Kudos to all those involved and again … Wow. Not since the original Heavy Metal and Vampire Hunter D have I seen an animated film so provocative. While mainly targeting the gamers out there who will no doubt be picking up Dead Space, this feature transcends that audience by delivering a slice of animated horror that stands on its own as one hell of a ride. Patton, Palmiotti, and Gray are obviously not content with just pushing the proverbial envelope they are here to push it, paint it red with gore, and then tear the fucker in half. Bodies are torn, eviscerated, and mutilated with the kind of reckless abandon you’d expect from Ed Gein on super-crack. There’s nothing bright and sunny about Dead Space: Downfall. If you’re going into this expecting some cutesy bit of sci-fi anime, you’re in for a shock. Twisted, once human monsters roam its high-tech halls, and that, my friends, is exactly where the video game takes up.

From within the relic a dormant strain of body possessing aliens emerge, and as a result absolute and total carnage ensues. The big problem at hand? This thing is anything but holy. The residents have inadvertently unearthed a huge religious relic that is thought to provide proof of the existence of God. We meet the crew of the USG Ishimura as they head off to check out what’s happened on a remote planet that is home to a deep space mining colony.

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