Harbinger Down


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.

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Now On DVD
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.

CATEGORY
Creatures

RELEASE DATE
August 7, 2015 (VOD)(Limited)
September 1, 2015 (DVD)
CURRENT STATUS
Now On DVD
LANGUAGE
English
PRODUCED BY
Dark Dunes Productions
Studio ADI
MPAA RATING
R "language and creature violence."
DIRECTED BY
Alec Gillis
WRITTEN BY
Alec Gillis
STARRING
Lance Henriksen
Camille Balsamo
Matt Winston
Reid Collums
Winston Francis
Mike Estime
Edwin H. Bravo
Milla Bjorn
Giovonnie Samuels
Kraig Sturtz
Jason Speer
Mick Ignis

PROJECT DETAILS
  • Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.
  • The directorial debut of FX creator Alec Gillis.
  • It's said that this film 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."
  • It's said to be in "the spirit of two of the greatest sci-fi/horror films of all time, Alien and The Thing."
  • 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, which eventually caught the eye of Sultan Saeed Al Darmaki, who funded the rest of the budget via his Dark Dunes Productions.
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