The Harbinger

There are flaws, sure, and logical lacunae here and there, but it lingers in the memory long after the final credits roll.

This one slips its claws under the skin and then refuses to retract, latching on in such a way that this vicious chiller leaves a lasting scar.

The Harbinger is the kind of horror movie that becomes personal for each viewer&#59; if one is not afraid of its story's more tangible concepts, Mitton does a credible and careful job of evoking the lasting ethereal ones.

Though their characters aren’t always fully realized in the writing, the actors make it all plausible by emphasizing an understated, everyday quality to figures that might easily have been played in more histrionic keys.

Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, this horror movie taps into our deepest, innermost thoughts and fears, zoning in on anxiety and isolation. The Harbinger uses a demon that appears in the characters dreams as a metaphor for the virus.

The Harbinger is great. It uses the still-present pandemic as a setting for elevated tension and mistrust, but at its core is a thoughtful and terrifying reflection of truly basic fears.

Successfully taps into the psychological distress felt during peak-Covid lockdowns in its telling of a horror story that cuts deep with masterful precision.

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 fears unleashed on people who seem real, make this a more pertinent horror pic--one that takes being alone as possibly too stressful for most people.

Andy Mitton milks disconnection and brews a lethal concoction of loneliness and despair. Drawing on loss and death and the dread of never seeing one’s own family again, the film feels like a raw scrape that hasn’t yet healed.