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The Last Winter

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Editorial Reviews

A team in Alaska is tormented by an unseen evil. After one crewmember is found dead, disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other team members as each of them succumbs to an unknown fear.

Customer Reviews

The Last Winter

Reviewed by Carl Manes, 2010-03-09

The crew of an Alaskan drilling company falls under siege by a mysterious force that seeks to drive them from the icy tundra in this isolated thriller. The remote location of the Alaskan ice fields already sets a desperate and claustrophobic mood before any of the action takes place. Though there is a clear ecological subtext, the plot does not focus exclusively on it and allows the characters breathing room to deal with inner conflicts and difficulties brought on by the harsh environment. Still, it is clear from the very start that man is villain in all of this, and that the ghostly forces acting upon the crew are the anti-heroes sent to exact nature's revenge. Many aspects of the film work very well, like the droning score that accentuates the growing fear, but there are also others that do not. There is a complete overuse of fly-by helicopter shots that become increasingly distracting as the plot wears on. Outside of the occasional overacting, the cast does manage to create grounded characters with organic fear that develops from their increased paranoia. These underlying themes reflect the same terrors present in John Carpenter's THE THING, minus the alien menace. THE LAST WINTER has not been well received by many fans expecting to see a big creature payoff in the end, but patient viewers that can appreciate a gradual build up of paranoia and psychological terror will find plenty to enjoy.

-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies

SCARY EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

Reviewed by Steenee Michelle, 2010-02-12

Oh, man this was eerie. Not in the traditional way, though. I purchased it because the cover said scariest movie of the year. I don't necessarily agree with this, but it was worth a look-see. Showcasing more of the effects of global warming somewhere in Alaska than being the scariest movie of the year. The individuals in the movie start dying as they seem to loose their minds, see and hear things. Visions of moose that are not there, or are they? The one survivor from the camp/outpost wakes up in the hospital and the doctor has hung himself. The survivor ventures outside (somewhere else in Alaska) and it's raining!! Looking around and not a single soul in sight. Movie ends. Eerie.

nature-revenge horror flick that goes nowhere

Reviewed by Roland E. Zwick, 2010-01-23

**1/2

If you've ever wondered what the cast members of TV's "Friday Night Lights" were up to before they hit pay dirt with that wonderful series, check out "The Last Winter," where you can see no fewer than two of them - Connie Britton and Zach Gilford - fighting forces of evil together in a single film. Here they play employees of an energy firm that has sent a small team, headed by Ron Perlman, to the Arctic Circle to pump out the oil that lies beneath the newly-melting permafrost. James LeGros is a cocky environmentalist who keeps trying to convince everyone that something "not quite right" is happening to the climate in the area, but none of the "drill, baby, drill" types seem to want to listen. Yet, soon a mad-as-hell Mother Nature is taking matters into her own hands and, before you know it, rain is falling in February, the ice is breaking under the workers' feet, the equipment is malfunctioning, crows are circling the premises, planes are dropping out of the sky, people's noses are bleeding for no apparent reason, one man has wandered off into the wilderness stark naked, a mysterious creature is lurking around the base, and a strange form of madness has begun to settle in over the employees.

There's really not a whole lot to say about "The Last Winter" - which has been directed, edited and co-written by Larry Fessenden - except that this cautionary-tale about the dangers of global warming is long on exposition and short on credibility and suspense. And, oh yes, the climax is really, really cheesy.

It's nice to see Britton and Gilford outside the confines of Dylan, Texas for a change, but this low-grade mishmash of climate-change speculation and Inuit folklore - think of it as "The Thing" meets "An Inconvenient Truth" - has precious little else to recommend it.

Nothing To See Here

Reviewed by Jay A. Klein, 2009-11-29

. . . so keep moving along. Just another anthropomorphization of nature, giving the unconscious consciousness. Drivel, pure and simple, and another offering on the alter of Ecological Puritanism. NOTE TO TREE HUGGERS: Check out the recently "unearthed" emails from Britain's CRU to find out where Mother Nature's true consciousness lies. It's in the lying and deceptive posturing of propagandist "scientists" who would do better working in Misinformation Ministries, not laboratories. NOTE #2: The earth is not in a warming cycle, ladies and gentlemen, and that is a FACT. We've been holding steady and cooling for well over a decade now, with a greater likelihood of an Ice Age on the horizon than not. This movie is a complete and utter waste of talent, money, and effort. Horror? Absolutely not. The only "gore" in this movie comes from Al.

Can go either way

Reviewed by HMAN, 2009-10-02

Finally saw this one last night. The long and short of it is I can see where some love it, and where some hate it.

On the positive side, the movie does have a feel that reminds me of a combination of Session 9 and Carpenter's The Thing, as another reviewer stated. The director using sweeping cameras on the ground and air to show the vastness of the environment and create a sense of stillness and isolation. And it works, and feels generally unsettling. I love Ron Perlman, and thought he and the supporting cast did well, and were convincing.

The biggest problem in my opinion was that ultimately, the movie didn't know what it wanted to be......in other words, did it want to have creatures and make that more of a focus, or did it want to be the unseen horror, that is never fully revealed. I think maybe this film attempted to do both and that hurt it. I would have liked it more if you were left wondering whether it was the climate, or some evil, or the minds of the characters or all of these that caused everything to transpire.....the movie was building very well....and then, as others have noted, we got that spirit creature...while I am not as down on the creature as others, it was more the fact that it was revealed at all that hurt the film, at least in my mind.

Anyway....a decent movie that could have been great. If you're into this genre, give it a try. While I remain on the fence, I certainly have no regrets about watching it and will probably watch it again.