We have the Amazing Christou, a psychic medium here to promote his latest tour! We have Carmichael Haig, famous great magician turned skeptic and debunker of the claims of the paranormal!
We have Dr June Ross-Mitchell, here to promote her latest book about a Satanic cult, alongside its subject, the amazing Lilly! You'll have all of your favourite banter, musical interludes and charming repartee between Jack, his sidekick Gus, and all of their guests, so tune in! Tonight's show promises to be a magical event!
First, it's wonderful to have the perpetually hangdog, underrated David Dastmalchian in a leading role, particularly something he seems born to play. He's great. Ian Bliss as the haughty, theatrical, dickish skeptic Carmichael the Conjurer is also fantastic and threatens to steal the show. The film has fun with its 70s setting, and cutting to "Commercial Breaks", and it all gets a few laughs. The scares are competently done and there are some wonderful, fittingly 70s looking gore and puppetry effects in the 3rd act. It stumbles a bit through the 3rd act but sticks the landing, and its made fairly well enough that the usual checklist of things don't really bother me, but that's just personal: I've seen way too many possession movies and Satanism films.
Plus Michael Ironside is apparently the narrator here!
However, all of this praise must be cast aside, and I do not do this lightly, because the filmmakers used plagiarism software ("AI" to common parlance) to create its title cards. Such things are, and I cannot stress this enough, unacfuckingceptable in any way, shape or form: non consensually stealing the art of others to churn out product, damning and ignoring and surpassing the very creatives you claim to be, that shit cannot be allowed to stand. Fuck these guys.
It's a shame really.
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