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SYNOPSIS: Thawed from ice after three decades, mutated creatures recovered from a piece of Soviet space wreckage terrorize a group of graduate students on a fishing trawler. REVIEW:

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of grad students have booked passage on the crabbing boat Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Belugas in the Bering Sea. But the ship’s crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, and things get extremely deadly afterwards.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the alien attack on the mining ship Nostromo, awakens half a century later when she is found by a salvage ship. The welcome given to her by the company officials is far from warm, since they refuse to believe her discovery of alien existence and strip her off her flight …

SYNOPSIS: “The evil tyrant Sador and his army of the mutants Malmori threatens the peaceful Akira farmers of the planet Akir with his Stellar Converter weapon and tells that he will return to collect their harvest. The former Akira warrior Zed advises that they should hire mercenaries to protect them from Sador and offers his spaceship to seek them out. …

As the year 2015 comes to a close, I think about all of the really good films I’ve seen over the past 12 months, and I smile to myself contently. But thinking of the good ones inevitably leads me to think about the bad ones, and my smile turns upside down into a frown. This year there happened to be …

Alec Gillis makes his directorial debut with “Harbinger Down” starring Lance Henriksen, Camille Balsamo, Matt Winston, Reid Collums and Milla Bjorn. Gillis spoke with me for a Horrornews.net exclusive. He talked about making an incredible film as almost a tribute to the great 80’s Horror of the past and working with the legendary Mr. Robin Williams. How did you come …

Alec Gillis knows his Monsters. The creator of Pumpkinhead, the Graboids from Tremors, and the Aliens and Predators for the last 20 years, Gillis has been busy. He came up in the school of Special Effects hard knocks, and now he’s calling the shots as co owner of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. Having worked for ADI, I know the pains of being under the …