Format: Streaming video from Amazon Prime on Fire!
The They Shoot Zombies list updated recently, which is always a several day process for me in terms of updating my spreadsheets, blog, and Letterboxd site, since I am the unofficial curator of films that were on the list and have been removed. Typically, the update involves 3-4 dozen movies, most of which will have been on the list in the past with a few new additions. This year was a wholesale change, with 172 changes. Of those, 84 were returns and 88 are new to the list. It was a needed overhaul, though, because the list has been light on modern films, and the update is mainly films from the last 10 years. There are some exceptions, though, including The Last Broadcast, a found footage film that predates The Blair Witch Project by a year.
It's important that The Last Broadcast came first, because it explains the main issue with the film. Blair Witch established a lot of the rules of found footage despite there having been a number of films in the style before that. So, when I say that The Last Broadcast breaks the rules of the style, it’s only fair to point out that those rules weren’t really set in stone until the following year—it’s a sort of ex post facto complaint on my end.
