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)

A group of college students wanting to study the effects of global warming find themselves aboard a massive fishing trawler with Captain Graff (Lance Henriksen) and his crew made up of crude malcontents. Something very mysterious is discovered deep below the surface in the icy Bering Sea. When brought up it is judged to be a failed Russian space probe, when thawed out bio-hazard hell is released. Locked in the ice for three decades are rapidly mutating organisms that create a creature that enjoys playing with its nourishment. Terror, suspense, chomp, chomp, goo, guts and gore. Low budget fun.The cast also features: Camille Balsamo, Giovonnie Samuels, Reid Culloms, Milla Bjorn, Michael Estime, Matt Winston and Jason Speer.

Harbinger Down reminded me strongly of The Thing released few years ago but not as well done or creepy. It has major actors like Lance Henriksen(from the Alien movies) as the captain of the trawler Harbinger but I think he'd have been kinda disappointed too with how the movie turned out. It starts well with the tension of things to come but post the alien creature attacks its first human victim in the ship, the scare factor is predictable and the jumps hardly startle you except in the initial scenes. The actors are OK. Save Lance, the rest of the performances are mostly average. For a horror thriller, the story had good potential - a large trawler in the icy seas with few graduate students, a professor and the trawler crew who accidentally discover a Soviet space vessel below the sea with a dead pilot in it...but the end result was above average at best. A one-time watch, with your soda and chips.

You can catch this on Netflix. If you've got nothing better to do, go ahead and watch. This is a definite attempt at John Carpenter's "The Thing". The monster is a virus type thingy that grows and can shape shift. It takes out the drama of it shifting into human form. It just goes from monster to liquid and back again. Everything is moderate for this movie from acting to script to special effects. The budget was probably pretty low, so take that into account. To top it all, the ship was supposed to explode at the end and it doesn't so you can add editing issues to the list. The monster is kind of fun to watch, but not overly scary.