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Writers:
Stefan Avalos (writer) &
Lance Weiler (writer)
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Release Date:
23 October 1998 (USA) more
Tagline:
What actually happened that night in the woods? more
Plot:
Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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David Beard ... David Leigh, The Filmmaker
Jim Seward ... Jim Suerd - The Accused
Stefan Avalos ... Steven Avkast - 'Fact or Fiction' Host
Lance Weiler ... Locus Wheeler - 'Fact or Fiction' Host
Rein Clabbers ... Rein Clackin, Paranormal Sound Man
Michele Pulaski ... Michelle Monarch - Data Retrieval Expert
Tom Brunt ... Tom Branski - Technical Director of 'Fact or Fiction'
Mark Rublee ... Clair Deforest - Editor for the Prosecution
A.D. Roso ... Anthony Rosi - Lead Investigator of Murders
Dale Worstall ... Dr. Dale Orstall, Jim's Child Psychologist
Vann K. Weller ... Dr. Vann Waller - Forensic Pathologist
Sam Wells ... Sam Woods - Television Soap Director
Jay MacDonald ... Jay McDowell, Web Designer
Faith Weiler ... Joyce Dryer, Jim's Landlady
Marianne Connor ... Mary Brenner, TV Reporter
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Runtime:
86 min
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Dubbed the first "desktop feature film", it was the first film to be filmed, edited, and screened entirely digitally. No film was involved. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Blair Witch Project (1999) more
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18 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
I Still Know What "The Blair Witch" Did to "The Last Broadcast" This Summer..., 6 August 1999
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Author: Tony Rowland (rogueplanet@webtv.net) from Vancouver, Washington

"Star Wars" had "Battlestar Galactica".

"The Abyss" had "Leviathan" and "Deep Star Six".

"Babylon 5" had "Deep Space Nine."

"Last Broadcast" has "Blair Witch."

All the above were films or TV shows with original ideas that were used and/or usurped by other studios. Some of the spin-off ripoffs were better, some were not.

"Blair Witch" fans defend their film, made and released nearly a full year after "Broadcast", by saying that their film is only identical on a surface level...teens travel into the woods to make a documentary and are killed. The truth runs much deeper.

Both films used video instead of film, both films used a pseudo-documentary format, both showed what happened to the characters using footage they shot to tell the story, both leave the audience wondering just exactly what happened. The main difference is that "Broadcast" told you the story from a different perspective...the point of view of a documentary filmmaker involved with the killings. "Broadcast" is, in this respect, much more intelligent than "Blair Witch". "Blair Witch" is more frightening, more eerie, where "Broadcast" doesn't get really creepy until the end, where you realize where the story has taken you. You have been led down the garden path, past the lies that pass as truth, and face-first into the face of darkness. "Blair Witch" is more personal, first-person driven rather than detached. This is more impressive, but it is also louder and more obvious.

I enjoyed both films, but I respected "Broadcast" more. It did it first, it did it well. "Blair Witch" will make more money off the backs of the filmgoers who were fooled by the hype, but "Broadcast" will love on as it's predecessor. Don't go into "Broadcast" expecting a scarier movie, just a more intelligent one.

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