Harbinger Down, a new indie in the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics such as Alien and The Thing, is finally set for release later this year.

Promising to be a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects, you can check it out in both Canada and the U.S. on August 7th with a DVD/VOD release set for September 1st.

Harbinger Down will celebrate animatronics and makeup effects via Creature FX Designer Alec Gillis, who wrote and directed, with ADI co-founder Tom Woodruff, Jr. producing the film.

In the creature feature, “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.”