10 Horror Movies That Really Needed A Better Villain

For a solid 97% of its runtime, The Last Broadcast was a sublimely creepy found footage horror film which actually premiered almost a full year before The Blair Witch Project.

The movie focused on the cast and crew of a public access TV show who were brutally killed in New Jersey's remote Pine Barrens while investigating the mythical creature known as the Jersey Devil.

All's well and good until the time comes to finally drop the pretenses and reveal what happened to the ill-fated TV crew, at which point we learn that David Leigh (David Beard), the director of the very faux-documentary we're watching, was the killer all along.

In the film's final moments, the perspective shifts to a third-person camera, where we see Leigh kill the data retrieval expert who deduced his identity from a damaged frame of film.

This felt like a clear case of the filmmakers simply not knowing how to end their movie, nor having the budget to show the Jersey Devil off for real, with the film costing just $900 in total.

All the same, this try-hard twist ended The Last Broadcast on a thunderously lame note. Going the Blair Witch route and simply implying the Jersey Devil's presence, or Photoshopping a single blurred frame of it into the damaged footage, would've been effortlessly superior to the human killer reveal.