Los Angeles based screenwriter, homosexual, and co-host of Bloodhaus, an arthouse horror podcast.

This felt pretty commercial for a Robert Eggers movie. I saw it in a packed smalltown theater full of normies on Christmas and people seemed really into it. This seemed like the least horny adaptation of this story I've seen, but in a way I liked. Here Nosferatu is a stand in for a depressive's self-destruction. A literal embodiment of a sad woman's death wish. Anyone who utters the phrase "style over substance" should have a finger broken.
I wish I liked this more because I was obsessed with the concept and the trailer.
Its largest problem is that it doesn't deliver on its promise, which is to be a found footage film where we're watching a lost tape of a 70s late-night show. But when the show cuts to commercials, we hop into cinema verite. In trying to be both a found footage film and a traditional narrative film at once, Late Night with the Devil succeeds…