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The Last Winter

2006 · 101 min

A slow-burn plunge into Arctic isolation where creeping dread and environmental guilt blur into hallucinatory horror.

Directed by: Larry Fessenden
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton

Tagline: What if mankind only had one season left on Earth?
Overview: In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.

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Directed by: Larry Fessenden
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
nature
guilt
survival
Places: wilderness
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	7
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	8
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: horror, thriller
Directed by: Larry Fessenden
Written by: Robert Leaver, Larry Fessenden
Starring: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Kevin Corrigan, Jamie Harrold, Pato Hoffmann, John Speredakos
Music: Jeff Grace
Cinematography: G. Magni Ágústsson
Runtime: 101 min
Country: Iceland, United States of America
Languages: English

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