The Last Winter (2006)

A team in Alaska is tormented by an unseen evil. After one crewmember is found dead disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the other team members as each of them succumbs to an unknown fear.System Requirements:Running Time: 101 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 796019810784 Manufacturer No: 81078 Product Description

ZZZZZZZ

Well, with a somewhat recognizable actor, I thought this would be a scare. I waited for 2/3 of the movie to finish just to get even a "Boo". It's apparent the movie is using the usual liberal-Hollywood-loony-leftist hype that man and the evil oil companies are killing mother earth with Global warming. Unleashing the prehistoric wrath of an ancient mother earth protecting/killing ghost. Barf. A waste of electricity folks. It's as if the director is another liberal Hollywood weenie trying to imbibe the worlds simple minded E! entertainment gazing folk with more stuff that is "Scary" with a 'caugh', global warming theme. Note: NOT scary. July 31, 2008

The Last Winter

Wow, what is there to say except this has to be the dumbest movie I have ever seen. If you are dumb enough to buy into the global warming lie, then this vapid movie might be just what you've been looking for. July 28, 2008

The Thing meets Session 9

One of the best horror movies i've ever seen in the last couple years. I had been following this movie back before it was even shown at festivals in 2006. I was jumping with joy when it was finally released on DVD here in the US almost 2 years later... The horror aspect of it is kept minimal and psychological, which is my favorite for these types of movies. Its worth noting that the acting and music are very good for being a low budget straight to dvd flick. The director is one to look out for because his stories are so original and fresh compared to a lot of the other directors in the current scene. The crew is in the middle of the arctic when one by one people start losing it and dying. My guess is that the people who rate this low are the fans of horror movies like Saw and Hostel... Well this is much more of a thinking horror movie then anything like those, the ending is rather confusing but that adds to the thinking part... You are forced to come to your own conclusion. The best way I can sum up this movie is The Thing meets Session 9. July 21, 2008

The last time I'll see a Fessenden movie

I had great hopes for the movie after reading a positive review for it over two years ago that compared it in some ways to John Carpenter's The Thing remake.
After finally finding wide release I was excited to see what was touted by many to be a very good horror movie.
I should have known better though after the disappointment that was Fessenden's Wendigo.
The Last Winter is the story of oil drillers looking to exploit the massive reserves of crude buried beneath the Alaskan wilderness. Slowly each one of the characters begins to fall victim to a mysterious and contagious madness as the ice begins to melt unleasing "ghost caribou," I'm not making that up, CGI ghost caribou.
Anyway, while the movie may or may not intentionally espouse the misguided and cultish poli-pseudo-science that is global warming, the story and scares suck either way.
I was wholey disappointed by this movie which played something like a cross between an arthouse snoozer and a sci-fi channel original movie.
I will give The Last Winter this, however, it's refreshing to see James LeGros back at work and the storyline, while stupid and unfrightening, is at least original and an interesting concept which I imagine served as the basis for M. Knight Shamalamadingdong's most recent rip off, The Happening.
Bottomline, unless you're a fan of pretenious garbage that feigns intellectual depth and or the atrocious cinema the Sci-fi channel pumps out each year, you aren't going to like The Last Winter. July 14, 2008

Scarily bad

I'm having a hard time deciding what I like least about this film. I'm torn between the horrible acting (Ron Pearlman...he must have needed the paycheck but he just phoned this one in), the quasi-scientific babble, or the rediculous ghostly manifestations of the Earth spirit.

I'm not going to politicize the film like some others, although the elements of global warming alarmists and anti-drilling activists are easily deciphered. These things were used as a backdrop, not a statement. Ultimately this was intended to be a horror movie, but it fell completely flat.

For a genuinely great horror film about people isolated in a frozen wasteland confronting an ancient evil, watch The Thing. This film should be buried under the ice and forgotten as quickly as possible. July 14, 2008

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