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Harbinger Down

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Thawed from ice after three decades, mutated creatures recovered from a piece of Soviet space wreckage terrorize a group of graduate students on a fishing trawler.
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Joe Leydon Variety 08/07/2015
Ranks somewhere between self-consciously cheesy SyFy Channel fare and better-than-average direct-to-video product. Go to Full Review MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher 11/10/2020
Bad acting and atrocious dialogue is topped only by the cheap shoddiness of the practical FX this demo-reel flick is meant to show off. Better they'd remained unseen. Go to Full Review Brad Miska Bloody Disgusting 04/07/2017
I really wanted to like Harbinger Down, but felt burned out by the end credits. It's a bleak, tiring and vanilla creature feature that's sadly forgettable. I don't recommend going down with the ship. Go to Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed 08/13/2015
A really solid and above average debut from Alec Gillis. Go to Full Review Scott Weinberg Nerdist 08/13/2015
Simplistic and obvious, but it also does a fine job of emulating the late-'80s monster movies we all know and love. Go to Full Review Matt Donato We Got This Covered 08/07/2015
5/10
Harbinger Down brings the monstrous goods as expect, yet struggles to tell a coherent story that's worth the practical effects success. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Jeepers C @RT12312147 Jun 21 This is a low budget The Thing movie. The story is solid. The effects don't come close to The Thing, but still worth a watch. See more Brad S. R @RT07389644 Apr 2 The effects are beautiful, but the narrative is so riddled with movie clichés that it makes it difficult to enjoy Studio ADI's exercise in practical effects. See more Darren D @DarrenJD 12/24/2024 Kind of well-known that Amalgamated Dynamics were hired to create the practical monster effects for the The Thing (2011), & felt screwed over by the studio, when their work got digitally replaced with CGI. Well, "Harbinger Down" is their kickback against what happened & very much a movie made out of anger, from a team trying to prove a point. It's a Kickstarter movie & it shows. It's shot like a movie that on budget & time restrictions, as would should've been promo for the teams practical creature effects created from animatronics, stop motion & miniature effects, is shot in a manner that doesn't allow their work to live on screen. See more David E @RT53915460 10/22/2024 Tried to watch, had to give up after only 15 minutes. Bad dialogue, bad acting, unlikeable characters, annoying feminism. All males act like complete schmucks, all females are condescending. Root for the monster. A total stinker. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 07/26/2024 Acting as redemption for 2011’s prequel to The Thing. This movie (which was backed by Kickstarter) had some great effects and not so great effects, an generic script and one dimensional characters and some wooden performances See more allen p @AllenP 08/20/2021 Like everyone else, I wanted to see this movie because of all the special effects. I had no problem with the dialogues being stupid, the actors being mediocre at best, the plot being written by a 10-year-old ("hey we have a space creature on the boat, let's open it without any protective clothing, or any protective measures at all") - but the special effects were actually not at all convincing, rather looked cheap. Really a shame. Still suitable for those who like 80's nostalgia. (Allen P, Sweden) See more Read all reviews
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Alec Gillis

Director

Lance Henriksen

Graff

Camille Balsamo

Sadie

Matt Winston

Stephen

Reid Collums

Bowman

Milla Bjorn

Svet

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Movie Info

Synopsis Thawed from ice after three decades, mutated creatures recovered from a piece of Soviet space wreckage terrorize a group of graduate students on a fishing trawler.
Director
Alec Gillis
Producer
Camille Balsamo, Hadeel Reda, Benjamin L. Brown, Doug Scroggins III
Screenwriter
Alec Gillis
Distributor
Vertical Entertainment
Production Co
Dark Dunes Productions
Rating
R (Language|Creature Violence)
Genre
Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 7, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 5, 2016
Runtime
1h 22m
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