Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

tmdarby I wanted to rate this movie much higher than a 3, up until the ending. After seeing the end I struggle to give this more than a 2. The movie drew me in very well, and the documentary style has you believing it all the way through. The acting was fairly good for a low budget horror movie. The story was really good, other than the end. It was a really good movie up until the ending. I can't believe the ending they went with. It made little to no sense and completely ruined what could have been a pretty decent horror movie. This movie gets filed under the "could have been good" category for sure. It's hard to explain how disappointing the ending was for this film. Probably because the build up was so good.

cosmogirl_185 yes, Blair Witch and Broadcast have the same overall theme(teens go into the woods)but if you look passed that you will know each film had a different approach to it. Yes, both used Video but, Broadcast took it one step further. Not only did they incorporate video footage of what happened in the woods that night, but had "commentaries' and interviews from other people involved(which in my opinion made it a lot more sophisticated and intelligent than Blair Witch). I would recommend this film for anyone looking for something "smart" to watch while still having a simple plot. However If you are looking for something like Blair Witch, i wouldn't automatically assume this is the film for you.

MisterWhiplash The Last Broadcast is the kind of example that should be remembered when watching Romero's Diary of the Dead. There were some who criticized Romero for the style of the picture, for the amateurish acting and an unfitting documentary approach. I would put forward the argument that Romero's self-conscious approach that one of the film students edited The Death of Death on a comp while locked in a panic room was meant to *satirize* other documentary-style pictures that go overboard in trying to make "messages". Such as, well, The Last Broadcast. Here is a horror-documentary that takes itself way too seriously for its own good, after opening with a possibly promising premise and couple of scenes that work as intentionally amateur clips of "Fact or Fiction" hosts on Public Access TV- later victims of what could be the Jersey Devil- and then nose-diving into either mind-numbingly boring exposition, cheesy and/or ridiculously edited "digital" images, and a final ten minutes that had me smacking my head just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.So, in short, The Last Broadcast is definitely something of an independent find, but not in one of those nice ways where you find an item you hear about for years and it turns out to be a gem. Here we get "real people" (and some of them, of course, are) telling the story through David Leigh's audio commentary about the Jim Suerd being charged and convicted of murdering the hosts of "Fact or Fiction" and then the process of piecing together footage that is mysteriously sent to the filmmaker and editor Michelle and what clues might lie within. As trying for the documentary style by directors Avalos and Weiler, it falls flat. Not just because of others out there (i.e. Cannibal Holocaust, the Monster Hunter) that take similar approaches with sharper results. It's because of an inherent lack of understanding of how a documentary should work even as a "not-real" documentary. It's hard to build any suspense because whenever something interesting might happen in the found footage there's a cut-away to something stupid, or a lousy freeze-frame or another editing device used as if by the "filmmaker".And it's not really a fault of it being shot on such a ridiculously low budget in and of itself. I can respect that, and if anything it's a good sign for other filmmakers that something can be attempted to be shot on hand-held cameras and edited in the midst of "the digital age". But in the ill-prepared hands it's not an asset either, as Avalos and Weiler can't direct their actors much at all, least of them horribly monotoned David Beard (seriously, wouldn't Vincent Price's droll but menacing baritone work far greater worth here?), and they barely ever conjure up much genuine suspense because, really, the main focus of the Jersey Devil is blurred by poor storytelling: a continuing mass of not-even first-year film school attempts at making "flashy" editing choices and transitions. And yet I might have been able to forgive a lot of the flaws throughout the picture if not, oh for the love of Pete, those last ten minutes.After the bulk of the picture going through its warped documentary approach, when a horrific and sudden (not to mention completely WTF) murder happens, the style reverts to a regular third-person approach, complete with cranes and stedi-cams and other things that suddenly take the viewer completely out of what's been happening. Aside from the murder not making much sense, and even being laughable to a morbid degree, it also doesn't really do much to suggest anything menacing about the Jersey Devil. What is it, that the Jersey Devil somehow can go through internet lines ala electric Gremlin from Gremlins 2 and ask questions to low-rent public access hosts? Or that the Jersey Devil infects the souls of filmmakers who suddenly go from being objective to subjective? What's the point? There isn't one, in the end, which makes the original idea lose next to all of its potential.Or, to put it another way, it says right on the front of the video box a quote from a supposedly praising review: "May have influenced Blair Witch... it certainly preceded it." Um... What?

The_Movie_Cat ... a twist that apparently wasn't that popular.Yes, this is The Last Broadcast, a movie that's suffered the undignified fate of never being reviewed without someone mentioning "The Blair Witch Project", despite the fact that this was released over ten months earlier.In all essences it's a superior work, though a strangely uncompelling one. The concept of parodying the documentary format works well, and has much to say. Sadly, however, what it does say isn't always as interesting as it could be, the narrative pull lacking urgency.By the time we get to the twist - which is arguably satisfying, even if it eliminates the mystery and doesn't even make sense (who is filming those final long shots?) - then whatever compulsion the picture had has already dissipated. A very clever idea and decently made on the budget, but the execution fails to live up to the potential.