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)

It's "The Thing" on a boat. a sentence like that can either be the beginning or the end of someone's interest in the film, entirely dependent not on it being "'The Thing' on a boat" but on what it does with itself. And in this case, it did nothing. LESS than nothing, if you use "The Thing" as a jumping off point; it has all the standard elements of "The Thing" except for the disguised-as-human-paranoia, so it was essentially just "The Thing" without any of the mystery or psychological horror

My verdict: Not good nor bad, I would call it an okay-movie. Good enough for watching one time - if you like movies like Carpenters The Thing. The movie is clearly a homage (or rip-off) to Carpenters movie, even the "monster" got a similar look of the original from 1982. What Harbinger Down really lacks imo is suspense - the movie just runs down the path of this kind of movies straight and nothing, and I mean really nothing unexpected happens at all. Another point why Harbinger Down can't catch up to The Thing - the characters are shallow and boring so you can't really connect to them (at least I didn't) and if one dies you really don't bother at all. Anyway, connoisseurs of the genre may dare a look.

I understand what the director was trying to accomplish but this movie just did not come together - there was no sum of its parts.The movie premises was good if not a little similar to The Thing. However the acting was terrible......the actors filled one dimensional boxes of characters they portrayed and I found that the lead actress was this stone faced block. Others looked like they were being told what to do behind the camera. It just did not seem natural.The monster...........instead of being aggressive and sneaky it just likes to hide in dark spaces and that's what it does for the most part of the film - the design of he monster was well did not really make sense. Part human, part fish part plant....it was like some bad 80's B movie.Lastly this movie has no suspense - the main ingredient needed for good horror movies. Its obvious what the monster is, where the monster is. Ultimately at the end I really felt I had watched a bad 80's horror B movie.