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4.0 out of 5 stars
Chilling Chamber Piece, 28 Feb 2008
This review is from: The Last Winter [2006] [DVD] (DVD)
Having recently watched the irritating 1408 and the ridiculous NUMBER 23, it was a pleasure to sit down with the low budget LAST WINTER, about which I knew nothing, and let the unease soak into my bones like a hard, cold wind. It's a movie that looks like developing a cult audience on DVD. And it deserves it. The sense of isolation and despair that develops as the characters slowly crack open is good. As the permafrost melts away, so does their sanity, and the idea that there's something really nasty about to rise up through the slush is pretty disturbing.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Missed the mark, 3 May 2008
This review is from: The Last Winter [2006] [DVD] (DVD)
It was such a shame watching this film as it had all the ingredients of a good horror movie - cabin fever, wilderness, lots and lots of snow etc. Unfortunately it felt like this film hadn't quite decided which plot to follow - concentrating on possibly the poorest storyline and missing the mark on what could've been a really creepy film. The end is the worst part - cutting the film short making the viewer feel like it has been added as an afterthought, leaving everything unexplained (but not in a good way).
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4.0 out of 5 stars
"Do you see it!?!?", 29 Sep 2007
This review is from: The Last Winter [2006] [DVD] (DVD)
Fessenden has done it again. The man has proven that you can't replace good old fashioned film making with CGI. He manages to throw some ingredients into the melting pot you'd never have thought would go together. The out and out tranquiulty of the landscape mixed with the crush of ice under foot brings arm in arm the underlying feeling of malice in the enviroment and a deep dread running almost as deep as the core of the earth.
This is horror. No doubt about it. But gore fans will be disappointed. It's more in the vein of the thing meets the shining rather than Jason X meets freddy in the Alaska.
The brilliant Ron Perlman is just as scary as any monster the horror genre could possibly throw at us at the moment. His intensity and 'whatever it takes' attitude towards the commension of drilling for oil is worrying to say the very least.
Not only should The Last Winter already have cult classic status but it should also serve as a wake up call concerning all global warming issues.
One little problem is that Fessendens ambition seems to much for his budget, which, i ask myself might actually have worked to his advantage.
"What is oil anyway?" asks Maxwell, the newbie at the ice station, rhetorically. "...it's just the dead bodies of animals and plants life from millions of ears ago..."
Leaves you asking... Why wouldn't the earth fight back against us for what we've done to it since the dawn of time?...Like it would any virus...
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