The Last Winter

2006

1 hr. 47 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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76%

51 Reviews

Tomatometer

34%

5,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman (James Le Gros) clashes with the drilling crew's chief (Ron Perlman), who wants to get the job done. Strange events begin to plague the crew, and they are soon cut off from the outside world. Hoffman and the crew feel the full force of Mother Nature's wrath, and there is no visible escape.

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Critics Consensus

The Last Winter creatively and effectively uses horror tactics -- fear, tension, anticipation, and just enough gore -- to shock, but never repulse, its audience.

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Thom G

The Last Winter" begins with a brilliant idea and a crucial social message. Unfortunately, the film merely revolves around these ideas and messages without sufficiently developing or elaborating on them.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/24

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Tim V

Original great plot just needs to tweak everything into one pot!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/09/23

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Audience Member

The creative team seems far more concerned about advancing global warming alarmism than advancing a suspenseful or even coherent plot.. Sadly, the characters are about as real as Al Gore’s most irrational climate threats.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/07/21

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Audience Member

The audience score doesn't make much sense. I'm guessing it's from people who saw it as global warming environmentalist propaganda OR they made the mistake of not viewing it during the winter while in a cold weather climate.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

The last winter 12.2.21 5.6/0. Well, don't know what to say about that. I like Ron Perlmam. Think I've seen it before but still, not sure it answers any questions! D.B.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Emil T

Similar to an evergrowing number of today's films, Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter borrowed a page out of the everyday headlines, tackling the topical subject of global warming as the backbone of its unconventional plot. Set in the isolated Alaskan tundra, The Last Winter is a different kind of horror-thriller, using the seeming spirits of caribou-like creatures as the foe (its not as bad as you might think), rather than psychos in masks or ghosts with grudges. Ron Perlman trades in his Hellboy get-up for winter boots and a parka, as the leader of a group of oil scouts who are each brought to the edge of sanity, one by one. A mysterious force infects the group--mostly made up of Hollywood nobodies--before it allegedly spreads to neighbouring towns, and possibly the rest of the planet, much like the repercussions of a global warming. A "horror" movie in which the Earth is the bad guy doesn't exactly send shivers up your spine, but Fessenden (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) somehow finds the terror of this very real possibililty and conveys it well onscreen, and with almost no special effects to speak of. He uses the bitter surroundings of Alaska's most unforgiving regions and the shortfallings of the relatable characters to provide us with one of the most original "horror" movies in recent years.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/21

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Rated: 3/5

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John Monaghan

Detroit Free Press

Fessenden, who directed, produced, cowrote, edited and even has a part in the film rightly values mood at least as much as he does delivering more abominable snow monsters.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 12, 2007

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Cheryl Eddy

io9.com

It may at times come across a bit heavy-handed, but its message is still a timely and valuable one, showing a microcosm driven to total collapse by a planet that’s ready to kick humans out of the ecosystem for good.

Sep 14, 2022

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Shot on location in Iceland and unfortunately hobbled by a bit of third act CGI that compromises the rather compelling ecological message.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 20, 2020

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Dennis Schwartz

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It's a pro-environmental apocalyptic shocker that works as a thinking man's ghost story pic.

Rated: B+

Nov 3, 2010

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Synopsis

Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman (James Le Gros) clashes with the drilling crew's chief (Ron Perlman), who wants to get the job done. Strange events begin to plague the crew, and they are soon cut off from the outside world. Hoffman and the crew feel the full force of Mother Nature's wrath, and there is no visible escape.

Director: Larry Fessenden
Executive Producer: Jeanne Levy-Hinte, Sigurjon Sighvatsson
Screenwriter: Larry Fessenden, Robert Leaver
Production Co: Glass Eye Pix, Antidote Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2007
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.9K
Sound Mix: Dolby

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