The film opens with a video message from security chief Alissa Vincent, saying the Ishimura is lost and both the ship and the Marker that caused its fall must be destroyed. Downfall details how the Marker's infection reached and overcame the Ishimura, told through the eyes of a number of Aegis VII miners and Ishimura crew members. In reality, the Marker is a human copy of an alien object that begins to have a fatal influence over the colony, eventually causing an outbreak of reanimated mutated corpses referred to outside the movie as ' Necromorphs'. Colony geologist Jennifer Barrows discovers a monolith-like artifact identified as a Marker, an object sacred to the Unitologists' beliefs. The story begins during the second year of an illegal mining operation on the planet Aegis VII funded by the Church of Unitology. Electronic Arts and Film Roman would collaborate again on 2011's Dead Space: Aftermath, a prequel to Dead Space 2.ĭead Space: Downfall takes place in the year 2508, centuries after humanity narrowly avoided extinction due to resource depletion by 'cracking' planets to extract their resources in a three-year process. Reviews were mixed, with praise for its voice acting, writing and animation, but criticism for its short length and emphasis on graphic violence over horror and suspense.

The DVD release earned over $1 million in sales. Electronic Arts provided art assets to Film Roman, allowing an accurate representation of the game's universe. Patton was given relative freedom with the narrative and visuals, wanting to create the goriest feature Film Roman had produced. The film was produced as part of Electronic Art's multimedia expansion of the plot, referred to by staff as 'IP cubed'. Set aboard the planet mining ship USG Ishimura, it details the events following the transportation of an artifact called the Marker from the planet Aegis VII, leading to the deaths of nearly everyone on board at the hands of reanimated mutated corpses dubbed ' Necromorphs'. It first released direct-to-video in October, before seeing a television showing the following month on Starz Encore.ĭownfall is a prequel to Dead Space, taking place after the limited comic series. Dead Space: Downfall is a 2008 American adult animated psychological science fiction horror film directed by Chuck Patton, written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti and developed by Film Roman under the supervision of Electronic Arts Electronic Arts also published the 2008 survival horror video game Dead Space upon which the film is based.

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