The Last Broadcast (1998)

It’s one of the landmark films in the history of found footage films, 101 Films is set to release the 1998 trailblazing mystery The Last Broadcast (1998). Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler‘s chilling feature debut is disturbing, ambiguous is set for its worldwide Blu-ray debut in December as Title 023 on the 101 Films Black Label,

This Limited Edition Blu-ray release includes a new 30-minute interview with the directors, newly commissioned slipcase artwork from legendary comics artist Stephen R. Bissette, and a booklet with expert writing on the film and the found footage genre from the directors of feature documentary The Found Footage Phenomenon (2021).

In 1995 a four-man team from the cable-access program Fact or Fiction braved the desolate New Jersey
Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of legendary monster, the Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. The lone survivor was sentenced to life in prison, but filmmaker David Leigh is convinced that he’s innocent. Could the Jersey Devil still haunt the barrens?

Special Features
โ€ข A New Broadcast: Interviews with co-directors Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler (NEW)
โ€ข Limited Edition Booklet: Includes ‘Welcome to the Digital Age: The Last Broadcast and the horrors of the
Internet’ by Phillip Escott and ‘Fact or Fiction?’ by Sarah Appleton (NEW)
โ€ข Commentary with co-directors Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler (1999)
โ€ข Commentary with co-directors Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler (2006)
โ€ข Behind-the-scenes documentary: Production
โ€ข Behind-the-scenes documentary: Post-production
โ€ข Behind-the-scenes documentary: Distribution
โ€ข Exclusive interviews
โ€ข Fact or Fiction: rare clips from the infamous public access show
โ€ข Jim Seward: Alive and Well performing two folk songs
โ€ข Lucas: What really happened?
โ€ข Gallery of Gore: Pine Barrens murder crime scene and autopsy images, Last Broadcast poster and box art
from around the globe
โ€ข Trailer

The Last Broadcast will be released for the first time on Blu-ray from 6th December. Released as title number 023 on the 101 Films Black Label.


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