The Last
Winter
(2006, 107 mins, color, dr, Larry Fessenden)
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NOMINATED!
Best ensemble cast — 2007 Gotham Awards
One
of the Top 10 Fall Movies of 2007
Dennis
Harvey, SAN FRANCISCO GUARDIAN
One
of the Top 10 Movies of 2007
Jonny Butane, DREADCENTRAL.COM
Bill Chamber, FILMFREAKCENTRAL.NET
Evil Barnick, ICONSOFFRIGHT.COM
THESEVENTHARTFILM.COM
Aaron Hillis, CINEPHILLIAC.COM
"Best horror film of 2007"
Greg Lamberson, FEARZONE.COM
"quite simply one of the best films this decade"
Col. Scott W. Perry, COLONELSCRYPT.COM
"probably the most intelligent horror movie ever made"
Bob Brodmerkel, HORRORREVIEW.COM
"Larry
Fessenden is one of the most original voices to
emerge in the
horror field and THE LAST WINTER is his most accomplished work to date.
He brings the Gothic trappings of the old classics to shocking new life."
Guillermo
Del Toro (PAN'S LABYRINTH, HELLBOY)
"elegantly
restrained horror ... metaphorically resonant ... Feverishly Real, Terrifying.
Larry Fessenden is among the most thoughtful Americans
working on the lower-budget end of this oft-abused and mindlessly corrupted
genre."
Manohla Dargis,
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Profoundly,
metaphysically scary"
John
Anderson, FILM COMMENT
"Far
and away the scariest movie of the year - and certainly the smartest...
What we don't know, what we don't want to know, what we
can't figure out in time;
these are the true demons stalking "The Last Winter.""
Bob
Strauss, L.A. DAILY NEWS
"overpoweringly
eerie ... the claustrophobia-to-psychosis continuum is harrowingly fluid."
David Edlestein,
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"Fessenden
executes his ambiguities with great precision of mood and atmosphere"
Nathan Lee,
THE VILLAGE VOICE
"a
wicked atmosphere of claustrophobia materializes through Fessenden's cunning
sense of widescreen spatiality:
nightmarish empty corridors and elegantly swirling aerials ominously gazing
down from the skies.
This is filmmaking both gorgeous and deeply unsettling."
Aaron
Hillis
PREMIERE
"a
sharp, punishing and dismayingly believable pessimism
about the human condition that instils fright in its audience."
Patrick Z McGavin, SCREEN
DAILY
"taps
into a collective dread compounded by the guilt of our complicity.
The scrappy, familiar banality of Fessenden's vision -- the base camp
is a dump,
the crew unglamorous, their mission compromised -- only amps up the visceral
dread."
Carina
Chocano, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Fessenden
does wonders with fluid camerawork and music...
When the terror kicks it’s wonderfully disorienting and creepy.
A darkly poetic apocalyptic chiller"
Dennis
Dermody, PAPER MAGAZINE
"a
damn fine looking movie...striking and moody...
for those who like their horror to play with ideas and embrace
the ambiguous, THE LAST WINTER is a small gem"
Moriarty,
AINT
IT COOL NEWS
"mercilessly
tightens the screws...
develops an eerie intensity that builds to a boil and doesn’t
let up for the entire last act. "
Michael Gingold,
FANGORIA
“a somber horror film with a dour ending and social
message that, over time, may prove
to be closer to non-fiction drama than humanity might appreciate
—
a welcome entry into the enviro-horror cannon.”
Trevor Tuminski, RUE MORGUE
"Fessenden is
gifted, knowledgeable, keen--possibly a bit canted
in his choice of materials but an authentic, serious film-maker."
Stanley Kauffmann, THE NEW
REPUBLIC
"An odd blend of ellipticism and direct allegory"
Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
"a
powerful, unnerving, original, beautifully constructed
slice of disturbing, thought-provoking eco-horror "
RATING:
A
M.
J. Simpson
"an
elegiac piece of filmmaking"
Bill Chambers, filmfreakcentral.net
"serenely
creepy ... scary as fuck."
Scott
Foundas, LA WEEKLY
"situations
that reel out of control degree by methodical degree. "
Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
"Tense
and Exciting!
The film's real power comes from its building sense that
something really, really bad is about to happen...to all of us."
Andrew
O'Hehir, SALON
"Astonishing.
"... high-concept and low-budget, abstraction and
immediacy, the shopworn and the visionary ..."
Adam Nayman, CINEMASCOPE
"The
Last Winter blends science fiction with the supernatural
in a way that has rarely worked in films before—what binds these two
disparate approaches
is Fessenden's sense of the poetic."
Michael Marano, SCI-FI WEEKLY
"while
the movie's too genre-bound to climb into the cherry-picker with Al Gore,
it hints at a coming B-movie apocalypse: a rough beast freed by rising temperatures
and only now slouching home. In "The Last Winter," we meet the alien
and the alien is us."
Ty
Burr, THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Larry
Fessenden is a self-confessed horror filmmaker, and not only perhaps the greatest
one working today
—but also the most pointedly political, emotionally invested, and unguardedly
honest."
Andrew
Tracy REVERSESHOT
"The
horror genre would do right by embracing Fessenden,
a genuine heir to the throne built by the likes of Whale, Romero, and Cohen."
Collin
A, TWITCHFILM
"THE LAST WINTER is a stunning wake up call, a bold
exploration of the horror
of unchecked global warming that is sure to move new audiences to action."
Peter
Klebnikov, Editorial Director, Environmental Defense
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