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This Memorial Day weekend I watched a few movies. The most memorable being The Last Winter directed by Larry Fessenden with Ron Perlman and James LeGros starring. I had read a good review about it in EW magazine and had waited a while for it to come out. It sucks how those independent films always take forever to come out on DVD after they leave theaters. And they aren’t ever in theaters long enough to see them either. A week tops where I live. Be Kind Rewind was only in theaters for a week; so sad and such a great movie too.

But anyways…so the movie starts out with a lot of artistic white-out shots of the tundra in Alaska; beautiful filming with little images here and there of the cast on snowmobiles. It slowly picks up with the cast filing into place in the plot, and I can’t say that the character dynamic isn’t predictable but still it manages to keep your attention with the slight sense of something being eerie about the setting and the characters being there.

The general reasoning for these people being in the middle of nowhere is oil, and lots of it. The characters are divided by the “greenies” or the environmentalists hired by the oil company and the oil company employees. I wasn’t really expecting the plot to go the way that it did, it twists from being eerie to down right creepy with the simple matter of a home made video tape (that just so happens to have nudity - R- rated). From there things start to fall apart for everyone, and I mean everyone.

My only complaint about this great film was the villains (or their visual attributes at least). Seemingly to me a kid pencil drawing but then again were they even there to begin with or just the mind playing tricks? The movie never says for sure only that something caused the deaths. Gas from the ground? Creatures? Who knows…Crazy either way. It was a great movie with an original concept. Fresh and beautifully shot. I really liked it.