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Dead Space: Aftermath (2011)

Dead Space: Aftermath poster
Directed by
Mike Disa
Genre
fantasy film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, splatter film, zombie film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 199 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Four survivors from a spaceship are interrogated about a disaster on a mining colony. Each survivor tells a different version of what happened involving a mysterious artifact that turns corpses into monsters.

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What happens

Dead Space: Aftermath is a 2011 American adult animated psychological science fiction horror film directed by Mike Disa, written by a team including Brandon Auman, and developed by Starz Media Film Roman and Pumpkin Studio under the supervision of Electronic Arts & Visceral Games. It was released direct-to-video on January 25, the same day as the 2011 survival horror video game Dead Space 2, published by Electronic Arts. The movie serves as a prequel to Dead Space 2. The story follows the interrogation of four survivors from the USG O'Bannon, who were sent to the remains of the planet Aegis VII to investigate the fate of its colony, discovering a fragment of an artifact called the Marker which triggers an outbreak of reanimated mutated corpses dubbed "Necromorphs". Film Roman, which had previously collaborated on the production of Dead Space: Downfall, wanted to create a prequel with a narrative based on the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon, showing the same event from multiple perspectives. To reflect the different narrative timelines, different animation styles were adopted, with Film Roman partnering with multiple South Korean animation studios to head each flashback sequence. Multiple staff members had previously worked on Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic. Reception of the film was mixed, with many criticizing its niche appeal and animation quality. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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