Connie Britton, one of the stars of The Last Winter, the just-released Larry Fessenden film, was interviewed on the radio program "Fair Game" last night. Britton played Sharon Gaines in the film Friday Night Lights (she appears in the television series as well). Her first film was indie fave The Brothers McMullen.

Host Faith Salie called The Last Winter "The Shining for environmentalists" (heeeeere's global warming!) and Britton concurred: "That's a great description...I've been calling it an environmental ghost story."

Friday Night Lights notwithstanding, Britton said she was not a football fan, and furthermore, she also wasn't "a big horror fan per se, but this movie is so interesting to me, and it was such a passion project for Larry...it's really a commentary on what we're doing to our earth and just suppose the earth really...came back and decided to have a little vengeance!"

But she noted that although recently seeing the final cut of The Last Winter "really creeped me out," it isn't truly a horror film, anyway, and it has much to offer an audience beyond the considerable scares. Shot in Iceland, "the photography in that movie is some of the most beautiful photography I've seen anywhere. It is just breathtaking, those Icelandic landscapes."

So, go for the thrills, stay for the vistas.