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
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An eco-supernatural dreamscape companion piece to Al Gore's cautionary doc, An Incovenient Truth, and a thinking man's figurative and literal sub-Arctic chiller with a turbulent character-driven indie soul. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Last Winter does make good on its intriguing premise. And after a dandy beginning and a so-so middle, it delivers a knockout ending. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made. Full Review |
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C |
The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It works eerily well. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Sure, global warming is scary, but chances are even Al Gore would be baffled by Larry Fessenden's moody, Arctic-set 'eco-thriller.' Full Review |
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3/4 |
This message hangs over the entire film... but Fessenden still manages to craft an intense and effective thriller. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Come for the eerie unworldly menace, but stay for the well-balanced currents of terror that manages to sustain itself throughout the film. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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7/10 |
A well done low budget indie production that lets the viewers' imagination picture how bad it gets when mother earth is finally pushed past the breaking point Full Review |
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A horror movie about the consequences of global warming. Set in the Alaskan Wildlife Natural Reserve, the oil company is far scarier than the monsters that attack the movie's main characters. Full Review |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A richly drawn, ambitious character piece both socially relevant and genuinely suspenseful... This is filmmaking both gorgeous and deeply unsettling. Full Review |
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3/4 |
In the end, the scariest thing about The Last Winter is how few of its ideas seem truly fantastic or implausible. Full Review |
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