Connie Britton, James LeGros, Jamie Harrold

In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorien...( read more  read more... )tation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.

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48 critics

Unrated, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Larry Fessenden

Release Date: September 19, 2007

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008

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  • April 14, 2009
    boring sums it up
  • April 14, 2009
    Somewhat effective thriller, somewhat slow drama and somewhat comparable to 'The Happening'.
    Not bad but not developed enough to be really good.
    Bonus points however for Jeff Grace who turns out a great score.
  • April 14, 2009
    Man oh man this looked so promising. Usually I like these but this movie was a waste of time and totally boring. The cast was pretty good, Ron Pearlman is the man and I enjoy his movies...the story was ok...but the execution was soooo sorry. Sigh...I had so looked forward to watc...( read more)hing this....just to be dissapointed
  • April 14, 2009
    A very long, dull plod through material that's already been covered by movies like The Thing and 30 Days of Night. The only difference is The Last Winter is far slower, and it carries an environmentalist message that it stuffs happily down your throat. Watch it for CGI mutant g...( read more)host caribou, laugh, and then never bother with it again.
  • April 14, 2009
    An odd film. Hints of an interesting premise but it never completely congeals. Decent performances across the board.
  • October 17, 2009
    Started off good but ended up being a lousy piece of garbage
  • September 19, 2009
    Even from the beginning this movie showed potential, good acting, interesting characters and very nice cinematography. And as strange things started to happen the atmosphere became more and more eerie.
    Unfortunately the movie did not manage to keep that same atmosphere until the...( read more) end where everything all of a sudden felt rushed. But all in all this was a good horror flick.
  • September 13, 2009
    Every generation has its end-of-the-world hoax craze and many movies feeding on that trend. The atomic age, the cold war age, the virus age etc. It seems that we are living in the climate change hoax age, something that is only believed by people who watch to much television and ...( read more)do not know anything about climate dynamics. Anyway, this movie is a good example of using that craze. Set in a remote arctic station, the inhabitants encounter the fury and horror of an ecosystem striking back. While the movie has all the god ingedients of a b-movie picture, a b-cast, good direction, good music, good setting, it ultimately fails by using a conceptual "enemy" instead of a real one. The wind, the light, the dark spirit, the heat etc, for one reason or the other (none apparent) kill the scientists. It is a shame because the movie starts out quite interesting but becomes a left-wing blob 30 minutes in. There is of course the aspect of cabin fever as in all survival horror movies, but it is orphaned and poorly executed.

    You can miss this one, a fail.

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  • July 6, 2009
    I am amazed that I made it through this entire movie. I was really hoping that there would be some point by the end of it all, but I was horribly disappointed.
  • June 23, 2009
    For a dark themed movie, this movie was fun. It?s very much a thinking person?s horror movie or a supernatural thriller. These subject matter is deep and the setting and lack of real character development limits where this can go ? and that?s the point. The character dynamics are...( read more) there and they are the elements needed. The plot moves everyone along to the same discoveries that need to be achieved for the shocks in the movie. It is not a scary movie in the jump-out-of-your-seat sense, it is a scary movie in the creepy situational sense.

    The only real disappointment is the deliberate dead ends at the last quarter of the movie and, not to the movie?s real fault, but a budget that lent itself to a bit of cheesiness to the visuals. I wouldn?t have minded leaving more to the imagination. Not Blair Witch style, but generally. And the acting from all roles is superb. Connie Britton should be in more. James Le Gros could be a poor man?s Mark Ruffalo (Ruffalo has chops) and Ron Perlman is just underrated in all aspects. It?s nice to see him in a role that isn?t about his look and demeanor. He plays a ?tough guy? that probably just plays that role. It?s a brilliant piece.

Critic Reviews


September 28, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

It works eerily well. full review

September 17, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

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. full review

September 5, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

What with his interest in using B movies as vehicles for intelligent political and psychological inquiries, Larry Fessenden is the type of genre craftsman easy to champion. full review

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