The Last Winter
Rating (out of 5): ****
With rueful pleas for corporate regulation, doomsday global warming scenarios, references to Alaskan corruption and even an off the cuff remark about how fuel efficiency can be improved by adjusting tire pressure, The Last Winter is a supernatural horror film that provides us yet another lens to examine our national political conscious. Pitting blue state against red state in the form of male sexual jealousy it's to writer/director Larry Fessenden's great credit that he seems largely indifferent to humanity's unity or survival. Or, at the very least, takes great pleasure in ripping it to shreds (as any good horror director would).
The film opens with a jubilant internal corporate video (voiced by Patricia Clarkson) championing the success of opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling as a monumental human achievement. An only modestly exaggerated wink that none of this would be possible without a troubling intertwining of corporate greed and governmental corruption.
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