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Harbinger Down2015

Name: Harbinger Down
Genre: Monster & Creature, Body Horror, Sci-Fi Horror, Survival
Released: 2015-08-07
Rating: 4.7

“Terror is just beneath the surface”

Directed by Alec Gillis

4.7

Crypt Score

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IMDb 4.6Rotten Tomatoes 43%TMDB 4.5

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Year

2015

Runtime

82 min

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Deep in the frigid Bering Sea, a crab-fishing trawler becomes a floating deathtrap when its crew hauls up decades-old Soviet space wreckage still harboring something very much alive. What the Russians engineered from near-indestructible microscopic organisms has spent thirty years frozen — and it is ravenously ready to thaw out. With nowhere to run on the icy open water, crew and passengers must fight to survive an escalating biological nightmare. Practical creature effects take center stage in this old-school monster horror that wears its genre influences proudly.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Body Horror, Creature Attack Sequences