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Satanic Panic | 1970s
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
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A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Features Cinema | 2023 | Matthew
Best Screenplay | 2023 | Colin
Best Motion Picture | 2023 | Colin
Box Office Collection 3,111,179 USD
The Carmichael character is very clearly based (including physically) on the real-life James Randi. Randi was a talented magician who became a famous psychic debunker and he started an institute that offered a large reward to anyone that could reproduce their supposed paranormal powers in controlled conditions. Over decades, nobody was able to win the money.
Actor David Dastmalchian was cast in the lead role and film's central character Jack Delroy after the film's directors read an article by him about regional horror TV hosts, which he had written for 'Fangoria' magazine. Co-director Colin Cairnes said in an interview with the film's two directors published in this magazine: ''Well, I mean other than sure just recognizing his awesome work and all the films he's been in. But then I opened up 'Fango' one day and read an article by David on regional horror hosts. And reading that, and knowing his work, I just thought, 'this is going to be a really good fit.' Obviously, our hero Jack is a TV host, so it felt like there would be some affinity there.''
In a 2024 interview with The Moveable Fest, Colin Cairnes explained the reason the film is set in 1977: "The film had to happen on a Monday night for Sweeps Week, so the stakes are high and this is the beginning of the week that's gonna make or break Jack Delroy's career, right? And it just so happened that 1977 was the only year in the '70s where Halloween fell on a Monday night, so we thought ''77, that's pretty much, you're right in the thick of it.' So that worked for us."
This horror movie's filmmakers ''The Cairnes Brothers'' - Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes - have said of this picture in an official statement: "In the '70s and '80s there was something slightly dangerous about late-night TV. Talk shows in particular were a window into some strange adult world. We thought combining that charged, live-to-air atmosphere with the supernatural could make for a uniquely frightening film experience."
The amount of time that the opening black and white sequence runs for is about eight minutes. It was inspired by the 1980s shockumentary documentary The Killing of America (1981). The later sequences in B&W in the movie are the on-set and off-air interludes during commercial breaks.
