The foursome are transported to a space station (I think) called the Sprawl and individually interrogated by ultra-evil people interested in the artifact and its impact on humans. The rest have been killed splatter-film style similar to the unfortunate characters in Dead Space: Downfall. Some sort of marine unit breaks into a ship called the O'Bannon, where they find four survivors of a crew numbering above 100.

DVD Talk published several reviews at the time, by Todd Douglass Jr., Thomas Spurlin, and Adam Tyner, if you're interested in reading up about that title.ĭead Space: Aftermath occurs roughly three weeks after the events of Dead Space: Downfall. The audience for the film is likely limited, given its gruesome content, but it was a serviceable time-waster. It seemed reminiscent of pulp storytelling one might find in the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine. The story descends into an Alien-style battle for survival, full of gory mayhem and hackneyed dialogue riddled with obscenities. The security chief for the ship, Alyssa Vincent, soon finds herself dealing with a rash of violent deaths involving an alien life form that distorts then inhabits the bodies of dead crewmembers.

That grim and bloody 72-minute movie, also released through Anchor Bay Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray, was advertised as a prequel to the original Dead Space videogame - and as such could be seen easily enough as its own work for those unfamiliar with the game.ĭead Space: Downfall involved a mining starship of the future named the Ishimura that extracts a large monolith-ish artifact from an alien planet called Aegis VII. I did view, however, its immediate predecessor, the 2008 Dead Space: Downfall. I can't assess how this new film compliments the video game series' narrative. Before I begin this review of Dead Space: Aftermath, I should state that I am not a gamer and have never played the EA Dead Space video games from which this animated film draws its inspiration.

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