Last Broadcast, The
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
After the box office success of the indie-film juggernaut The Blair Witch Project almost anyone with a camcorder and a few buddies thought that they could make just as good a film by taping events as they transpired in their backyard—yet, despite the enthusiam of a gazillion wannabe auteurs, there’s only been one film to come out and mimic BWP’s cinema verite style…1998’s The Last Broadcast—a film that actually predates The Blair Witch Project.
TLB is a faux documentary about about Steven Avkast (Stefan Avalos) and Locus Wheeler (Lance Weiler)—two guys who host a local public access cable show that explores the paranormal entitled Fact or Fiction. In December of 1995, Steven and Locus plan a live remote broadcast from the New Jersey Pine Barrens—the supposed haunting grounds of the infamous Jersey Devil. The two hosts, along with sound guy Rein Clackin (Rein Clabbers) and supposedly psychic guide Jim Suerd (Jim Seward) set off into the isolated forest, taping their trek. After a long dark night in the forest, only Suerd returns to civilization—Wheeler and Clackin are found murdered and mutilated, Avkast is never found at all.
