The Last Broadcast (film)
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| Directed by |
Stefan Avalos Lance Weiler |
| Produced by | Stefan Avalos Lance Weiler |
| Written by | Stefan Avalos Lance Weiler |
| Starring | Stefan Avalos Lance Weiler David Beard Jim Seward |
| Music by | Stefan Avalos A.D. Roso |
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Release date
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United States March 9, 1998 (Premiere) October 23, 1998 (Wide) United Kingdom March 24, 2000 (Wide) April 1, 2000 (Dead by Dawn Edinburgh Horror Film Festival) |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $900 (estimated) |
| Box office | $4 million ($5,596,329.82-$2012) |
The Last Broadcast is a 1998 American found footage horror film made by Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler.
The film deals with a documentary film-maker named David Leigh, and his investigation of the Fact or Fiction murders, where a pair of public-access television cable TV hosts were murdered in mysterious circumstances. Leigh sets out to find the truth behind these killings while making his documentary.
Fact or Fiction is a show dealing with unsolved mysteries and the paranormal. Its two hosts are Steven "Johnny" Avkast and Locus Wheeler. Initially a success, we find out through Leigh's investigations that the show is failing and is threatened with imminent cancellation. It is at this point that Avkast comes up with the idea of a live Internet Relay Chat section of the show.
It is during one such chat that a caller gives Avkast the idea of searching for the Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens (the film only mentions the Jersey Devil, however, and gives absolutely no background details of the legend). Leaping on this idea, Avkast and Wheeler recruit Rein Clackin, a sound-man who allegedly can record the paranormal, and Jim Suerd, a psychic; Leigh later claims that Suerd is emotionally disturbed. The plan is for the four of them to enter the Pine Barrens, where Suerd will lead them to the location of the Jersey Devil. During the hunt, they will broadcast a live show simultaneously via television, Internet, and amateur radio.
They enter the Barrens, but only Suerd emerges alive; the others are horribly murdered. Avkast's body is never found, though it is made clear during Suerd's murder trial that he could not have survived considering the amount of blood lost at the crime scene. Leigh then summarizes the trial. Suerd, the only survivor, is also the only suspect. To aid the prosecution case they employ a video engineer (nicknamed "The Killer Cutter") to compile a portrait of the group's trip using the surviving film footage found at the crime scene. Suerd is found guilty and imprisoned, though there is doubt over his guilt as his clothes were not drenched in blood and there is evidence he was engaged in an IRC room at the times of the murders.
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