As promised for a while, I finally got round to watching The Last Broadcast. This is the story of several student types who arm themselves with video equipment, and go into the woods in search of a legendary monster.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. It was released a year or so before its more successful cousin, but nobody saw it. Now it’s got the full special edition treatment, and on the commentary track, the people behind it seem remarkably sanguine about their relative poverty. Maybe that’s because they realise that their movie is relatively useless.

The movie concentrates on the processes of making the documentary, flashes backwards and forwards in time, and generally comes across like low-budget Errol Morris. One of the results is that the audience never gets a chance to identify with the plight of the characters in the way that made The Blair Witch Project so effective.

Worth seeing if you’re a completist or if you’re likely to come across someone claiming this is a lost classic.

Mild Peril Rating:

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