to stream. Not strong enough to revisit.

🍿 Cade & Kit Pairing Picks (CUFF Pt. 3 Edition):

• Drink: Pre-workout for Luna, spiked soda for Vampire Zombies, and something lukewarm and caffeinated for The Last Podcast

• Snack: Pop Rocks (because you need chaos)

• Activity: Make a playlist that goes from metal scream intros to 1950s sci-fi jingles

  
  

💬 CUFF brought us some of the weirdest, smartest, and most sincere indie films we've seen this year. We laughed, we squirmed, we maybe blushed during Sugar Rot. But most importantly — we watched.

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We’re back with Part 2 of our Calgary Underground Film Festival recap — and this one’s all about unexpected pairings. We watched a double-feature that had everything from underwater creatures to exhibitionist neighbors… and we’re still processing.

Here’s what happened when we watched A Mother’s Embrace and Two Women back to back — because nothing says “emotional range” like a tentacle demon followed by a French comedy about self-discovery and awkward flirting.

🐙 A Mother’s Embrace – Suspenseful, Alien & Unnerving

A Spanish-language creature feature that actually had us on the edge of our seats. From the eerie nursing home setting to the terrifying underwater sequences, this one felt like The Descent meets Guillermo del Toro — if Guillermo was sadder and more flooded.

💧 Woman with trauma returns to the source of her past🏚️ Nursing home + storm + creepy staff = instant tension🦑 Cult behavior, missing responders, and one truly wild tentacled being

🧠 It doesn’t explain everything — but it doesn’t need to. It’s high-suspense horror that earns its scares without cheap tricks.

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 8.5, Cade – 9
🔁 Rewatch Status: HIGH. We might’ve missed something. Or a lot.

🇫🇷 Two Women – Funny, French, and Deeply Human

A slice-of-life comedy that’s somehow about postpartum recovery, aging, bisexuality, meds, marriage, divorce, exhibitionism, and cooperative garden planning. It’s messy, honest, and weirdly sweet.

🏠 Two neighbors form a friendship that turns into a liberation spiral📦 From baby monitors to rat control to hired flings — it’s chaos💬 Delivered with humor, charm, and just enough absurdity to make you laugh out loud

Think: “Eat Pray Love” but in a Montreal apartment building with a crow screaming through the wall. And somehow it all works.

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 7, Cade – 7
🍷 Watch With: Your friends, your siblings, or even your mom (but maybe not your boss)

🍿 Cade & Kit Pairing Picks (CUFF Pt. 2 Edition):

• Drink: Electrolytes (after the flood) + French red wine (after the neighbor seduction)

• Snack: Something crunchy to stress-eat while trying to decipher the cult ritual

• Activity: Whisper-laughing “what is happening” during A Mother’s Embrace, then quoting Two Women on the ride home

  
  

💬 Have you ever seen two more opposite movies in one night? Which would you rather survive: a psychic sea creature ceremony, or an awkward apartment affair? Tell us.

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Welcome to our special edition episode recapping the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) — the hometown festival where Cade & Kit first became… well, Cade & Kit.

From April 17–27, we saw a whirlwind of premieres, shorts, genre surprises, and more bodily fluids than we were prepared for. We interviewed filmmakers, brought a crowd, and left with our minds full and stomachs slightly unsettled.

Here’s our full recap — five films, five moods, and one very haunted rug.

🎞️ SHORT #1: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Campy, cute, and covered in blood. This Denver-made short follows a couple who literally rip themselves apart to show how much they love each other.

💘 Candy-colored gore meets relationship boundaries🩸 Eyeballs, limbs, and a perfectly cheesy closing shot🎭 Fun premiere with a sweet team behind it

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 5, Cade – 5

🍦 FEATURE #1: Sugar Rot

Where do we begin. Visually sweet, narratively sour, and uncomfortably explicit, this body horror metaphor explores a young woman’s descent into sugary self-destruction. Cotton candy… everywhere.

🚨 Not a first-date movie🎡 Ambitious concept, strong lead actress🎧 But the audio? Wildly distracting

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 1.5, Cade – 2

🧼 SHORT #2: The Rug

A senior finds a cursed rug that eats anything swept underneath. Yes, it’s amazing. And yes, we want this to become a feature film with knitting club elders and blood-thirsty carpeting.

🎬 High production value and sharp writing🎭 A cast of older actors that carried the short🚪 Clever setup, great payoff

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 4.5, Cade – 6

🔥 FEATURE #2: Portal to Hell

It starts strong — great color, great concept (a literal portal to hell inside a laundromat). But the middle? Sleepy. And the end? Beautiful again. Mostly.

🌀 Gorgeous red/blue/yellow neon visuals👹 Campy setup, slow execution🙃 Needed to lean more into the absurd

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 4.5, Cade – 5

🕊️ FEATURE #3: Shadow of God

Calgary-made, locally cast, and bold enough to drop an exorcism film on Easter Monday. This one mixed religious horror with cult mythology and unexpected VFX (for better or worse).

💥 Strong opening with chilling visuals and lore👁️ Highlights: the caffeine-gel cross transition, the double-nailing exorcism ritual🌌 Lowlights: end-of-days green screen energy that pulled us all the way out

📊 Our Scores: Kit – 4.5, Cade – 6.5

🍿 Cade & Kit Pairing Picks (CUFF Edition):

• Drink: Whatever 88 Brewing had on tap (plus a strong espresso for Portal to Hell)

• Snack: Popcorn, vegan chocolate, and deep regret about that one ice cream scene

• Activity: Whispering “what is happening” every 10 minutes in the dark with your friends beside you

  
  

💬 Did you go to CUFF this year? What’d you love? What traumatized you? What do you wish you saw? Let us know — or join us next year. There’s always a seat saved for you.

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