“At night with the devil” at Teatro Insomnia

“At night with the devil” at Teatro Insomnia

• Insomnia Theater, Condell 1585, Valparaiso.
  
• Friday 19 (21:30), Sunday 21 (21:00), Wednesday 24 (21:00), Saturday 27 (21:30), Sunday 28 (19:30) and Wednesday 31 (15:00).
• More information here.

“De noche con el diablo” is the latest horror release from INSOMNIA Teatro Condell which, under the gaze of Australian directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes, brings together three spectacular ingredients: Halloween, a late night show with live interviews and the best music of the 70s. Rated 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, winner of best script at the Sitges Film Festival, praised at all the Festivals where it has been presented, even by Stephen King, who stated on his X account: “it’s absolutely brilliant. I couldn’t take my eyes off it. Your opinion may vary, as they say, but I urge you to see it when you can”, it is one of the unmissable releases of the season.

The idea of ​​filming this movie came about 10 years ago, after making his first low-budget film, for the same reason, it is set on a television set in 1977, precisely in that decade the United States was experiencing a great satanic psychosis due to the rise of rock and roll among youth, a context that produced films of the stature of The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976).

The film is set on Halloween night in 1977, and chaos breaks loose when host Jack Delroy interviews a parapsychologist and a young teenager who is the only survivor of a mass killing at a Satanic church. Their goal is lethal: to contact the devil live and in person, a paradox for a society that is willing to do anything for a minute of fame, and that continues to be so to this day.

For Claudio Pereira, Programmer of INSOMNIA: “De noche con el diablo, praised at the Sitges festival, co-directed by the Cameron brothers and Colin Cairnes from Australia, operates, not from a supposed novelty of the devil, but from a kind of parody of how the presence of the devil became a spectacle, taking as a reference the Talk Shows of the seventies, when they tried to terrify viewers in front of the television by the live presence of the devil.”

“Devil’s Night works perfectly for these times of skepticism, where we can see a North America that builds its own paranoia, where evil and the devil manifest themselves in the sin of young people and the advance of social conquests, filling them with monsters, sects and satanic rituals, preachers and live spiritualism. Made by lovers of cinema of the genre, with evident cinephilia, they invite us to sit down to contemplate what will be the true devil that will be present among us, where everything can get out of control.”

This premiere is accompanied by a special entitled “Damn Hollywood” that brings together great directors from Lynch to Tarantino, to analyze the mecca of cinema as a bonfire of vanities capable of destroying any dream. This special brings back to the big screen films such as “All About Eve” (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” (Robert Aldrich), “Stardust” (David Cronenberg), “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Quentin Tarantino), “Birdman” (Alejandro González Iñárritu), “Mulholland Drive” (David Lynch) and “One Cut of the Dead” (Shinichirô Ueda).