Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter may have been onto something. Take the nearly universally loved vibe from John Carpenter's The Thing, namely horror and a deep freezing locale (a popular combo these days used also in the two vampire flicks 30 Days of Night and Frostbite), and impregnate it with timely environmental subtext. I don't know if Canadian produced horror film will go as high brow as Fessenden apparently went with it, but dang, the thing has got a Woolly Mammoth in it, and that is all good. Director Mark A. Lewis has only one other feature under his belt, the poorly received Paul Campbell drama (and ominously named) Ill Fated, but I've got high hopes that this could be a great addition to growing Canadian sci-fi genre (see also Splice), after all the same company as Andrew Currie's well received Fido is behind the thing.

A deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization. One-by-one they are infected and one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground... including themselves.