A group of guys went into the woods to film an episode of their cable access show "Fact or Fiction?" They bring along a supposed psychic to help them with their mission: to find out if the Jersey Devil really exists. Two of them were found brutally murdered, and one was never found. The lone survivor is the psychic, and the murders get pinned on him. Our narrator, however, believes that something else happened that night, and sets out on his own mission by putting together this documentary using the men's recorded footage. Obviously, this sounds a lot like "The Blair Witch Project," but really the only thing the two films have in common is the basic premise: local legends and disappearances in the woods. The makers of BWP may have taken the concept of this movie to create their effectively scary psychological horror film. The Last Broadcast itself is not much of a horror film. If anything, it is a document that illustrates how blurry the line between fact and fiction can be, especially when media is involved. It could have been better, but all in all this is a very respectable effort for an extremely low budget film. My Rating: 6/10
Review of The Last Broadcast
The Last Broadcast
(1998)
a somewhat effective illustration of the manipulation of truth by media
14 December 2004