Last Broadcast

Pros: Very authentic feeling; good story and set-up; genuinely frightening first-person footage
Cons: The ending...enough said

Lance Weiler and Stefan Avalos's 1998 film The Last Broadcast in many ways could probably considered one of the most influential films of the last decade or so.  The film was the first effort completely shot and distributed using digital ...

Pros: decent performances, and a nice low-budget documentary feel make this film an entertaining hour and a half
Cons: a few plotholes and a weird ending keep the film from being classic

The Last Broadcast: FFM Productions/ Wavelength Releasing
Rating: USA: Unrated/ UK: 18

After the box office success of the indie-film juggernaut The Blair Witch Project almost anyone with a camcorder and a few...

Pros: you'll love it or hate it, no medium here - pardon the pun
Cons: described in review

I try not to read reviews or blurbs about a movie that is classified as ‘horror’ before I watch it. Generally I don’t even read the jacket cover or media hype at all, afraid something important will be given away. That was definitely the ...

Pros: Chillingly realistic
Cons: the last 10 minutes or so.

This movie was released in 1998. It stars David Beard as David Leigh (the filmmaker), Jim Seward as Jim Suerd, Stefan Avalos as Steven Avkast, Lance Weiler as Locus Wheeler and Rein Clabbers as Rein Clackin. Stefan and Lance also wrote and directed the...

Pros: Original and creepy. Will keep you on the edge of your seat
Cons: Some of the documentary interviews might bore those with short attention spans

The Last Broadcast was introduced to me by a friend this past weekend who is also a Blair Witch Project lover. Apparently, there was quite a bit of controversy about BWP when it came out because people claimed it ripped off its idea from...

Pros: The end was slightly scary
Cons: slow and you don't get to know the characters

I waited eagerly for this film to come out on video. I had seen The Blair Witch, and it was okay, but I was looking for more. I had read some reviews, and apparently that's what The Last Broadcast was supposed to be. It's based in New Jersey,...

Pros: chilling buildup, creative story telling
Cons: ending that gives up completely and makes no sense

Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life. That is a question that has existed for ages. Does what we see in films and read in books mold how we react in situations, or do real life situations influence what we perceive as entertainment....

Pros: ORIGINAL, fun, kind of scary
Cons: choppy footage at times gets a tad annoying

The first question that seems to be the focus of a lot of controversy is: Did THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT rip off the LAST BROADCAST? Yes....and no.

Yes, the people of the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT ripped off the idea of a horrific mockumentary and...

Pros: Very Blair Witch-like!
Cons: Very Blair Witch-like! The ending is bad!

Let me start by saying that the box for this movie claims that it preceded The Blair Witch Project. I'm not sure if this is true or not. But, either way, someone "borrowed" someone else's idea!

This movie is done a similar...

Pros: There didn't appear to be any hookers in this movie.
Cons: It wasn't very good.

October 1999. I was working at the local Blockbuster to keep myself in pretzel and lab animal money. To celebrate the video release of the Blair Witch Project, each employee was given a nifty black tee-shirt with the movie's logo on the chest. While...

Pros: First of it's kind, and best of it's kind.
Cons: Low budget effects stick out like a sore thumb

This movie is more then anyone expected it to be... this movie started a phenominon to end all; the mock documentary horror film... you've seen its many knockoffs but none of them stand up to this one. The Last Broadcast, directed by Stefan Avalos and...

Pros: Gripping reality film, chilling discoveries along the way
Cons: sometimes slows down to boring pace, ending sucks

...Or should I say that 'The Blair Witch Project' could have ended up like this film. Strangely, it's not widely known that this movie pre-dates TBWP. It was a 'pseudo-documentary' when they weren't cool.

As such, this one gets little credit...

Pros: guy wraps sexy brunette in saran wrap
Cons: she's dead

I think that "The Blair Witch Project" is one of the greatest movies of all time and f*ck ya'll if you think I'm wrong! Hearing that there was another movie with the same kind of style and substance piqued my interest and I had to check it out. What I...

Pros: Better direction, planning, plotting
Cons: shaky transition when the killer's revealed.

Behind all the hype laid a minor controversy involving a documentary about the Jersey Devil murders. Blair Witch was eating up the Sundance festival, but in my own experience with both films, this one stands out as the better one. Why? Let me run a few...

Pros: it ended
Cons: it was terribel

I have been waiting in anticipation for over a year and a half to see this movie. I remember hearing it commented on during all the Blair Witch hoopla surrounding the movie last summer. I heard that it was so similar to the Blair Witch and how the Blair...