The Last Winter: Who needs Spring?

Man, Larry Fessenden is about one film away from being added to my all-time favorite writer/directors list I have made up in my tiny mind. I haven't seen Habit yet, but it should be here any day now from Netflix, and I have a feeling that will be the film to do so, from what I'm reading about it. I really dug Wendigo, and The Last Winter just established my love for this man, an intellectual love! To tell you the truth, any director whose palette is a brooding wintry backdrop can pretty much count that I'm going to fall in love their film. The Last Winter has all the ingredients I love in a film. It's haunting, it's methodical, it's got that slow-paced brooding feel, an effective, haunting score, and creepiness. The backdrop as already established, is a desolate wintry landscape. The film centers on a remote drilling station and the men/woman who are there for the purpose of, well, drilling. As in Wendigo the film has some mythological undertones, but what's different with this one is that it's also has global warming as an ingredient. The films message from what I understand isn't HEY! stop fucking with earth, but more or less, this is a possibility. Ron Perlman of course is amazing. How can this man not be amazing? Some downfalls are that it does take about fifty minutes to really pick up, and some CGI used wasn't the greatest but it doesn't ruin the films strength in storytelling and spook factor. I'll definitely keep my eyes on Fressenden.