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The Last Winter [2006] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Larry Fessenden Actor: Ron Perlman Studio: Revolver Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£14.99~~ Buy New: £1.84 as of 22/11/2009 21:49 GMT details You Save: £13.15 (88%) New (15) Used (6) from £1.50 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 16 reviews Sales Rank: 38454 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 101 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060018489223 ASIN: B000R342UO Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: August 6, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 16 1 2 3 4 Next » "Do you see it!?!?" September 29, 2007 Mr. A. J. Quaeck (North Wales) 2 out of 3 found this review helpful 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. br /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. br / br /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. br / br /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. br / br /One little problem is that Fessendens ambition seems to much for his budget, which, i ask myself might actually have worked to his advantage. br / br /"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..." br / br /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... Thought provoking! May 13, 2008 Music lover. (England.) Well directed, brilliantly acted and filmed. Basically it seemed to be br /about the earth fighting back, maybe trying to shake off the humans br /responsible for seemingly devastating it. Very sad in this respect, but br /a movie that needs to be seen, hopefully to get people thinking about br /their impact as a collective mass that everyone is having on this poor br /planet we call home, often to the detriment of all other forms of life br /which have suffered terribly in one way or another, and I think this is br /what was being shown in the film, and the spirit of the earth and it's misplaced creatures rising up conveyed this message very well, though not in such detail as to spoil the mysterious effect but in ghostly ways that were just right, not too little and not too much, but just enough to get the message home to what it was really all about. Maybe the director had a different vision to what I am interpreting from what I have seen in it, but this is how it came across to me. br /Also a very beautiful film to look at in it's pristine whiteness of wilderness. br / CREEPY August 16, 2007 stuart (MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND) 13 out of 16 found this review helpful Larry Fessenden is someone to watch. With first Wendigo and now this, he should be on everyone's cinematic radar- having demonstrated a unique voice, a refusal to do things the way others do them and delivering two absolute masterpieces in a row. br / br /Fessenden has a particular eye, a genuinely unnerving sense of pace and an approach to film-making that seems out of it's time. I can't tell if it's the depth of his characters, the measured beats of the screenplay, the great hollows of silence on the soundtrack or the straightforward refusal to write gags into his movies that does it, but it's like he's making movies for smart adults in a genre where such things are rare. And thank god for that, because this world could use some more Larry Fessendens to balance it out. br / br /Briefly, Ron Perlman is a hard-bitten Oil Prospector working in the Arctic Tundra. He has to get the big machines in, so that drilling can begin- but the weather's shot to hell and Company-employed Environmentalist Hoffman won't sign the right papers. And something's out there in the wilderness. Something that drives men mad and may have doomed them all. br / br /No spoilers here- see it 'cold' (if you'll pardon the pun). If you need it to be categorised, then imagine Kubrick's The Shining, crossed with Carpenter's The Thing, mixed up with Fessenden's own Wendigo sauce. It's a brutal, lyrical screenplay, using some fine actors and glorious cinematography- and it'll creep under your skin. Oh, just see it! Maybe that way, he'll make some more... Winter horror land. November 22, 2007 russell clarke (halifax, west yorks) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful The Last Winter is a curious mixture of psychological horror and eco-thriller. Writer , director and indeed actor Larry Fessenden has created a movie that is difficult to categorise and that poses a startling question. Is there a point at which mother nature -or what ever moniker you wish to use- will start viewing humanity as a virulent virus and seek to wipe us off the face of the earth? br /Set in the artic region of Northen Alaska a team of oil drilling contractors are surveying the area in order to prepare for the eventual expolitation of the oilfields there. The teams leader Ed Pollack( Ron Perlman) is a brash loud get the job done type of guy and this leads to conflcit with Hoffman( James LeGros), an enviromental consultant employed by the oil comapny to weigh the enviroemntal concerns with the corporate desire to secure "energy independance" ( A token gesture) who is worried that the area is showing signs of enviromental depreciation. Their emnity is not helped by Hoffmans romantic involvement with Abby ( Connie Britton) another member of the crew who had previously been involved with Pollack. br /Meanwhile the crews youngest member Maxwell ( Zach Gifford) starts to act with increasing eccentricity , muttering darkly about things on the ice until he wanders off alone and more worringly unclothed one night. Then things start to get really weird and it becomes increasingly apparent the team are in under attack from forces they cannot comprehend br /The Last Winter is no slam bang gorefest .It has an intermiable insidious atmosphere, slowly escalating the tension and dread through portentous omens- sudden gusts of wind, ravens circling ominously and the indiginous foreboding frigid landscape until the moment the inhabitants of the station realise they are in a fight for survival.The ending is powerfully ambiguous and Fessenden allows his camera to prowl and swoop like a natural predator stalking its prey. There is a precision and ecomomy both to the script and the screenplay -indeed it,s only in the revelation of the nature of the threat that the film loses focus , and here it reminds me forcibly of the creature that inhabits Dan Simmons book "The Terror" which is tied in with native mythology . br /A clever and absorbing film The Last Winter is more an exercise in creepy psychological terror than a committed horror film and its one that admirably refuses to pander to it,s audiences expectations with it,s final frame an audacious exercise in minimalism. And its enviromental message , based on hard fact( The permafrost surrounding Alaska and Canada is melting even as i write) is actually more powerful than any amount of statistics and hysterical hectoring. br / br / Chilling Chamber Piece February 28, 2008 Zaploosh (London, UK) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful 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. Showing reviews 1-5 of 16 1 2 3 4 Next »

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