Late Night With The Devil  (M18)

Starring David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Ingrid Torelli

Directed by Colin Cairnes & Cameron Cairnes

Imagine this.

A teenage girl possessed by the devil unleashes unholy hell in a late-night TV talk show in the US. She levitates and shoots out electrical bolts. One guy is fried crispier than KFC. A woman gets strung up by her own necklace.

Now get this.

This devilishly insane horror-parody mockumentary is co-directed by an Aussie named Colin Cairnes who, according to his bio, previously directed episodes of Phua Chu Kangand Under One Roof.

No kidding.

Man, you don't know what made him and his co-writer/director/brother Cameron Cairnes — Australia's Coen brothers of cut-rate black horror humour with 100 Bloody Acres and Scare Campaign — nuttier?

Was it American TV culture, living here in Singapore or their childhood trauma as couch potatoes in Down Under?

Because this twisted combo of tube-and-terror infiltration apparently came from the bros lapping up late night talk shows in Australia styled after Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, plus 1970s horror flicks. Somehow, they concluded that live TV going right into living rooms at the witching hour is actually very sinister. FYI, I totally agree. Nothing can be more insidiously scary.