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One of the scariest movies to come out in a long time.. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Goblins of global warming Oil-drilling crew confronts fear in an Arctic out of balance October 12, 2007, BY JOHN MONAGHAN, FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER:
Larry Fessenden understands that sometimes the scariest things on screen are those you can't see. He proved this in 2001's "Wendigo" and he does it again in his equally nifty, low-budget horror thriller "The Last Winter." The story of an Arctic oil drilling team plagued by creatures from the permafrost combines the global warnings of "An Inconvenient Truth" with the genuine chills of "The Thing."

Actually, things aren't very frosty in the Alaskan outpost where Ed (Ron Perlman of "Hellboy"), company man for North Industries, tries to strong-arm Hoffman (James LeGros), an environmental researcher who knows that wildly fluctuating temperatures aren't going to support the big rigs Ed wants moved over ice. Meanwhile, team members start acting stranger and stranger, wandering around in their birthday suits and insisting that they see ghostly creatures in the snow squalls. Could this be gas seeping through the melting ice and messing with their heads or actually monsters out to get revenge on those drilling in the once-protected region? Before answering, "The Last Winter" spends considerable time on developing relationships, a rarity in movies like this. 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.
Contact freelance writer JOHN MONAGHAN at madjohn@
earthlink.net.

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Sounds more interesting than most of what Hollywood produces.

Hmm...