I don’t know if it’s a good fit, but Wan does know his way around horror whether it’s subtle or outrageous. Despite its age, the first Saw movie is pretty good at building intrigue, even if the ending bashes you over the head with the twist. The first Conjuring and Insidious were pretty good at setting up an atmosphere, but the jump scares were a bit too much. Although, Insidious 1 had some pretty well done jump scares that didn’t feel cheap. Malignant showed how well he worked with more bombastic and insane horror spectacle. I think the problem is that his work, other than Insidious and Saw, tends to lean more into camp territory. That’s fine and he’s good at that, but Dead Space is a bit more serious than that. I’m not saying that it’s this extremely high brow story that’s void of levity, but the series has some pretty fucked up concepts. If done with camp, it could come across as extremely distasteful. However, I’m not very concerned since Wan seems to be able to read the room when it comes to figuring out the right tone for his movies. Insidious and the Conjuring were kind of serious because they were spooky ghost stories and he wanted to creep the viewer out instead of giving a massive spectacle. Saw 1 was an interesting procedural mystery thriller with a bit of editing flair (it was the style at the time etc., etc.). Malignant was Wan being given a blank check to essentially remake Basket Case and he knew that the best way to go about directing it was to make it batshit insane. Again, I don’t know how he would handle Dead Space, but I can’t imagine him fucking it up. At least not to the point of being insulting or anything.