![]() The studio audience screams for her when she emerges. ![]() Ripper, demands more violence and greater risks to satiate his viewers.ĭave has a secret weapon against the undead: when he finds a pentacle, he can unleash the demonic spirit inside him and transform into the magic-wielding succubus Deva (an anagram of Dave). camera crew follows Dave behind the gates, up the hills, and into the claustrophobic halls of the Shadow Gate manor while our host, the unsubtly named Jack T. On this specific episode of The Devil Inside, the show’s top investigator Dave Cooper has been sent to hunt the living dead at Shadow Gate, an enormous haunted estate in the Hollywood Hills taken over by the ghost a notorious serial killer, the Night Howler, who was executed two years ago. Ripper, our hateable master of ceremonies But once it gets rolling, it reveals itself to be a dingy horror game, one that embraces the exploitation themes you’d think it was joking about. The television studio is decked out in ironic glitz and brassy theme music, like a pre-apocalyptic Hunger Games. The Devil Inside looks like it’s going in that direction at first. Audiences demanded more even as they criticized it. Reality TV was exploding Survivor and Big Brother would debut in America that year. When The Devil Inside came out in 2000, the concept was newly relevant. Plenty of movies, games, television shows, and other works of fiction deal with the idea of watching sensationalist depravity as entertainment. In a world of race-to-the-bottom reality programming, The Devil Inside is your chance to see real murder – ghost hunters killing zombies and demons, like a gory, supernatural episode of Cops, while the Los Angeles studio audience cheers them on. If you watch cable TV on the west coast, you’re probably watching The Devil Inside, a live paranormal investigation show on the network.
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