

Downfall is really at its best from a horror standpoint when it’s focusing on the insanity to which the crew is falling victim. There’s not a whole lot of ambiance to absorb and it’s mostly just hopping from one action scene to another. This movie is a bit more faltering in that area. One of which being so bad I actually cringed and looked away for a second, which is rare for me to do in a horror movie.īut we’re not here for the gore, we’re here for the scares. Many characters die in ridiculously gory ways. This movie does not fail in matching the bloodbath of the video game by a long shot. You can also defeat them by setting them on fire and blowing them to bits, but the aforementioned method is the most common. The only way they can really be destroyed is through lopping off their limbs and finishing them off by stomping on their bodies. Necromorphs are more or less immune to bullets. The death scenes are usually incredibly graphic, and even the way you defeat the alien creatures, known as necromorphs, is pretty damn brutal. However, since homework is poo, we’ll be mostly focusing on how this movie fares as a standalone.ĭead Space is a very, very, very bloody and gory series. Three was a disappointment to me) It’s one of my favorite game franchises. When the Ishimura tries to recover the artifact, whatever spread over Aegis VII starts to infect those within the Ishimura.īreakdown: I absolutely love Dead Space (Well, the first two anyway. Security Chief Alissa Vincent and her crew are dispatched to rescue any and all survivors when the colony on Aegis VII suffers from a rash of suicides and sudden murders after uncovering a strange alien artifact. Plot: A prequel to the popular horror game, Dead Space, Downfall centers around the story of the first and second attacks on Aegis VII, as well as what really happened on the planet cracker ship, the USG Ishimura.
