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Late Night With The Devil: Was The Movie Inspired By Real Life Incident? Find Out
Although the events of Late Night with the Devil are completely fictional, it draws inspiration from a real-life secret society and its controversial rituals.
Late Night With The Devil has garnered rave reviews and has achieved record-setting streaming numbers currently. The story of the film is about a late-night talk show that has gone terribly wrong from the 1970s, which means it really does promise an engrossing, harrowing, and creepy experience. Its clever staging and well-crafted story make it a watch for horror enthusiasts.
The movie features David Dastmalchian as the host of the fictional show known as Night Owls. This film uncovers that its character, Jack Delroy, was a part of this secret society and had achieved success through dealing in the occult. The "Culte Du Grove" in this film has real-life roots in a deeply dark history of private organizations with bizarre rituals and a number of controversies. With rave reviews for the film-receiving even critical acclaim from the likes of Stephen King-that goes to say this odd world it took from is well worth exploring.
The group was involved in strange rituals
Former employees and moles have come forward to detail the activities at Bohemian Grove. Writer Phillip Weiss orchestrated an infiltration with the aid of members from anti-Grove Bohemian Grove Action Network. Weiss painted the Grove as a week of drinking and eating by wealthy men, who, behind closed doors discuss deals that determine the fate of nations. Last Night's segment about the artsy gathering took some flak online for the using AI-generated stills of the event. The Grove is the location where rich and powerful men can affect the fate of entire nations.
The Grove is an incubator of machismo, sexism, and creepiness. These include rites with paintings of naked women and symbols of secrecy often using the motto "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here". The Grove centerpiece is a 40-foot owl statue set by a lake serving as the focal point for the most notorious and misleading ritual, the "Cremation of Care." This imagery appears at the start and conclusion of Late Night with the Devil.
This is the ritual that has made Grove infamous, taken together with the incredibly powerful men participating in it. And rightly so: recordings of this thing have leaked, and yes, Bohemian Grove's Cremation of Care does indeed have a decidedly occult and creepy feel to it. Weiss reports, "The men are wearing bright-colored hooded robes; it was silent as a column of hooded figures carrying torches emerged solemnly from the woods 100 yards away, down to the water with a corpse".
The Culte Du Grove is a real place in California
According to CBR, the Culte Du Grove indeed is based on a real place in California. Late Night with the Devil features a mockumentary style showing the struggle of Jack Delroy to be the top Late Night host. It shows through the documentary that Jack is part of the mysterious group called The Grove, which is a "men-only club" located in California. This arcanaceous and career-defining enclave called The Grove, consisting of politicians and businessmen as members, was constituted in the 1800s. The film shows Delroy's last failure to achieve his goal.
The Grove in Late Night with the Devil is the real Bohemian Grove, home to the annual meeting of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. The club, founded in 1872, was formed by young journalists, know as "bohemians," who wanted a private place to drink and discuss the arts with other aficionados. They pooled their monies to rent a room off Sacramento Street in San Francisco and christened the club where the journalists would be full members and their artist friends would be honorary members.
In its early years, the Bohemian Club did not have a high level of capital funding. Therefore, as membership began to lean more towards businessmen who could afford to finance it more, wealthy members became a dominant force in this club. Some of the most famous artists over the years have included Bohemians, from writers to poets, painters, composers, and actors, but almost all of their fame pales in comparison to the politicians and industry titans that are part of their prestigious organization. Notable members have included Newt Gingrich, William Randolph Hearst, and Henry Kissinger.
Former U.S. Presidents that were also official members of the Bohemian Club include Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. But it is the private compound in which these men convene each year that has rendered the club infamous and provided the inspiration for Late Night with the Devil. Since a drunken party in 1878, the Bohemians have made it a point to get drunk in the redwoods every year. In 1899, the group bought a plot of land in the forests of Monte Rio, California.
A look at some controversies surrounding The Bohemian Grove
The Bohemian Grove has also been embroiled in many controversies: its policies of no women, its practice of logging redwoods. It has been sued on numerous occasions-one suit was filed in 1978 by the Californian state government, ultimately forcing the club to hire some women in 1987. Despite these challenges, the club still keeps women from coming to the Grove, despite events like Late Night never being confirmed to take place there.
In September 1942, the Manhattan Project was convened at the Grove, including Oppenheimer, Lawrence, and members of the S-1 Executive Committee, to help forge the atomic bomb: a proud moment for Bohemian Club members, but an event that appalls critics because such a world-shaking event happened at a private men's club with no oversight. The event was left out of the Oppenheimer biopic.
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