Review – The Last Winter

Every time I’m just about ready to swear off indie horror movies for good, something like this comes along and temporarily restores my faith in the potential of the sub-genre. On the surface this comes across as a blend of The Thing and An Inconvenient Truth. But it’s more than that, to the point where some parts are actually scary. The story posits that the damage humanity has done to the environment has provoked the earth into a supernatural counter-attack, which begins at a small outpost of oil company explorers in the Alaskan wilderness. The picture has a plot, multi-dimensional characters, and special effects that are employed subtly to much greater effect than if they’d been constantly in-your-face. This was a total impulse rent at Blockbuster. If only I could be so lucky every time I pick a movie this way! Worth seeing