Sorry for the late posting I had completely forgotten about uploading this review yesterday. So for this week tanya tuesdays is now tanya wednesdays. I shall however, make sure that next tuesday there is definately a review up for the site. Even if I upload it a day early and put it in a queue. Anyway enjoy the review

Dead Space Downfall (2008, Chuck Patton) is an animated prequel to the Dead Space game. Crew members of the Ishimura, a mining spacecraft, discover an artefact called the marker. The artefact is moved onboard the spaceship and a series of disturbing events occur. Crew members exploring the planet where the marker was uncovered, become violent, suicidal and mentally unstable. All hell breaks loose as one miner brings his dead wife, who commited suicide, onto the Ishimura unaware that an alien, a necromorph lies attached to her dead body. This necromorph then spreads throughout the ship and the body count and alien infestation rapidly rise. Vincent a crew member and her security team attempt to save members of the ship from the outbreak, slowly her team falls prey to the necromorphs and Vincent learns there is no hope for her or anyone on board the Ishimura.

The film is really quite enjoyable. There isn’t a lot of story of character development, the film is just essentially a gory bloodbath. It’s enjoyable though because the gore is not approach in a tacked on way. There are some quite gruesome moments within this film, you see peoples jaws ripped off and the like. The animation is well done, I wasn’t expecting the film to be so well animated.

It was quite unusual watching this film, firstly because Jim Cummings does the voice for one of the characters and unfortunately for me I will never be able to separate Jim Cummings and Tigger. I know he does a lot of voices for films besides Tigger and he is a good voice actor. Unfortunately throughout this film which was obviously supposed to be a horror film I kept seeing Tigger. That’s something more personal for me though. Secondly knowing the ending of the film because I was aware of the games ruined it slightly for me also. There was no climatic moment because I knew they were all going to die, I wasn’t concerned as to whether the characters would make it through the film because I knew they wouldn’t. The film is actually quite good though, I believe you can get it pretty cheaply and you can also watch it on netflix (like I did). It’s definitely worth a watch if your a Dead Space fan, or a fan of gore and violence. It’s even a film that now I’ve seen it, I’d go out an purchase myself actually.