Harbinger Down (2015)
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.
Watch Trailer
Cast
Similar titles
Reviews
While studying the effects of global warming on a pod of whales, grad students on a crabbing vessel and it's crew uncovers a froze soviet space shuttle, and unintentionally releases a monstrous organism from it. Harbinger Down is unfortunately a rip-off of the great 'The Thing' but also lacks any actual excitement in general. Lance Henrisken is the only good and experienced actor in the film but even he is just pretty forgettable as a whole. The special effects were pretty good but everything else? Were horrible and just terrible as a whole. (0/10)
I admit to having a huge love of John Carpenter's THE THING, a love which extends to the various THING rip-offs which have come out of the years. One of the cheaper of these is INANIMATE, a typical budget story in which a team of student researchers head into the frozen Bering Sea and discover a downed Russian spacecraft. It was originally launched as part of an experiment but has brought back something awful with it. The great thing about this predictable movie is the special effects, which look fantastic and were done without a single frame of CGI, something very rare in this day and age. The cast is nothing special, aside from reliable old-timer Lance Henriksen who actually gets plenty of screen time, which I was more than pleased about. The film is on the level of a typical B-movie but has enough suspense to see it through even if it is very familiar.
Have you seen John Carpenter's The Thing from 1984 and starring Kurt Russell? If so, then you've seen this film.This is almost an exact replica of that movie. Character names and the setting is different, but they're pretty much the same movie.That doesn't necessarily make this film bad, but because it's a copy of a more famous film, the natural tendency is to compare it to said film. That's where this movie fails. It doesn't capture the same atmosphere or mood. The acting isn't as good, and there are some logic problems with the plot.Still, if you're a horror fan you'll be entertained enough to make a viewing worthwhile. The cast does a decent job and it's still an interesting premise.
Greetings from Lithuania."Harbinger Down" (2015) is pretty much a much weaker rip-off / clone of "The Thing". Considering its small budget, i kinda enjoyed this flick for what it is. The creature itself was very "Thing-ish" - pretty creepy staff. Sure some of the characters kills off were way to chezee, but not also not that bad. The main reason i watched this flick were that i wanted to see some low-key horror flick and especially something with Lance Henriksen - i really like this actor, so basically i got what i asked for it - a low-key horror flick with Lance Henriksen - and it was pretty OK one.Overall, if you skip "Harbinger Down" you won't lose anything, as you have seen this movie many times if you like the genre and in much better form. Nevertheless i kinda enjoyed this movie, for what it is - it gave me what i expected and nothing more. Enjoyable, low- key genre flick, definitely not as bad as its rating says.