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Harbinger Down

  • 20152015
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  • 1h 22m
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Harbinger Down (2015)
Terror is Just Beneath the Surface
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  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
While studying the effects of global warming on a pod of whales, grad students on a crabbing vessel and its crew uncover frozen Soviet space shuttle and unintentionally release a monstrous o... Read allWhile studying the effects of global warming on a pod of whales, grad students on a crabbing vessel and its crew uncover frozen Soviet space shuttle and unintentionally release a monstrous organism from it.While studying the effects of global warming on a pod of whales, grad students on a crabbing vessel and its crew uncover frozen Soviet space shuttle and unintentionally release a monstrous organism from it.
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Alec Gillis
  • Writer
    • Alec Gillis
  • Stars
    • Lance Henriksen
    • Camille Balsamo
    • Matt Winston
Top credits
  • Director
    • Alec Gillis
  • Writer
    • Alec Gillis
  • Stars
    • Lance Henriksen
    • Camille Balsamo
    • Matt Winston
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 106User reviews
    • 58Critic reviews
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    Lance Henriksen in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Harbinger Down (2015)
    Lance Henriksen in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Camille Balsamo in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Reid Collums and Winston James Francis in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Lance Henriksen and Edwin R. Habacon in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Camille Balsamo and Milla Bjorn in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Matt Winston and Giovonnie Samuels in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Reid Collums, Camille Balsamo, and Winston James Francis in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Milla Bjorn in Harbinger Down (2015)
    Harbinger Down (2015)
    Camille Balsamo and Milla Bjorn in Harbinger Down (2015)

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    Lance Henriksen
    Lance Henriksen
    • Graffas Graff
    Camille Balsamo
    Camille Balsamo
    • Sadieas Sadie
    Matt Winston
    Matt Winston
    • Stephenas Stephen
    Reid Collums
    Reid Collums
    • Bowmanas Bowman
    Winston James Francis
    Winston James Francis
    • Guillaumeas Guillaume
    Milla Bjorn
    • Svetas Svet
    • (as Milla Björn)
    Giovonnie Samuels
    Giovonnie Samuels
    • Ronelleas Ronelle
    Michel Estime
    Michel Estime
    • Dockas Dock
    • (as Mike Estimé)
    Edwin R. Habacon
    Edwin R. Habacon
    • Atkaas Atka
    • (as Edwin Bravo)
    Kraig W. Sturtz
    • Rolandas Roland
    • (as Kraig Sturtz)
    Jason Speer
    • Sergei Petrovaas Sergei Petrova
    Morgana Ignis
    Morgana Ignis
    • Creature Suit Performeras Creature Suit Performer
    Lev Poberesky
    • Russian Voice #1as Russian Voice #1
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    Alla Poberesky
    • Russian Voice #2as Russian Voice #2
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      • Alec Gillis
    • Writer
      • Alec Gillis
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    • Trivia
      In 2010 Amalgamated Dynamics (ADI) was hired to create the practical monster effects for the film The Thing (2011). However much to ADI's dismay, the studio had the majority of their work digitally replaced with CGI for the final cut of the film. In response to this, ADI used Kickstarter to fund this film, Harbinger Down, which features entirely practical creature effects created through the use of animatronics, prosthetic makeup, stop motion and miniature effects. There are zero computer animated monsters in this film.
    • Goofs
      (at around 12 mins) When the crew of The Harbinger raise the 'object' shortly into the film, they claim it is encased in 'old ice' (due to the visible blue colour). Indeed, due to compression over many hundreds/thousands of years by 'newer ice' forming on top, this would be the case. However, according to the opening sequence; the object/craft in question crashed in 1982, and would unlikely have been there long enough for the necessary ice build-up and compression needed to give it the blue colour.
    • Quotes

      Graff: You're gonna need a bigger bucket.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Skin Wars: Man vs. Machine (2015)

    User reviews106

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    5/10
    Disappointing, but watchable
    This is a very uneven movie.

    On the one hand, it's not bad for an independent movie with a tiny budget. The settings is pretty nice and the actors are OK.

    The movie is an obvious reference to "The Thing" and it uses practical effects and no CGI. And here lies the first problem: The effects aren't impressive. From a company that deals with practical effects, which has some veteran effects guys and lots of experience, I expected more. A lot more. The effects here only show how amazing Rob Bottin's work was over 30 years ago. I also expected the effects to be a lot more explicit, yet I always got the feeling they try to hide them by shaking the camera, cutting, putting something in front, etc.

    The last problem has to do with direction: It's pretty obvious that this is the work of a first time director/writer - The movie is very uneven, there are good scenes and bad scenes, there are continuity problems, coverage problems, editing problems, things that simply don't connect and hard to understand what the director meant to do and also many scenes that seem to be missing a dialog.

    All in all, this is a so-so movie for something independent without a budget. I expected more and I'm a bit disappointed, but I'd still think it's worth a watch, at least for the effort.
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    • Release date
      • August 7, 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Facebook
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Trùng Quỷ
    • Filming locations
      • Chatsworth, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Studio ADI
      • Dark Dunes Productions
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $61,036
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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