The Last Winter

Okay, nothing much to say here that hasn't already been said by all the other good reviewers on here.Director does a cracking job of building up a sense of tension, isolation and paranoia in the first half of the film.... Full review

The last winter is a movie that starts up promising with an oil field expedition in the arctic plains. The atmosphere of coldness, emptiness, isolation and the resulting paranoia are captured perfectly. Basically the movie starts off a lot like... Full review

Starts off slow... so you think it's just taking its time, introducing you to the characters so you care when they (presumably) start to die horribly later on.Nope. It starts off slow, because that's how the rest of it goes... Full review

The American oil company KIC Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Artic National Wildlife Refuge seeking energy independence. Independent environmentalists work together in a drilling base headed by the tough Ed Pollack (Ron Perlman) in... Full review

This movie had everything it needed to be a great horror movie. Isolation, loneliness, paranoia, psychosis, an unknown terror, a bleak and unforgiving environment; and yet, it falls short, particularly in the second half of the film.The director does a... Full review

Eco horror film about the advance team from an oil company finding that the Alaskan wilderness is turning against it. Ten years earlier a test well had been drilled and what it found was kept secret. Now after years of... Full review

"The Last Winter" is a very moody film with a lot going for it in terms of having a great theme, interesting camera work, good acting and a strong cast. The director did a good job of setting up the... Full review

Larry Fessenden is someone to watch. With first Wendigo and now this, he should be on everyone's cinematic radar- having demonstrated a unique voice, a refusal to do things the way others do them and delivering two absolute masterpieces in... Full review

I was engaged for the whole movie. The sense of being out in the snow, building tension and sense of dread was totally captured. The characters were very well scripted and portrayed.If anything, the underlying threat could have been totally... Full review

Call it the Arctic Documentary, meets Alive!, meets Jurassic 'Horror' Park.I saw this at the Toronto International Film Festival and enjoyed from beginning to end, rather unexpectedly with really good results.This movie is about an oil research team in the... Full review

It also accomplishes with a modest budget and a talented cast what bigger, slicker, gorier contemporary horror movies rarely do. But as far as the film landscape goes, the more stuff bubbles up from the cultural permafrost, the better. ... Full Review

One thing "The Last Winter" is not is a scolding fable (not least because you don't get good cinema from scientists rechecking their calculations, finding everything is copacetic after all, and breaking out the beer). Calling "The Last Winter" a horror movie about global warming suggests a top-down conception that belies its better points. ... Full Review

The Last Winter" is a thinking person's horror film that shows a striking progression in the talents of its creator. Fessenden takes the buck spirit from "Wendigo" and regionalizes it for the Arctic landscape while also showing a surer hand with special effects and nightmarish imagery. ... Full Review

There are undeniable weaknesses in the film, the most problematic of which is that the computer generated antagonists that show up late in the story aren't all that scary. The device also allows Fessenden to root the horror in a concrete reality; although a supernatural element enters the story in the second half, the present-day specificity of Fessenden's context makes the whole film feel very, very plausible. ... Full Review

With The Last Winter , director Larry Fessenden cleverly devises another thriller cauldron in which to stir up mysterious goings-on and endangered protagonists. THE LAST WINTER Rated:NR For movie details, please click here . ... Full Review

THE LAST WINTER (IFC) I've evangelized elsewhere about the brilliance of Larry Fessenden's latest handcrafted genre standout, but I've hardly grown tired of it. So, once more, with feeling: The Last Winter, which stars the great Ron Perlman as the... ... Full Article

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Monday, July 21, 2008 By: Tex Massacre 5 Comments Get excited because this is a pretty awesome edition of Horror In Your House. Arriving this Tuesday to a retailer near you are all sorts of sweet films, such as IFC's ... Full Article

Hey all.. I picked up The Last Winter at BBs last weekend and I would really like to see what you all thought about it. In the end, I wanted to like it, but at the same time sort of ... Full Article

When the crews youngest member, Maxwell, claims that he saw something out in the snow, then is found dead days later, fear envelopes in his associates, causing them to question their judgment and sanity. ... Full Article