Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

The Couchpotatoes This is probably one of the worst movies I ever saw in my life. And let me tell you that I saw thousands of movies, really bad ones as well, but this one must be in the bottom. First of all I don't get why it is listed in the horror category. It's not horror at all. In fact there is no category yet for this kind of movies. They should make a category "Movies that nobody should ever watch because they are awful". I guess the producers with their 900 dollars budget are big fans of series like "Unsolved mysteries" or so and they wanted to make a movie about it. Well Unsolved mysteries is pretty low quality but it's about real crimes so it is still watchable. But The Last Broadcast is fiction, with an incredible boring story, incredible lousy filming and editing, incredible mediocre actors. There is absolutely nothing good about this movie. Nothing! Give me a camera and I make you a better movie with my eyes closed. And people that give this movie a higher rating then 2 stars should be banned forever on IMDb. They are falsifying the ratings. They obviously were in the team or at least knew somebody that was involved in the making of this garbage.

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?

merklekranz If you come into this movie expecting to see a documentary on the Jersey Devil, you will be sadly disappointed. If on the other hand, you sit back and watch without that expectation, you just might be entertained. I have seen other ultra-low budgets shot on video, and I can honestly say "The Last Broadcast" has more thought, and creativity, than a dozen of them combined. I had no problem with the ending either, far better than seeing some guy flash by in a rubber devil suit. The filmmakers made the most out of what they had to work with, and for that reason alone the movie met my expectations. You might want to check this one out. - MERK

carl_andersen The film opens with a filmmaker who have to sit through a bunch of more or less destroyed videotapes of the last night of the makers of a TV-show with absurd themes like "we will follow a serial killer through the night". Of course that will be their last night. But who is the murderer? Made (most of the running time) clearly on videotape - this is without any doubt the inspiration for the much more hyped "Blairwith Proshit", ahem, "Blairwitch Project", but is far, very, very far more clever made. The first 60 minutes are a genius made (and intentionally "bad" filmed) psycho thriller, the rest is the "snuff movie" you really never want to see. One of the few really surprises in the cinema of the 90ies. And in a psycholicical way really creepy.