20 Movie Reveals Nobody Noticed
12. Hail Abraxas - Late Night with the Devil
The terrific horror film Late Night with the Devil concludes with the shock reveal that late night talk show host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) made a pact with the Devil, sacrificing the soul of his wife Madeleine (Georgina Haig) in exchange for fame, in turn causing her fatal cancer diagnosis.
But Jack gets his just deserts by film's end, when demon Abraxas tricks him into stabbing cult survivor Lilly (Ingrid Torelli) to death on live television, sealing his fate.
Abraxas and the cult that worships him are introduced in the film's opening newsreel montage, though there's also a sneaky hint here that the demonic entity has the ability to influence our perception of reality.
When we see a front page clipping from The Hollywood Observer, the bottom of the page names the movie of the week as "Hail Abraxas" - a sly suggestion that things aren't quite what they seem, and that Abraxas has the potential to bend reality to his will.