20 Horror Movies That Revealed TOO MUCH
4. Late Night with the Devil
While most movies on this list ended up showing too much at the tail-end, Late Night with the Devil did the total opposite.
The film opens with a surprisingly lengthy 10-minute documentary-style prologue detailing the life and times of beleaguered late-night talk show host Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian).
Though well produced and narrated by the brilliantly gravel-voiced Michael Ironside, the faux-doc goes into an almost exhaustive amount of detail about Delroy's past, particularly the fact that he's been a regular attendee at The Grove - an elite camp for California's wealthiest men.
When you couple that with the information about the cancer death of Jack's wife Madeleine (Georgina Haig), it gives a too-early hint that something is majorly off with Jack. And so, some viewers might even predict the eventual twist, that Jack in fact made a pact with the Devil at The Grove, trading his wife's soul for fame and success.
Jack's backstory could've been more subtly unfurled over the course of the film rather than laid out so blatantly upfront, almost as though the filmmakers were anxious that audiences wouldn't get it.