Some jobs go away an enduring, profound impression. That was true for David Dastmalchian, the star of “Late Night time with the Satan,” who discovered he wasn’t fairly able to abandon his speak present host duties after filming ended.
Now, he’s internet hosting an precise speak present however with a mordant twist: Dastmalchian conducts the interviews in Titan Casket coffins for “Grave Conversations.”
“After taking part in a chat present host in my most up-to-date movie ‘Late Night time with the Satan,’ I felt myself longing to take the interview format part of my profession one step additional… with caskets,” Dastmalchian mentioned in an announcement. “The chance to interview my buddies and colleagues offered itself with ‘Grave Conversations,’ a hilarious, heartfelt, and private exploration of among the issues that matter most in life. And loss of life.”
“Grave Conversations” was developed by Elan Gale (Titan Caskets’ artistic director). Invoice Dixon wrote the episodes, and Jacob Strunk directed them. The sequence premiered August 24 on Instagram with “The Fall of the Home of Usher” star Kate Siegel and Dastmalchian in adjoining caskets. Mike Flanagan, the horror auteur behind “Gerald’s Recreation” and “The Haunting of Hill Home,” will slide right into a casket with Dastmalchian for the episode premiering Might 1, whereas Matthew Lillard will lie in state Might 8.
Because the host, Dastmalchian is worlds away from the determined character he performed in “Late Night time with the Satan. As David Ehrlich wrote in his evaluation, “Dastmalchian’s nimble efficiency as a chat present host who desires to push the envelope with out shedding his viewers’s goodwill permits ‘Late Night time with the Satan’ to stroll the road between horror and satire with out shedding its stability till the ultimate minutes. Dorsey’s neediness is frightening sufficient that the film round him can largely survive on the power of its ambiance — on the disquiet created between the playful hazard of dwell TV and the dawning realization that Jack is in over his head.”
As a substitute, Dastmalchian asks offbeat, probing questions within the hushed voice of a priest of an completed ASMR performer. “Do you suppose George Washington knew in regards to the dinosaurs?” he asks Flanagan in Episode 2, and out of the blue, a complete new world of potentialities for speak reveals emerges. Typically it simply takes the specter of loss of life to enliven a drained style.