| The Last Winter | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 22 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8625
Category: DVD
Actors: Kevin Corrigan, James Legros, Ron Perlman, Jamie Harrold, Tom Chiu
Publisher: Ifc
Studio: Ifc
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Label: Ifc
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD
Running Time: 101 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 81078
UPC: 796019810784
EAN: 0796019810784
ASIN: B0016MJ6JM
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Product Description
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Not What I Expected October 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The info about this movie that I have seen online and from the packaging leads you to believe it's a true horror movie "The Scariest Movie of the Year" and it's not! It's more of a cautionary tale about global warming with a few frozen stiffs thrown in. I was not impressed at all. The acting was wooden (or maybe frozen)and the plot was, to be blunt, incredibly dumb. Spoiler Alert - the big bad is nature fighting back against man. A noble idea for a plot perhaps but badly executed in this case.
 The End of the World as We Know It...or maybe WENDIGO II? September 23, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Larry Fessenden is arguably one of the most interesting directors of independent horror films in recent years. His first feature-length horror flick, NO TELLING (1991), offered a unique post-modern twist on the Frankenstein mythos, and his second, HABIT (1997), brought vampires out of the dark, brooding gothic castles of Europe and into a contemporary city suffering from ennui. In 2001, instead of updating the monsters of traditional gothic horror, he took a more mystical approach with his film WENDIGO, which drew inspiration from a Native American myth. It might seem a logical progression, then, that his latest effort, THE LAST WINTER, combines some of the elements of gothic horror and creatures from Native American myth into an environmental cautionary tale that takes place in the frozen tundra of Alaska.
THE LAST WINTER follows the final days of a team of scientists and technicians employed by an oil company to prep a region in the Alaskan wilderness for drilling. As the day for the arrival of the big drilling rigs approaches, the team members slowly begin to sense that something is terribly wrong. The weather in the region seems to have gone haywire, with wildly fluctuating temperatures and unusual precipitation that alternates between rain and snow; the permafrost seems almost oozy and may be emitting a "sour gas" that is dangerous to humans and animals; and the mental stability of some of the team members seems to be wearing dangerously thin, with the newest member of the team even claiming to have seen some sort of spectral phenomenon. Some members of the team think the odd goings-on are merely natural flukes of weather, but others believe there is something more sinister at hand. Either way, could it be that nature is finally taking a stand against human tampering?
Fessenden pulls some strong performances from his actors in this film, especially the principals. As the leader of the prep team, Ron Perlman (he of HELLBOY fame) is even more delightfully overbearing and grizzled than usual. The beautiful Connie Britton--known to viewers from TV's SPIN CITY and, more recently, NBC's FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS--does an outstanding job playing against type as a tom-boyish second-in-command, and James LeGros is very effective as a scientist who opposes Perlman's desire to forge ahead with the oil company's drilling plans. Together with the supporting players, they generate a palpable sense of fear and despair as the team deteriorates both mentally and physically.
As in his other films, Fessenden keeps special FX to a minimum and uses the acting, character development, unusual cinematography and editing, music, and sound design to build the sense of fear in the minds of the audience. And even when the audience is given a glimpse of the monster, Fessenden purposely leaves it unclear as to whether the monster was genuine or simply something generated in the unstable minds of the characters. This sort of ambiguity often makes his films even scarier, because the implication is that we humans are more monstrous than anything of myth or legend.
And speaking of monsters, the creatures that are glimpsed in THE LAST WINTER look surprisingly similar to the creature in Fessenden's previous film WENDIGO, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that one of the characters, the prep team's Native American cook named Dawn, makes a brief reference to the mythical Wendigo when the first major unexplained event occurs in the film. Though the two stories have very little in common thematically or by way of plot, the rural settings and the peripheral Native American characters of both films make it easy to speculate that Fessenden may have intended THE LAST WINTER as a subtle sequel to WENDIGO.
While not quite as interesting nor as unique as director Larry Fessenden's previous works HABIT (1997) and WENDIGO (2001), THE LAST WINTER is nonetheless a tense and frightening modern horror flick that combines some elements from gothic horror and Native American myth into a modern cautionary tale about human responsibility to the natural environment. The DVD from IFC and Genius Entertainment offers a vivid, clean digital transfer of the film at its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 (anamorphic for 16x9 TVs), as well as some cool bonus features such as deleted scenes, an interview with director Fessenden, and a feature-length commentary by the director. All in all, this DVD is well worth the price of admission.
Eco-Horror? Who cares! This is a well done fright flick. September 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hesitant at first because of what I heard about it being some sort of eco-horror film with the filmmaker pounding you over the head about global warming etc. really scared me off. Thankfully, I put my fears aside and just thought about how good Larry Fessenden's(Habit, Wendigo) other films were and gave this a shot. I was dead wrong! Sure there are some lessons to be learned, but overall this IS a horror film. A smart horror film at that.The Cinematography and score is very unsettling and the acting job from Ron Perlman is a bunch of fun. Personally it is a huge step from "Wendigo" an even passed by "Habit". A lil bit of Carpenter's The Thing with a dash of Supernatural thrown in. I have no problems reccomending this film and I am looking forward to Fessenden's next project with the bar raised considerably higher.
 Just a pure piece of ...... September 6, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an hour and fourty minutes of my life I will never get back. To think of what I else I could have done during this time......
Completely stupid movie ! August 30, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Save your time and money, do something else than buying or even rent this movie. Pure waste of time. Why can't we give zero star, because this one really deserve it.
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