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''Harbinger Down'' is a 2015 American independent science-fiction monster horror film written and directed by Alec Gillis and produced by Tom Woodruff, Jr.; the founders of the special effects company StudioADI. The plot of the film follows a group of graduate students aboard the titular fishing trawler ''Harbinger'' who are studying the effects of global warming on a pod of Belugas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew discover a block of ice that is infected with alien bacteria, they are attacked by shapeshifting alien monsters. Funded by fan donations through Kickstarter, the film predominantly features practical creature effects created by ADI through the use of animatronics, prosthetic makeup, stop motion and miniature effects, with limited use of computer generated imagery, used only to enhance creature effects (such as to digitally erase wires and gimbals used to articulate the creatures). Harbinger Down is streaming on Netflix from November 1st, 2015. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Titles on Netflix US (Nov 1) )〕 ==Plot== In 1982, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in the Bering Sea. In 2015, graduate students Ronelle and Sadie join their professor, Stephen, on an experiment to study the effects of global warming on whales. Sadie's grandfather, Graff, takes them to sea in his commercial fishing trawler, ''Harbinger'', which is crewed by Bowman, Big G, Dock, Svetlana, and Atka. Sadie declines when Graff encourages her to helm the boat, as she has lost her nerve since losing her father at sea. After meeting the crew, Sadie, Ronelle, and Stephen go to sleep. That night, Sadie wakes as the crew catch a load of fish. Detecting that there is whale activity in the area, Sadie unsuccessfully attempts to wake the others, then investigates on her own. She is intrigued when she finds something large under the ice, and the crew help her to recover what proves to be a crashed Soviet, now frozen in ice. Ronelle and Stephen are woken by the commotion, and Stephen excitedly claims ownership of the shuttle. Graff disputes his claim, and says the Russians will want their shuttle back. Sadie points out that the object was the property of the now nonexistent Soviet Union, and therefore maritime salvage law would give them the rights to it. Graff infuriates Stephen further by declaring that it belongs to Sadie. Ronelle tries to contact her sister Tamara to tell her about what they found to no avail. Bowman encourages Sadie to investigate the shuttle before Stephen can find a way to claim it for himself. Bowman recruits Big G to distract Stephen while Sadie sneaks off. She discovers that the Soviet cosmonauts died of an unknown infection and takes a sample to analyze. Stephen becomes further frustrated when he learns she has examined the shuttle before him. He threatens to destroy her career unless she signs over the discovery to him; though Graff threatens to take the issue to the courts, Sadie gives in. Meanwhile, Sadie learns that the shuttle was carrying tardigrades, a hardy lifeform that can survive in extreme conditions. However, cosmic radiation has caused them to mutate and become able to shapeshift. When one of the cosmonaut bodies goes missing, Stephen accuses Sadie of moving or hiding it. She denies this, and Bowman defends her. When Stephen only becomes more belligerent, Graff threatens him. While examining the shuttle, Stephen becomes contaminated with the mutated tardigrades, who parasitically take over his body. After he staggers onto the freezing cold deck and begins to strip naked, the others drag him back in, after which several tentacles sprout from his body and spray the area with spores. Dock is hit more than the others, but Sadie confirms that they are all potentially contaminated. They freeze Stephen's body and the shuttle with liquid nitrogen. Dock soon shows signs of infection, and Svetlana insists on incinerating him. The others object until Dock also sprouts tentacles-like growths. They are surprised when the tardigrades cut the ship's power. As they work to restore it, the organism kills Atka, and Svetlana reveals that she is a Russian spy. Holding Sadie, Bowman, Big G, Ronelle and Graff hostage, she explains that the tardigrades were part of a Soviet experiment to breed radiation-resistant humans. She does not want to reclaim the shuttle but instead desires to sink the boat after being picked up by a nearby submarine. Before she can kill her hostages, however, the organism attacks, causing Svetlana to lose her gun. Ronelle attempts to grab the gun but she grabbed by the crature, which pulls through the pipes and presumbly kills her. When Svetlana tries to reason with the others she to is grabbed by the creature. The survivors, Graff, Sadie, Bowman, and Big G, search for several explosive charges that Svetlana hid throughout the ship. The last few are hidden in the bilge, a tight area only Sadie can access. As she collects the explosives, the others discover that the tardigrades have consumed and absorbed their latest catch, a ton of fish. As they call down to warn Sadie, she realizes she is standing amid the tardigrades. Although she escapes, Graff is infected. He instructs Big G to restart the ship and Sadie to steer it before asking Bowman to kill him. Big G restarts the ship but dies battling Svetlana's possessed and mutated body. After Bowman also dies, Graff instructs Sadie to scuttle the ship and save herself. She steers it into an iceberg, and barely escapes before the explosives sink it. The US Coast Guard alert her that a rescue helicopter has been deployed to rescue her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harbinger Down」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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