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In this episode, we dive deep into The Last Broadcast (1998) — one of the most overlooked but groundbreaking films in found footage horror history. Before The Blair Witch Project shocked the world,
The Last Broadcast was already rewriting the rules of independent horror filmmaking, digital cinematography, and online storytelling. We explore how Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler created a true DIY horror experiment, shot on consumer-grade tech, edited on a home computer, and eventually released as the first feature film to be distributed digitally to cinemas. From its glitch-soaked imagery to its proto-livestream narrative and use of early IRC chat culture, this movie predicted the entire future of internet-based horror — YouTube investigations, ARGs, analogue horror, livestream-gone-wrong stories, and digital folklore.
In this episode, ...