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Carmichael Haig, aka Carmichael the Conjurer, is one of the main characters of the "found footage" supernatural horror film Late Night with the Devil. He appears to be inspired off the late James Randi.
He was portrayed by Ian Bliss.
What Makes Him A Hate Sink?[]
- While he is true that con artists prey on grieving people and him wanting to expose them is an admirable mission, Carmichael is a colossal jerk. When he first arrives on Jack's talk show, he derides Christou as a charlatan leading to him getting water tossed in his face. He rudely accuses Dr. June Ross-Mitchell, a parapsychologist, of exploiting Lilly's experience with the First Church of Abraxas. Even when evidence of the supernatural becomes increasingly blatant, Carmichael still refuses to buy into it despite his explanations gradually becoming weaker. He also shows himself to be something of a hypocrite: by hypnotizing Gus, he was exploiting him and his irrational fear of worms. Much like Christou, Carmichael is more than willing to take advantage of vulnerable people, his only rebuttal being that he admits to it.
- He demonstrates sexist rhetoric with Dr. June.
- Carmichael is a self-absorbed man who loves hearing the sound of his own voice and appears to only want to further push his beliefs so he wouldn't have to give away any money he had promised to anyone who could give verified proof of the supernatural. While he starts off giving believable explanations behind the actions of Christou by pointing out how he was using hot and cold methods in his psychic readings, he stumbles a few times with his scientific reasoning.
- Even Jack himself believes Carmichael is unpleasant; he is one of the few people that he outright silences anytime he insults his guests. June also notes how Carmichael was one of the people who knowingly closed their minds to the paranormal.
- Carmichael forces Gus to be apart of his presentation debunking the summoning ritual that June did with Lilly. He hypnotizes him into thinking that worms were coming out of every orifice of his body only to pull the rug from under him. Earlier, Carmichael appeared to show concern towards Gus as he increasingly wanted to leave, which is a major kick the dog moment.
- When Mr. Wriggles fully possesses Lilly and brutally massacres Gus and Dr. June, Carmichael cowardly tries to pledge his undying allegiance to the demon and, when that fails, tries offering it the paycheck to obvious results. This is in contrast to Dr. June's actions. Upon Lilly being overtaken by Mr. Wriggles, she tries to bravely fight it only to be killed.
- Because of his egotism and general rudeness, Carmichael's death is given little sympathy with him being burned to death by the same demon he had been bullying all night.