Harbinger Down Guide

Founders Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. were hired for the 2011 prequel to The Thing . After they spent months creating intricate practical creatures, the studio replaced their work with CGI in post-production.

Inside are mutated tardigrades —microscopic organisms that have evolved into a shapeshifting biomass after exposure to cosmic radiation. Harbinger Down

The crew dredges up a frozen block of ice containing old Soviet space wreckage. Founders Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr

A group of graduate students books passage on the crabbing trawler Harbinger to study global warming in the Bering Sea. Harbinger Down

The film is often described as a trapped inside a mediocre movie .