You guys, I am kind of excited about this one.

Harbinger Down came out in early August, but I still have not had a chance to catch it yet. However, it is right up my alley.

The film is about a group of grad students that 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 three decades, the creatures aren’t about to give up the warmth of human companionship.

Alec Gillis’s Harbinger Down stars Lance Henriksen, and is the all Practical Effects (PFX) creature film the fans have asked for. Funded through Kickstarter and Dark Dunes Productions, Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. of StudioADI present an alternative to big studio CGI-driven genre films.

I mean, really, how can you go wrong with an all practical effects film?

Check out the trailer:

We’ll have a review up soon, but in the mean time, be sure to check out this return to form for practical effects for yourself!