Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Fessenden, who directed, produced, cowrote, edited and even has a part in the film rightly values mood at least as much as he does delivering more abominable snow monsters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2007

The 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.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 12, 2007

Die-hard greenies may find this as unsettling as it's meant to be. For everyone else, it's closer to an atmospheric act of recycling.

| Original Score: B | Oct 10, 2007

The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 28, 2007

The Last Winter's heart is in the right place, but it isn't pumping any blood.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2007

It works eerily well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 28, 2007

It's the imaginative background, and Fessenden's talent at insinuating it into the action, that counts -- and unnerves -- in this most chilling of global-warming movies.

| Sep 25, 2007

Larry Fessenden has fashioned a different kind of horror movie here, one that moves at glacial speed, offers few scares and provides the viewer virtually no satisfaction.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

[It] accomplishes with a modest budget and a talented cast what bigger, slicker, gorier contemporary horror movies rarely do. It taps into a collective dread compounded by the guilt of our complicity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2007

Gruesome things happen in The Last Winter, but there's no gratuitous gore or torture, and the film's real power comes from its building sense that something really, really bad is about to happen.

| Sep 20, 2007

The acting's good, the camera work is haunting and [director] Fessenden continues to build his image as the thinking person's creepmeister.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 20, 2007

Ues conventional chills to create a surging diatribe on humanity(TM)s willingness to let nature fall into disarray.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2007

Something wicked this way comes in the nifty horror film The Last Winter, crawling through the hallways and howling into the dread night.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2007

...the film should please Fessenden's loyal followers and win him new ones.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2007

The Last Winter was shot in northern Iceland and Alaska, and despite some too-explicit imagery in the final moments, the claustrophobia-to-psychosis continuum is harrowingly fluid.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2007

What 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2007

An imperfect but compelling thriller.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2006

Idiosyncratic horror film mixes science and the supernatural.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2006