What separates The Harbinger from others, and elevates it beyond plaguesploitation, is how it understands inherent truths about our fears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2023

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.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 19, 2023

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2023

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.

| Dec 22, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2022

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.

| Original Score: B | Dec 16, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 15, 2022

[The Harbinger] finds universal messages about mortality and memory in the minutiae of pandemic life.

| Dec 9, 2022

The stand outs are the moody cinematography and the eminently focused performance by Gabby Beans. But the predominantly failed script shadowed over a concept that, if developed with more heart and insight, might have turned into a genuinely scary film.

| Dec 4, 2022

Someone has finally made a pandemic film that both taps into the universal fear of the moment and the unshakeable sense of futility felt by those of us who have yet to accept the lie that it's over.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 2, 2022

…The Harbinger resurrects the ambiguous sense of menace behind the plague doctor garb; it’s a disturbing, modern take on mythic horror, and one of the scariest films of the year…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2022

Despite the over-worked trappings of damn near every horror movie produced in the last two years The Harbinger is a scary good time. Look past the oh-so-familiar setup and you'll find a treasure-trove of nightmare imagery.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 2, 2022

Plays on the fears we all had during the height of the pandemic, using these cleverly to create a claustrophobic atmosphere of impending doom

| Oct 9, 2022

The Harbinger is the kind of horror movie that becomes personal for each viewer; 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.

| Sep 26, 2022

The Harbinger isn’t quite as emotional or as creepy as The Witch In The Window, but it will still go down a treat with horror fans who like their films with a bit more emotional attachment instead of just plain blood and gore.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2022

In The Harbinger, Mitton delivers a new Candyman/Freddy Krueger/Babadook myth for our time. A Pandemic on Elm Street, if you will.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2022

A timely work, it taps into the fears and vulnerabilities heightened by the pandemic.

| Aug 11, 2022

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.

| Aug 11, 2022

The Harbinger takes its characters down a very dark path, and I can’t promise you any happy endings, but this grim story offers an important reminder: we really need each other.

| Aug 2, 2022