'The Harbinger' attempts to mix a pandemic with the paranormal, but ultimately falls flat.
As we all seek to make meaning out of the unimaginable death toll of the still ongoing pandemic that has forever reshaped the world as we know it, art is one of the primary places we turn to. It can be reflective, challenging, and even revealing about the collective trauma we are facing. There have been a whole host of films that have tried to grapple with this, a few insightfully and most very much less so.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY It begins with the troubled Mavis who is having a near breakdown in the confines of her Queens apartment. It is more than just the pandemic as something sinister is coming to haunt her in her dreams. When a building manager checks in on her, she says that she has basically no one to turn to. This is both because her family is “on lockdown all the way in Seattle” and also likely wouldn’t come to see her anyway even if it was deemed safe.
There is an element of the film that almost feels like a time capsule of those early days of fear and uncertainty. Both quiz each other on whether they can remove their masks, needing to hear from the other that they have both been limiting their potential exposure. When Monique first arrives at the apartment, there is a child that is coughing and who she makes eye contact with for a brief moment.
This is all rather unfortunate as there are some rather striking scenes that are genuinely well-constructed. Nightmares are great cinematic fuel for playing around with haunting imagery and there were moments in The Harbinger that really catch your attention. One noteworthy one comes in the confines of a truck and a silent figure whose design will leave your skin crawling. Even as you can tell that they are working within the confines of a budget, it still leaves an impact.
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. Horror as metaphor like this is completely fair game, though the film remains uncertain of how to fully convey the emotion of each situation. The pandemic was and still is a nightmare, full of constant terror that we could be wiped from existence forever.
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