Live from Fantasia : The Last Winter

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The Last Winter (USA, 2007)
Director: Larry Fessenden

U.S. director Larry Fessenden uses his latest slow-burn thriller, The Last Winter, to deliver a message – If you fuck with nature, you will lose – and by lose I mean die.

Deep in the arctic tundra, a team of oil diggers slowly succumb to the hallucinatory effects of a mysterious gas seeping up from below the surface. As it turns out, this may be the least of their worries…

Using global warmimg as the foundation for this tale of psychological devastation, The Last Winter is, for most of it’s running time, an effective chiller (no pun intended). Unfortunately, the film’s climax places too much emphasis on the film’s allegorical symbol for nature’s wrath, a risky move which left this reviewer underwhelmed.

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