Firstly, seems it would be more caricatured than anything. But actually it is a movie that covers many subjects. From skepticism to believe in something spiritual and mainly: how far one group with the power of mass communication can go for a larger audience?!
In 1977, television had only half century and who controled it already realized the way people would stood in front of it. The celebration about the audience at the phone "angry, confused" after someone vomited a black liquid and got out in an ambulance is the first example. After they knew he was dead, the producer's phrases like "dial it up and get on with your job", "just think that this is the biggest tv event since moon landing, who was I to disagree?" also because this is controversy and "after tonight, every fortune 500 will be lining up to be part".
I can't say it depicts a talk show from the 70's well because I didn't watched any, but the hair, the clothes, the image quality, the screens for the interstitials - the one mixing 'owl' with 'halloween' is very crative - are all very well depicted/good.
The cast is precisely selected. The girl staring at the camera is awesome. I didn't like the visual effects when her head opened for the demon but as the scene goes, the way it does the killing spree was ruthless, including the visual effects. The skeptical asked forgiveness only to avoid death and when offered money, no matter how much, it meant nothing.
And the host which had said "this could become a regular spot" got the fame but was the most used by the bosses. The metaphor of them with the fantasies from The Grove praising for maybe 50 share is to show what was the price. And he was also paying for a possible murder among the "tall trees", as the demon explicitly yelled that was with him. When in an ilusion he kills the wife to cease her pain, the demon was in his mind to let him know what happened and make him kill the girl. It was the last charge and now he would pay in the human law because lights were on so for the movie narrative, it was aired live for all America.
As a communication researcher, I can tell this movie is very good because it is not the technology itself, but depending how the few groups which own this tool of mass control use it, television can be from the 'devil'.
In 1977, television had only half century and who controled it already realized the way people would stood in front of it. The celebration about the audience at the phone "angry, confused" after someone vomited a black liquid and got out in an ambulance is the first example. After they knew he was dead, the producer's phrases like "dial it up and get on with your job", "just think that this is the biggest tv event since moon landing, who was I to disagree?" also because this is controversy and "after tonight, every fortune 500 will be lining up to be part".
I can't say it depicts a talk show from the 70's well because I didn't watched any, but the hair, the clothes, the image quality, the screens for the interstitials - the one mixing 'owl' with 'halloween' is very crative - are all very well depicted/good.
The cast is precisely selected. The girl staring at the camera is awesome. I didn't like the visual effects when her head opened for the demon but as the scene goes, the way it does the killing spree was ruthless, including the visual effects. The skeptical asked forgiveness only to avoid death and when offered money, no matter how much, it meant nothing.
And the host which had said "this could become a regular spot" got the fame but was the most used by the bosses. The metaphor of them with the fantasies from The Grove praising for maybe 50 share is to show what was the price. And he was also paying for a possible murder among the "tall trees", as the demon explicitly yelled that was with him. When in an ilusion he kills the wife to cease her pain, the demon was in his mind to let him know what happened and make him kill the girl. It was the last charge and now he would pay in the human law because lights were on so for the movie narrative, it was aired live for all America.
As a communication researcher, I can tell this movie is very good because it is not the technology itself, but depending how the few groups which own this tool of mass control use it, television can be from the 'devil'.
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