It’s currently -42°C where I live. It looks like there’s fog everywhere, but I think that’s just the air freezing. It’s a hoar frost apocalypse and death is inevitable. So I’m hunkering down beside a space heater and taking as many warm baths as I can before the hot water pipes freeze up because if I dare to venture outside, something like what you see on the cover of The Last Winter could happen to me. Probably in a matter of minutes. It chills my nerves just thinking about it. Although, freezing temperatures aren’t really an issue in this movie (it’s the warming weather that seems to be causing all the horrific problems), but north is north and snow is snow and bad things always happen in the north in the snow.

I told you about The Thaw not too long ago, and The Last Winter is quite similar in its global warming message, which is making a lot of headlines lately thanks to those scientist’s e-mails. Well, whether you believe global warming to be a hoax or not, it makes a viable movie plot line. Instead of unleashing a prehistoric parasite like it did in The Thaw however, global warming has somehow unleashed what is perhaps best described as ghosts of nature very intent on halting the progress of an oil company looking to drill in a remote part of Alaska. The team of drillers, led by Ed Pollack (Ron Perlman of Hellboy), and a couple of environmentalists overseeing the operation to make sure it’s all on the up and up, face unusual warm weather patterns and strange occurrences, both of which make it hard to get any work done. Or survive.

This movie is a tree-hugger’s delight (you know, with the environmentalists pushing for inflated tires instead of oil consumption) so if you lean to the right, you may not feel it too much. It’s also got plenty of those actors that’ll make you say, “Oh, that guy” (who are nicely stereo-typically cast to boot). When you get right down to it, it’s a boring movie, not much happens, but its tedium is saved by a solid pace, which makes it watchable. I can’t say there’s much horror, but it is creepy at times (see frozen dude in picture), and unfortunately, like most movies with supernatural entities, it lost me when they showed the ghost. I’d really rather prefer these ghosts remain mysteries and not have them ruined by CGI tomfoolery. But so it goes.

I know it wouldn’t be the best thing for the Earth if winter went away, but on a day like today, I wouldn’t mind that possibility one bit. Now, stay warm and check out the trailer for The Last Winter!