
The American oil company North Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seeking oil. The independent environmentalists together with the base leader, Ed Pollack, reach an agreement with the government, approving procedures and reports of the operation. When a team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman suspects that gases may have been accidentally released from the drill site provok... (Full plot summary below)
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The American oil company North Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seeking oil. The independent environmentalists together with the base leader, Ed Pollack, reach an agreement with the government, approving procedures and reports of the operation. When a team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman suspects that gases may have been accidentally released from the drill site provoking hallucinations and insanity in the group. After a second fatal incident, he convinces Ed to travel with the team to a hospital for examination, however, people continue to die.
Leave your thoughts about The Last Winter.
| CinerinaKarina MontgomeryCome for the eerie unworldly menace, but stay for the well-balanced currents of terror that manages to sustain itself throughout the film. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineThe film deserves attention, not just because of its important global warming message but as a genre piece done a little more intelligently. |
| Baret NewsPrairie MillerAn eco-supernatural dreamscape companion piece to Al Gore's cautionary doc, An Incovenient Truth, and a thinking man's figurative and literal sub-Arctic chiller with a turbulent character-driven indie soul. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThis message hangs over the entire film... but Fessenden still manages to craft an intense and effective thriller. |
| New York PressEric KohnUes conventional chills to create a surging diatribe on humanityâ(TM)s willingness to let nature fall into disarray. |
| Slant MagazineNick SchagerWhat 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. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThe problem is that the ghostly culprit, some sort of nature spirit, isn't nearly as terrifying as the arguments that Pollack makes, or the fact that the ice in such places really is weakening. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasFessenden's best film and a huge turning point for him as a filmmaker, promising even stronger work to come. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's a pro-environmental apocalyptic shocker that works as a thinking man's ghost story pic. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectA horror movie about the consequences of global warming. Set in the Alaskan Wildlife Natural Reserve, the oil company is far scarier than the monsters that attack the movie's main characters. |