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The Last Winter

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76% Tomatometer 51 Reviews 34% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
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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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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John Monaghan Detroit Free Press 10/12/2007
3/4
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. Go to Full Review
Tom Long Detroit News 10/12/2007
C+
The problem is that the ghostly culprit, some sort of nature spirit, isn't nearly as terrifying as the arguments that Pollack makes, or the fact that the ice in such places really is weakening. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly 10/10/2007
B
Die-hard greenies may find this as unsettling as it's meant to be. For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling. Go to Full Review
Cheryl Eddy io9.com 09/14/2022
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. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 10/20/2020
3.5/5
Shot on location in Iceland and unfortunately hobbled by a bit of third act CGI that compromises the rather compelling ecological message. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 11/03/2010
B+
It's a pro-environmental apocalyptic shocker that works as a thinking man's ghost story pic. Go to Full Review
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Zack K Nov 30 The people giving this movie bad reviews have 100% not seen this movie a single minute of their lives. I did enjoy it. Heads up, it is a drama not a horror movie. See more Wayne K Sep 10 Despite the noughties being a low point for cinematic horror, films like The Last Winter show that there were still reasons to be cautiously optimistic back then. Dodgy CGI notwithstanding, it’s a solid film, making great use of its location and characters to craft an atmosphere of suspicion and suspense. Ron Perlman gives one of his least discussed but most impressive performance as a harsh taskmaster that’s beholden to company orders, but there’s flashes of humanity that comes out now and then, which makes his character all the more believable. I love horrors films with an isolationist setting because it makes things so much more tense, and removes any easy way out for its players. The snow-blasted landscape is like an oppressive force in itself, and while the wonky computer effects are hard to overlook, the movie’s ability to make us fear what we see, and especially what we can’t see, it's what makes it so effective, and it’s the main reason I would recommend it to anyone looking for a horror flick that’s more than slamming doors, flickering lights and mind-numbing jump scares. See more Justin O @WhySoAverage Jul 21 Started interesting enough, but I quickly got bored. I particularly enjoyed the cinematic similarities to The Thing, but that was all it had going for it. Once that wore off, there was nothing of substance here. See more Thom G 02/19/2024 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. See more 03/07/2021 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. See more Jeffrey P 03/04/2021 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. See more Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Larry Fessenden, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
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
Runtime
1h 47m
Sound Mix
Dolby
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