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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Dead Space: Downfall (2008)

Animated prequel to a video game that I've not played. It won’t make you soil your undies, or anyone else’s for that matter, but for something that exists solely to promote something else it’s surprisingly good.
The plot is a mix of half a dozen horror/sci-fi films, the most obvious of which are Aliens (1986) and Event Horizon (1997), but the animation is decent enough and voice work is more varied than is normal in this kind of thing (fuck yea, Boxleitner!). Horror and game fans who enjoy squelching and crunching noises likely won't need to feel embarrassed about owning it.

3 corks popped out of 5

2 comments:

cuckoo said...

Haven't seen this but own the first game and enjoyed it.

I'd watch this if it has the same sort of BioShock-esque wiggins as the game.

Dr Faustus said...

It’s more gory action than creepy atmosphere, more Cameron in an enclosed environment than Ridley, but when held up next to similar, non-Japanese direct to video tie-ins it was better than average.
There’s a second one that isn’t so good.