Horror goes green in The Last Winter

With its slow pace, beautiful cinematography and twist on genres, The Last Winter, most-likely a pioneer in the green horror movie sub-genre, was closer to Werner Herzog's cinema than to a previous similar attempt to mix ecology and genre -- I'm of course talking about the action pudding On Deadly Ground starring our favorite buddhist/guitarist/karateka.
While highly intriguing and addicting, The Last Winter would have gained in strength by avoiding some cliches of the genres - do we really need to see scenes already featured prominently in 28 Days, Resident Evil and The Thing?