The 44-game Carlton player has produced one of the best horror films of the year and counts Stephen King as a fan. It’s a far cry from his footy career
Former AFL footballer Adam White playing for Carlton in 2000 and dressed as an Owl High Priest in Late Night with the Devil.Former AFL footballer Adam White playing for Carlton in 2000 and dressed as an Owl High Priest in Late Night with the Devil.
White studied animation at Tafe, got an internship at an animation company, and landed a job at Working Dog as an editor on Thank God You’re Here. Around that time, he met the filmmaking brothers, Colin and Cameron Cairnes. When they showed him an early draft of Late Night with the Devil, a film about a Halloween Special on a US talk show which goes horribly wrong, White and co-producer Matt Govoni offered to get invovled.
The hard work paid off. In 2023 Late Night with the Devil debuted at South by Southwest, and played film festivals across the world. It was well received; the Observer gave it four stars and: “It’s absolutely brilliant. I couldn’t take my eyes off it.” In the horror world, that’s pretty much the equivalent of winning a Brownlow, a Norm Smith and a premiership.Jump cut to the present day.
White is not the first former footy player to move into an unusual career – Leigh Colbert became a pilot, Kane Cornes was a fireman and Warwick Capper tried everything from meter-maid to adult movie star – but White is the only former player who has crossed over into horror movies.
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