AGC International, the international sales and distribution arm of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, will launch sales on the supernatural thriller “Late Night With the Devil” at the American Film Market in Santa Monica on Halloween. The film, a nightmarishly entertaining ode to the talk shows and horror movies of the 1970s, won the best screenplay prize at Sitges Film Festival.
“Late Night With the Devil” is written, directed and edited by Australian genre mavericks Cameron and Colin Cairnes (“100 Bloody Acres,” “Scare Campaign”). The brothers have crafted an original narrative that unfolds nearly in real time, as the 1977 live broadcast of a late-night talk show unexpectedly transforms from amusing to bizarre to deliciously sinister, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
The film stars David Dastmalchian (“The Suicide Squad,” “Oppenheimer”) as talk-show host Jack Delroy, and is produced by Derek Dauchy, Mat Govoni, Steven Schneider, Roy Lee, Adam White and John Molloy for Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Spooky Pictures and Future Pictures. Umbrella Maslow Ahi are distributing the film in Australia and New Zealand.
The film premiered at SXSW to audience and critical acclaim, with horror legend Stephen King tweeting: “It’s absolutely brilliant. I couldn’t take my eyes off it.” It has since been a fan favorite at Fantasia Festival in Montreal, Sydney Film Festival, BIFAN in Korea, Sitges, London Film Festival and Toronto After Dark among others.
Ford said: “’Late Night With the Devil’ is one of the freshest, most innovative lower budget scary movies I and the team have seen in many years and it’s been exhilarating to watch the film rapidly gather critical and audience momentum at major festivals over the past few months. We’re confident that distributors around the world are going to gobble this one up after its Halloween market screening.”
“Late Night With the Devil” marks another high-profile theatrical partnership for AGC, Image Nation Abu Dhabi, and Lee and Schneider’s Spooky Pictures following the 2022 collaboration on Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher.” AGC and Lee also enjoyed a significant Toronto success with Anna Kendrick’s serial killer thriller “Woman of the Hour,” which made one of the biggest U.S. sales of the year to Netflix.
Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ debut feature, “100 Bloody Acres” won the Midnight X-treme award at Sitges Film Festival and was hailed by Rogerebert as “the best low budget horror-comedy since ‘Shaun of the Dead.'” Their follow-up, “Scare Campaign” (2016), was a gruesomely inventive take on the slasher movie.
