A richly drawn, ambitious character piece both socially relevant and genuinely suspenseful... This is filmmaking both gorgeous and deeply unsettling.
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09/21/07
The Last Winter (2007)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:37
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Creatively and effectively uses horror tactics to shock, but never repulse, its audience.
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: In a cinematic world where most horror films are loud and flashy, it might be easy to overlook Larry Fessenden's quietly creepy THE LAST WINTER. But if they do, genre fans would be missing out on a... [More]
Starring: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton, Kevin Corrigan
Director: Larry Fessenden
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Reviews for The Last Winter
Gruesome 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.
09/20/07
Top CriticAn elegiac piece of filmmaking that transcends cheap thrills
09/17/06
Consistently chilling (no, that's not a pun), with crisp, haunting visuals and sound character relationships.
09/21/07
Has a look and feel all its own, but Fessenden's ambition ultimately butts heads with his budget.
09/17/07
[It] accomplishes with a modest budget and a talented cast what bigger, slicker, gorier contemporary horror movies rarely do. It taps into a collective dread compounded by the guilt of our complicity.
09/20/07
Top Critictakes a smart and terrifying scenario and plays it out to the logical extreme
09/18/07
Last Winter does make good on its intriguing premise. And after a dandy beginning and a so-so middle, it delivers a knockout ending.
10/19/07
It features a supernatural threat, but it doesn't need one, because the film works so brilliantly as simply a psychological mood piece.
09/20/07
Fessenden's best film to date is a horror movie built on eerie atmosphere and unspoken terror. Director of photography Magni Agustsson achieves beautiful visual textures and distances that allow hidden meanings to saturate the audience.
09/22/07
As such terror is harder and harder to articulate, the film is most effective when it abandons dialogue and leaves the camera to do its very spooky work.
10/19/07
The Last Winter was shot in northern Iceland and Alaska, and despite some too-explicit imagery in the final moments, the claustrophobia-to-psychosis continuum is harrowingly fluid.
09/17/07
Top CriticAn imperfect but compelling thriller.
09/20/06
Top CriticThe film deserves attention, not just because of its important global warming message but as a genre piece done a little more intelligently.
09/20/07
Fessenden's best film and a huge turning point for him as a filmmaker, promising even stronger work to come.
09/19/07
Ues conventional chills to create a surging diatribe on humanity’s willingness to let nature fall into disarray.
09/19/07
This message hangs over the entire film... but Fessenden still manages to craft an intense and effective thriller.
09/27/07
In the end, the scariest thing about The Last Winter is how few of its ideas seem truly fantastic or implausible.
09/21/07
The acting's good, the camera work is haunting and [director] Fessenden continues to build his image as the thinking person's creepmeister.
09/20/07
Top CriticIdiosyncratic horror film mixes science and the supernatural.
09/13/06
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