The Last Winter

Name: The Last Winter
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: September 21, 2007
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Connie Britton, James LeGros, Ron Perlman

2007

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Antidote Films (I) | Release Date: September 21, 2007 | Not Rated

Starring: Connie Britton, James LeGros, Ron Perlman

Summary: In one of the most pristine landscapes in the world, a team working to exploit Alaska's oil resources is tormented by an unseen evil. After one crew member is found dead, disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other members of the team as each of them succumbs to an unknown fear. This creeping dread bursts open when a malevolentIn one of the most pristine landscapes in the world, a team working to exploit Alaska's oil resources is tormented by an unseen evil. After one crew member is found dead, disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other members of the team as each of them succumbs to an unknown fear. This creeping dread bursts open when a malevolent wind brings down a plane that approaches the station. Explosions and carnage wreak havoc on the team, and all functions fail in the camp, forcing two of the members out into the cold on a desperate bid for survival. As these two journey to find help, they find themselves utterly alone in a world that is unraveling--either they are being stalked by an invisible herd of menacing phantoms, or they are going mad. (IFC Films)… Expand

Director: Larry Fessenden

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 101 min

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Nathan Lee

It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts--and unnerves--in this most chilling of global-warming movies. Read full review

Carina Chocano

It's billed as an environmental horror story, but The Last Winter bears all the hallmarks of an ever-popular genre that has always pitted science, technology and reason against emotion, awe and nature. It bears all the hallmarks of the gothic: ghosts, death, alienated sexuality, decay, secrets, madness and, of course, awe and trepidation in the face of the sublime power of nature. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

Gruesome and terrifying things happen in The Last Winter, but there's no gratuitous gore or torture, and the film's real power comes from its building sense that something really, really bad is ABOUT to happen. Read full review

Steven Rea

Succeeds royally at building a sense of apocalyptic dread. It isn't quite so successful at sustaining that mood, and Fessenden resorts to blurry images of totemic spirit forces and stampeding moose specters to get where he's going. And where exactly is that? To a place designed to scare the bejesus out of us planet-pillaging consumers. Read full review

David Edelstein

Like his "Wendigo," the film has a lot of mumbo jumbo about ancient spirits revived and angered by human disrespect--the old Indian-graveyard paradigm, as clunky as ever. But the context is overpoweringly eerie. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Something wicked this way comes in the nifty horror film The Last Winter, crawling through the hallways and howling into the dread night. Read full review

David Wiegand

The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made. Read full review

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azg

Jul 29, 2008

This film is is more or less how I imagine the end. Ghostly apparitions and chaos unfolding as a result of human treachery and neglect. It is no hollywood shocker. Just a straight story of men and women confronting the inevitable.

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JoeT

Sep 13, 2008

Larry Fessenden... I like you. Fans of heady horror and/or The Thing would do well to stick their murder boners into this beast.

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EdG.

Dec 27, 2008

Creepy. Haunting. Claustrophobic. Well-acted, even if Ron Perlman's character is written as a one-note villain. Beautifully shot, permeated with dread. James LeGros does fine work. Fessenden and his cinematographer turn the frozen nothingness into a living, breathing, palpable and Creepy. Haunting. Claustrophobic. Well-acted, even if Ron Perlman's character is written as a one-note villain. Beautifully shot, permeated with dread. James LeGros does fine work. Fessenden and his cinematographer turn the frozen nothingness into a living, breathing, palpable and inexorable adversary.… Expand

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JayH.

May 7, 2008

Great cinematography. Incredible atmosphere. Very eerie and suspenseful. Well acted. I wish it wasn't quite so mysterious, but it's a finely crafted film.

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Justin

Dec 9, 2007

I was with this until the last ten minutes, then it all came apart. It was like ok, ok, ok, ok, WTF!?, movie over. Too bad.

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Xan_Ryil

Dec 3, 2015

The Last Winter is set in exactly same setting as 80's cult The Thing, but it is focused on more psychological aspects then on the alien parasite. Which ultimately sucks the juice out of it. Movie is powerful in every way but since it ends in an abyss, it losses most of it's charm there.

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SeanF.

Jul 19, 2008

The critics must have taken a payoff on this one. There's no explanation for nearly anything that happens in this film (and a great deal of it is confusing). The ending clarifies nothing, and only serves as a reminder that you've wasted over 90 minutes of valuable lifetime viewing The critics must have taken a payoff on this one. There's no explanation for nearly anything that happens in this film (and a great deal of it is confusing). The ending clarifies nothing, and only serves as a reminder that you've wasted over 90 minutes of valuable lifetime viewing this horrible piece of rubbish.… Expand

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