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List Price: $26.97 | | Label: Anchor Bay - ITN
Salesrank: 23472
Released: October 28, 2008 |
| Our Price: $5.92 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Dead Space is a feature length horror sci-fi animated movie based on the much anticipated Electronic Arts video game title streeting Halloween 2008. When a deep space mining operation discovers a mysterious alien Marker they believe they have finally found evidence of our creators. However, the removal of the Marker unleashes a horrific alien species, which had been entombed within a remote planet, and a desperate fight for survival ensues. The story follows a select group of miners and crewmembers, as they are confronted with an evil like none ever encountered by man. The Dead Space animated feature serves as a prequel to the game and takes adult animated horror to a whole new level.
Description of Dead Space: Downfall:
Dead Space: Downfall serves as a prelude to the popular Electronic Arts video game. In the distant future, the crew of the ship Ishimura discovers a mysterious artifact on a barren planet "several million light years" from Earth. Members of the Unitologist Church believe it's a holy object that will help humans overcome death. Hidden within it are monsters who take over the crew's bodies, mutate into grotesque beasts, and attack everything in sight. Although tough-as-press-on-nails security chief Alissa Vincent leads a bloody battle against the aliens, the entire crew is transmogrified and/or devoured: The stage is set for Isaac Clarke to board the remains of the Ishihara and kick some alien butt. As a film Dead Space: Downfall makes little sense. What did the aliens live on before the humans arrived? Why is their body chemistery perfectly attuned to homo sapiens? Why do church members regard the artifact as holy when no one's seen it before? Fans of the game may be willing to overlook the incoherent story, stolid direction, and uninspired animation that apes anime. Uninitiated viewers should look elsewhere for entertainment. (Unrated: Suitable for age 16 and older: extensive profanity, gore, grotesque imagery, nudity, graphic violence, including violence against women) --Charles Solomon
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Dead Space: Downfall Reviews:
Awesome movie for an Awesome game. 
2009-12-19 - its too bad this video isnt introduced before you play dead space, the movie is full of action packed suspense and gore, but its not cheesy or dull in any way.Personally I had fun, kinda like a roller coaster, fun all the way through. If your a fan of the game or violent animated movies I would reccomend dead space downfall.
warning: The movie does contain alot of graphic violence and gore as well as vulgar language.This movie is definitly not for kids and adults only.
Not much else to say other than I thought the animation was good, story was pretty good, action was good.
This movie is literally over the top in terms of gore for an animated movie, I havent seen so much blood since watching princess mononoke...not reccomended for the faint of heart or depressed person.Im going to also say insomniacs stay away.
The animation is traditional, no cg whatsoever(if your like me and have a special appreciation for trad animation)
So many bad reviews im going to say you either didnt watch the whole thing, you havent played the game, your not that into animated/gore movies.
5/5 from me, voice acting was good kind of like a saturday morning cartoon except for adults. On a positive note, after you watch this movie you cant help but crave the need to play the game.
Good movie. 
2009-10-23 - When I first saw previews for the movie, I thought that it was going to be an anime for some odd reason. Although it wasn't, it's still a good movie and gives you an idea of what happened before the events of Dead Space. Although I won't say too much about the plot for fear of spoiling it, Isaac's girlfriend Nicole does make a brief appearance in this movie.
A let down 
2009-10-19 - If you like the game and are a fan. then buy this DVD, but don't expect much because it doesn't explain anything and a lot of things counterdict what is going on in the game. IE the marker size in the DVD compared to the game. And also the fact that they could not come close to the marker in the movie not so in the game. And how the infection got aboard ship. its different from the game to the DVD. I hope the get it together before the next movie
well done...
2009-10-07 - This is a decent animated movie! very Alien like and a little edgy for a cartoon style. the plot is simple but good. good suspense.
Nastily Brutal Sci-Fi Zombie Tale
2009-09-16 - I know nothing of Dead Space, I'm by far no gamer, but Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray have written a nastily brutal animated movie of alien-invasion zombie take-over. WARNING: Spoilers Hereafter. The story centers around an alien religious artifact's entrapment of a human space crew. Thinking they've discovered the find of the century, they learn too late that the alien life form actually conspired with their minds to get the humans to remove and transport the artifact to a new and viable home where it can find innumerable new hosts for their parasitic selves. And the story is as nasty and brutal as it gets. This is a full run of scenes of killing, violence, biological degradation of one species upon another, lots of guts, lots of blood, lots of screams, a little bit of redemptive but all-too-sad sacrifice of self for others, murder, beatings, vomiting, horrific hallucinations, and, to top it all off, the cult classic scene of the year: SYRINGE TO THE EYE! To state the obvious, this is not for the kiddies. This is just profanity-laced violence stacked upon violence. That doesn't mean, though, that there aren't things to like here. Alissa Vincent is a female leader in charge of a crack commando team who makes it to the very end, although, she dies, too. But I love the opening scene where she picks up her coffee cup and we see her cup blotter: a bloody picture of the USG Ishimura's latest homicide victim. And then there's Samuel Irons, a monolithic, kind-hearted, wise giant of a man who works as an engineer and, though he disagrees with the way the religious artifact is, in his opinion, being manhandled, he is the biggest and strongest force in saving as many people as possible until the very end. Technically, the animation is pretty good (not the best I've ever seen, but probably a 4 out of 5), the voice actors chosen do a great job (although I still can't understand how people can scream on cue, but these folks do the job over and over and over and over), and the story, even for its seemingly simple plot line of kill or be killed makes you get rather philosophical about life and death and how in the world we can face the end when we truly know that there is no hope. As to price, I got this at a well-reduced used price, probably wouldn't have paid full retail for it, but if you like what Palmiotti and Gray are doing with DC's Jonah Hex or are quite into the game, I can't think of a better alien story after Alien. Recommended.
