‘Late Night With the Devil’ Team Shares a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Making a Haunted ’70s Set on a Low Budget
variety.comWilliam Earl administrator Indie horror hit “Late Night With the Devil” follows the real-time Halloween episode of a fictional ’70s talk show, which quickly descends into madness.
The film’s writers and directors, Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairne, were inspired by the sense of excitement and danger from the after-hours talk shows of their youth. “Those late-night shows were very exciting for us as young boys,” Cameron Cairne says. “Staying up late to watch TV was something of a taboo, but we would, and we would see things that children probably shouldn’t see.
So we were trying to capture that vibe, as well as the danger of live TV, the unscripted nature of it.” Using a limited budget, the duo, along with their creative team, was able to create their own period-appropriate U.S.
talk show in Melbourne. Production designer Otello Stolfo immediately studied the late-night shows they hoped to emulate, down to the smallest details. “We started looking at shows like Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett and anything else that was around at that time,” he says. “We started looking at how their sets work and everything else.
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