With The Harbinger, Andy Mitton depicts a world where closeness to others is everyone’s undoing, which turns a standard haunting tale into a profound time capsule of modern dread.
The Harbinger
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United States · 2022
1h 26m
Director Andy Mitton
Starring Stephanie Roth Haberle, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Gabby Beans
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Monique ventures out of COVID quarantine to visit an old friend in New York who’s plagued by nightmares she can’t wake up from. But the nightmares, and the dark force behind them who takes the form of a plague doctor, prove as contagious as any deadly virus.
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There is a good film in The Harbinger that we catch glimpses of in moments of horror and the conversations we do get to see play out. It just is struggling to break through the uncertain confines of the story it is trapped in.
The Harbinger disappoints only in that it’s good enough to make you wish it were better — that it left an indelible impression rather than a slightly vague one.
The Harbinger is observant, relatable, scare-ya-silly horror. Andy Mitton uses ominous imagery, sorrowful atmospheres, reliable templates, and resonating paranoias to so effortlessly hit upon those feelings we all felt under lockdown: insignificance, loneliness, and worst of all, our social disappearance.
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