Dead Space: Downfall

Welcome to sci-fi anime blog, we just got a great new anime movie Dead Space Downfall. If you are into space horror, gore and gallons of blood, then this movie is unmissable to you. Even though this is a cartoon, most viewers will be overwhelmed with the violence in it. Just saying it is not for the weak.

The movie was based on a game Dead Space, by Electronic Arts. It is actually a prequel to the game's story. They show a lot of the stuff from the game, but also misses out on some. Directed by Chuck Patton who was behind Spawn series, G.I. Joe cartoons. Animated in Anchor Bay - ITN studios, where a lot of good action and horror movies come to life.

The story is not something you haven't seen before, so you won't see some deep messages or twisted plot-lines. It pretty straight forward.

In the 26th century, a deep space excavation colony discovers what is supposed to be a divine ancient artifact. Which they cut out from the planet along with a huge rock. As they are taking it back to earth for analysis, the crew members become extremely violent towards themselves and other crew members. Most of them say it is all to do with this artifact. See what happens further by yourself.

Characters aren't that good and don't have much depth to them. They do act tough and aggressive by using the F word extensively. We thought that monsters look better than our main characters. Even though there only few types of monsters shown, they are pretty grouse. A lot of scenes with corpses and scenes of many monsters attacking groups of people. It does feel like a real alien movie.

The animation is nothing special, simple use of CG environments with 2D drawn characters. The backgrounds look fine for a space ship covered in organic tissue and blood. We noticed a few unnecessary flips, unnecessary movement and images. This is all just to present a game, so there is no way to complain about anything here.

We didn't notice the sound track until our main character started to sing "Twinkle twinkle little star", that seemed a little cheap to us. Why did she sing that song is unknown to us. The sound effects were believable, the intense background music kept us interested in watching this film.

In short, the movie hits many spots for both science fiction anime fans and space horror fans. It is a prequel to a game of the same name. It doesn't bring anything new, but if you love third person shooters or know this game, you must watch it. It may not satisfy those who are looking for some deep story lines, but it is worth at least to rent. It does contain extreme violence, we recommend it to viewers over 18 only, and not with weak guts.

We hope that was informative to you, thanks for reading.