Helsreach: The Movie

This is the grim dark future where there is only war. Fan made film at its finest, shame it will be one of the last of it's kind.

Very few times does the "method" of delivering a visual scene directly impact the mood and status of the protagonist. During mundane daily activity the video feed is black and white, splotchy, and severely amateurish despite the fact that it retains its artistic integrity. From there however, the film itself.. slowly molds itself into a completely different creature as you get closer and closer to actual combat, gaining colors, blurring edges become crisp, the attenuation giving way to vivid and utterly chilling detail. The story is bland if not straight forward, people coming to grips with being assigned a suicide mission and coming to their own terms with it, however you don't really care, having been lost inside this whole new world of Grim-Dark.....

Helsreach might not be for everyone but for fans and followers of the 40k universe it is a must watch.

The style and quality must be regarded in the context of being a fanmade project. But the atmosphere and art is great and transmits a gripping story of heroism and sacrifice.

This movie has every aspect of a 40K defence. It has chapter and Astartes in-fighting. The orks are all killy, then you get the Blessed Sisters, and Invigulata on top. The Titan sound is worthy here. Such a great telling of a great story. I loved Astartes, but I've watched this 2 hour movie 4 times and my wife keeps telling me to stop MAKING NOISE. WAAAARRGH.

A dark and beautifully made movie, so unrealistic and and the same time disturbingly relateable.

At the end I could not help but to silently whisper "For the Emperor"