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Product:
The
Last Broadcast: Special Edition
Company: Wavelength Releasing
Review By: Byron Hinson
Price: $14:99
| Aspect Ratio | Regional Information | DVD Disc Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
 1 : USA |
NTSC |  Closed Captioning: CC Master format: Film Sides: 1 (SS-DL) Chapter stops: 18 Average Bit Rate: 5 Running Time: 86 Mins |
|
| Sound: | English | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
 |
 2.0 |
2.0 |
|
Subtitles: |
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There has been some recent controversy
surrounding The Last Broadcast. Why you may ask, well there was
some animosity between The Last Broadcast and "The Blair
Witch Project" camps. They are similar to each other in the way
that they were filmed, both are done in a documentary style but the one
that actually came first was The Last Broadcast, not perhaps
surprisingly The Blair Witch Project. But as the final credits
say "The story and characters depicted in this movie are entirely
fictitious. But please don't tell anyone."
On Dec. 15, 1995,
Steven Avkast and Locus Wheeler, the hosts of a cable access show called
Fact Or Fiction, went into the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Aided by Rein
Clackin and Jim Suerd, they were going to do the first live broadcast in
search of the legendary Jersey Devil. Only Suerd came out
alive.
It took the police two
days to find the bodies.
It took the coroner
four days to put them back together.
It took the jury
one-and-a-half hours to sentence Suerd to life in prison.
One year later,
filmmaker David Leigh decided to make a movie about it. Using the
footage shot by the four, he discovered the truth about what really
happened that night. A truth more horrifying than was ever imagined. The Last Broadcast was never
going to be a "show-off to your friends" DVD title, it was
filmed on a $900 budget and it shows. There are quite a few special
features on the DVD though including Behind the scenes footage and
information on the "Legend Of The Jersey Devil" The Movie on
the other hand offers quite a lot. The Last Broadcast begins as I
have mentioned before, as a documentary hosted by filmmaker "David
Leigh", David decided to put together a movie about the murders of
"Fact Or Fiction" hosts Steven Avkast & Locus Wheeler who
were due to go out in search of the Jersey Devil. The Last Broadcast is
excellent when it is working as a documentary but unfortunately, The
Last Broadcast falls apart in the last ten minutes or so as it
builds to a conclusion, it tries to turn itself from a documentary into
a real movie and the results are pretty bad to say the least. The
Last Broadcast's credibility is seriously compromised due to the way
in which it is wrapped up. As I have already mentioned, this is
not a showcase DVD because of the way it was filmed, but it is a pretty
good and scary movie if you can live to accept the unfortunate and
rather poor ending. DVD TV Player - Pioneer DV-626D 
How
It Grades
Picture Quality: 64%
Sound: 65%
Special Features: 82%
Movie Overall: 86%
DVD Overall: 83%
Specs
& Package
Overall
Score
83%
Release
Date
Out
Now
In
The Box?
1
DVD
1 Inlay Card
Special
Features
Behind The Scenes Footage
Director & Cast Commentary
The Legend Of The Jersey Devil
Chapter Selection
The
Good Points
Scary
Excellent for an hour
The
Bad Points
Last
twenty minutes it tries to be a real movie
Memorable
Scenes
1:
20 Minutes & 49 Seconds
1: 24 Minutes & 30 Seconds
1: 58 Minutes & 13 Seconds
Reviewers
DVD & PC Setup
Pentium
II 450
Windows 98 Second Edition
128 Meg SD-Ram
Matrox
G400 32MB AGP Graphics Card
Voodoo 2 - 8mb
DirectX 7a
SoundBlaster Live! Value
17" LG Electronics Monitor
Microsoft Force Feedback Pro
Microsoft
Game Pad Pro (USB)
Microsoft Digital Sound System 80
Microsoft
Intellimouse Explorer
Widescreen TV - Sony KV-28WS2U 28"
DVD Setup: Toshiba SD-1202 DVD-ROM - 32x
