The Halloween 'spooky' show has been a fixture for years and they have booked some reliable stalwarts: medium Christou (Fayssal Bazzi) and former atage magician turned skeptic/debunker Carmichael Haig (Ian Bliss). Also, new to the show parapsychologist Dr. June Ross-Mitchell (Laura Gordon) and her ward Lilly (Ingrid Torelli) the traumatised survivor of a cult and purportedly possessed by a demon.
No good will come of this.
There's been a lot of very pedestrian horror about recently.
This is not.
Part found footage documentary (with narration by Michael Ironside), part perfect recreation of 70s period naffness, part fevered dream this is outstanding.
You know there's going to be a section where they attempt to talk to the demon.
You know it will go badly.
What makes it such fun is EVERYBODY leans in 100% to the conceit. It plays out exactly like you can imagine a rubbish 70s Halloween talk show would, with two high camp guests on before we get to the main attraction. It only works because they are part of the show as are the straight man sidekick, house band and sundry audience members. As much as it's Dastmalchian's show it needs the whole team to sell it.
Great entertainment and not reliant on rubbish jump scares, not even that scary at all just inventively reviving the Satanic Panic in glorious NTSC 9/10.