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Dead Space: Aftermath
Directed by	Mike Disa
Produced by	Joe Goyette Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
Written by	Brandon Auman Mike Disa Chuck Beaver Joe Goyette
Based on	Dead Space by Electronic Arts
Starring	Gwendoline Yeo Christopher Judge Peter Woodward Ricardo Chavira Curt Cornelius
Music by	Christopher Tin
Edited by	Steven Fahey
Production companies
Distributed by	Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dead Space: Aftermath is a 2011 American science fictionhorror film directed by Mike Disa, written by a team including Brandon Auman, and developed by Film Roman and Pumpkin Studios under the supervision of Electronic Arts. 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 criticising its niche appeal and animation quality.

Synopsis[edit]

Aftermath is set in 2509, shortly after the events of Dead Space, and acts as a prequel to Dead Space 2.^[1]^[2] During the events of Dead Space, a planet mining colony funded by the Church of Unitology identified a Marker, an object sacred to the Unitologists' beliefs, on the planet Aegis VII. The Marker is a human copy of an alien object that has a fatal influence over the Aegis VII colony and the mining ship USG Ishimura, eventually causing an outbreak of reanimated mutated corpses referred to outside the movie as 'Necromorphs'. Aftermath follows the accounts to EarthGov officials of four survivors from the USG O'Bannon, which was sent to investigate Aegis VII.^[1]^[3]^[4] After contact is lost with the O'Bannon, EarthGov sends another ship to investigate and recovers four survivors; security officer Nicholas Kuttner, engineer Alejandro Borgas, chief science officer Nolan Stross, and chief medical officer Isabella Cho. En route to the EarthGov base at Titan Sprawl, each survivor gives their account, with EarthGov gathering intelligence for their own Marker project.^[3]^[5]^[6]

Kuttner led a team which included the other survivors to stabilise Aegis VII's failing gravity. There they found fragments of the Marker, which were worth a lot of money. However, touching a fragment caused Kuttner to have a psychotic episode, damaging the gravity stabiliser before he was restrained. After giving his account, Kuttner escapes and has another hallucination which leads him into space, where he dies. Borgas's story reveals that the team failed to fix the stabilizer, and abandoned Aegis VII as it disintegrated, bringing back both the Marker shard and salvaged corpses from the Ishimura. Aegis VII's destruction damaged the drive and killed several crew members. While he is unaffected by the Marker, Borgas knows too much and is executed after the interrogation. Wic reset utility v5.5.53 keys. Stross reveals that he fell under the Marker's influence while studying its effects on corpses and unwittingly unleashed a Necromorph outbreak on the O'Bannon. When he went to protect his family, he suffered a hallucination which caused him to kill them instead. Stross is kept alive so EarthGov can study the Marker's impact on his mind.

Cho's account reveals that she freed Kuttner to help fight off the Necromorphs, and partnering with Stross and Borgas they decided to throw the Marker shard into the ship's drive, hoping to both destroy it and jump-start the ship. By the time they reached the drive room, they were the only surviving crew members. Despite Stross's unhinged attempt to stop her, Cho threw the Marker shard into the ship's drive, causing a shockwave which disintegrated the Necromorphs but left the ship stranded. Now having arrived at the Sprawl, Cho deduces EarthGov's intentions of recreating the Marker. When offered the chance to join them, she refuses, so is lobotomised and framed as a terrorist responsible for the fates of Aegis VII, the Ishimura, and the O'Bannon, while Stross is held in an EarthGov asylum alongside series protagonist Isaac Clarke.

Voice actors[edit]

Character	Voice actor^[7]
Isabella Cho	Gwendoline Yeo
Nickolas Kuttner	Christopher Judge
Alejandro Borges	Ricardo Chavira
Nolan Stross	Curt Cornelius
Lead Interrogator	Peter Woodward

Production[edit]

Dead Space: Aftermath forms part of the Dead Space series, described at the time by publisher Electronic Arts as a 'trans-media franchise'.^[1] The movie, together with the video game spin-off Dead Space Ignition and multiple pieces of print media, formed part of Electronic Arts's push to expand the narrative and reach of Dead Space.^[8] It also specifically formed part of the marketing push for Dead Space 2.^[5] Speaking about the contrasting merits of game and film narrative, the game's producer Steve Papoutsis stated that they were able to go in depth on elements that would otherwise be left unexplained.^[9] According to Papoutsis, the development team were 'excited' to see the Dead Space series continue to feature in media expansions.^[5] The film was co-produced by Starz Media's animation subsidiary Film Roman, who handled Dead Space: Downfall; animation studio Pumpkin Studio; and Electronic Arts, acting as supervisor.^[5]^[10] The different flashback sections were handled by multiple South Korean studios, providing the desired variety.^[9] The studios were Dong Woo Animation, Digiart Productions, FX Gear and JM Animation.^[10] Both Dong Woo Animation and JM Animation had worked with Film Roman on the earlier animated feature Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic.^[11]

Director Mike Disa described the goal of Aftermath as creating 'the most disturbing, terrifying horror movie we can make'. The story delivery was directly influenced by the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon, which delivered its stor