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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Blistering performances.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

OK, so let me start by saying that, for me, The Blair Witch Project is the greatest horror film I've seen since it's release back in 1999. I've seen a lot of great horror since then but nothing has surpassed it.The Jersey Devil is an excellent premise as most of us have heard of this unsettling legend.They use the documentary style very well to cover the story of the cult cable show creators and their sound guy murdered in the woods, supposedly by the psychic they take along, Jim Suerd, while filming a story on the Jersey Devil. The documentary maker sets out to prove the innocence of Jim, who has since mysteriously died in his prison cell from unknown causes. Using the method of interviews with police and others involved in the case, retracing the steps of the crew and viewing the footage the crew themselves took on their first fateful night in the Pine Barrens, the film maker attempts to get an understanding of exactly what happened. The found footage of their adventure into the woods doesn't scare outright but it sets a tone that slowly creeps in and effectively plants the seeds of dread and fear combined with the interviews and back stories. What happens after this moment is completely speculation to the authorities. Jim is the only survivor and is the one to report the others as missing the following day. Finding DNA matching blood on his jacket that is carelessly flung on his bedroom floor for anyone to discover incriminates him. The fact that he's been on a primitive online chat room during most of the night doesn't even save his bacon when the police find a 45 minute gap in his posts that would give him enough time to commit the carnage. The fact that I felt very unsettled by this stage without actually seeing anything is a testament to how well they executed this up to this point. Exactly what happened to these guys? You get a glimpse of the dead bodies through police photos of Locus (a co-host of the show) and Rein (the sound guy) which is adequately horrific. The main host, Steven, is missing but his hat lying on the forest floor along with copious amounts of blood is found. The next part of the film had me brimming with excitement that perhaps, just perhaps, this film may be the one that outshines TBWP. The documentary filmmaker receives an anonymous package in the post with crumpled up VHS tape, damaged to the point where it's impossible for him to view it. Enter Michelle, a data retrieval expert, who is put to task to slowly reconstruct the damaged tape, some of which is still intact and other parts are severely damaged and she uses her expertise to "guide" the computer to recreate the images in the mangled tape. This next segment of the film had me on the edge of my seat. You get view some footage of Locus and Rein yelling out to Steve in the dark woods after he's gone missing. They happen upon the bloody pool of what is left of Steve and are attacked by something, the initial fear in their faces insinuating something beyond human recognition. Now, this is where I love the found footage genre. The footage is very shaky, grainy and you can't quite see what's going on, which adds to the effect. Jim is exonerated from guilt, he would have been online at that time posting on the net. Meanwhile, Michelle seems to have found a piece of tape where a different perspective has been filmed during this incident and the face of "another" is slowly being reconstructed. This is where it gets really good. We keep revisiting Michelle on her quest to find the face of the killer and the image is slowly progressing into something that will become recognizable. Are we actually going to see the Jersey Devil? By this stage I'm certain that this is the film that has finally surpassed TBWP. The final stages of her reconstruction of this face are slowly building up to a pinnacle... what am I about to see? STOP!!!! Surely to Christ no? My worst fears are confirmed. The face turns out to be the documentary film maker who proceeds to kill Michelle in plastic. The film descends into a sharp downward spiral from that moment on. All that build about "the Jersey Devil may really be out there" just gets quashed in a matter of seconds. In comparison, that documentary film maker is about as scary as Mary Poppins. Not only that, all of a sudden, the found footage/documentary genre is thrown out the window and the "murderer" is being filmed in a conventional format in the woods with the dead body of Michelle at his feet. THE END. WTF?! How could you destroy such a perfect build up with that pathetic dribble? I'm sure they're scratching their own heads now and wishing they could turn back the clock. This brings me back to the TBWP. You cannot fault the execution and the ending. We still to this day can use our own imagination as to what happened to Josh, Heather and Mike. Was it the Blair Witch?, was it Rustin Parr?, was it a random inbred psycho? The ending of The Last Broadcast could have had so many other infinitely better options than one they chose. You could have at least half shown the face to be some sort of Jersey Devil looking creature or you could have left it up in the air as to what it was and fed the mystery. Jesus, I don't know, anything but that ending! This would have been a perfect 10/10 for me. The ending slashed it back to 6/10.

This could have been a good movie.Fantastic.. The acting/direction was spot on... all the way up to the last 15 or so minutes, where it just sort of commits suicide right in front of you.It gets far enough that I think a decent fan edit could actually bump it up a couple stars... just cut out that last bit, a little creative editing here and there and come up with a creepy image of the jersey devil and call it a day.This movie didn't need a twist. At all. It was delivering on almost every level. Hell, the twist itself wasn't that bad, just the way it was delivered. A little subtlety would've went a long way.

I love the camcorder style of filmaking. Blair Witch, cloverfield, quarantine, diary of the dead, and paranormal activity are all scary and entertaining. So what's wrong with one of the first to tackle this style of filmaking, why didn't I like it? Well, the main reason was that it was pretty boring, it was like solving a puzzle, but without the satisfaction of figuring it out. The characters are pretty bland, I can't even remember their names. Really all I remember is some dudes go looking for the jersey devil, they die, and the only survivor is convicted of the crime.ON a posotive note, it has a great twist ending. The killer, is something you will never believe. But it leads to it becoming third person. In the end, it isn't horrible, but I don't recommend it.

The film opens with a filmmaker who have to sit through a bunch of more or less destroyed videotapes of the last night of the makers of a TV-show with absurd themes like "we will follow a serial killer through the night". Of course that will be their last night. But who is the murderer? Made (most of the running time) clearly on videotape - this is without any doubt the inspiration for the much more hyped "Blairwith Proshit", ahem, "Blairwitch Project", but is far, very, very far more clever made. The first 60 minutes are a genius made (and intentionally "bad" filmed) psycho thriller, the rest is the "snuff movie" you really never want to see. One of the few really surprises in the cinema of the 90ies. And in a psycholicical way really creepy.