The effects team wanted a monster different from anything that had been seen before, a task made more complicatied as the movie was shot in three weeks. Some of the space battle effects were reused from Battle Beyond the Stars. Singer said that he had fun shooting the movie, and felt that it was an 'unpretentious, rip-roaring space adventure.' The film had a working title of Biohazard. The movie is a remake of the 1982, Roger Corman-produced horror film Forbidden World and while there are minor differences, it still retains the original new main storyline and new character set-up. One of the lab workers develops a bioweapon that proves effective in stopping the monster. Krieger and Tinpan attempt to stop the monster, but their weapons prove ineffective. Unfortunately, the virus escapes and infects a lab worker, leaving the lab to face a killer virus that turns them into alien monsters.

The scientist had not been entirely honest with Krieger, and had been attempting to study the virus rather than contain it. Krieger accepts the lab's claims and begins repairs on his ship. Upon their arrival at Phablos, those in charge of the laboratory explain that they have managed to contain the virus. An emergency distress call is sent from the lab.Ī spacecraft crewed by Commander Steve Krieger and robot sidekick Tinpan respond to the emergency call from the planet, but their craft is attacked and damaged on the way to Phablos.

In the research facility on the planet Phablos, a virus is created in a botched experiment which turns those infected into monsters. Dead Space is a 1991 American science-fiction horror film directed by Fred Gallo and produced by Mike Elliott.

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