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The Last Broadcast

1998 · TMDB 5.0

Directed by Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler

In December 1995, a four-man team from the public-access program, "Fact or Fiction", braved the New Jersey's desolate Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of the legendary Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. It took the jury ninety minutes to sentence the lone survivor to life in prison. One year later, a filmmaker decides to mount his own investigation...

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Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler's found-footage hoax, shot for a reported $900 and marketed as a real documentary, follows a public-access crew into the New Jersey Pine Barrens to hunt the Jersey Devil for a live broadcast. The film's killer is a media apparatus as much as a man,...

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