Topic: Stuck On Loading Screen in Dead Space (PS3)

Hey folks,
I've been playing through the original Dead Space on PS3 for the past few days and, while I've had a great time, I've hit a seemingly impenetrable roadblock right at the end.

After beating Chapter 9, I launched straight into Chapter 10....only for the game to completely freeze up on the following load screen. The system itself also completely conked out as well, forcing me to manually turn the PS3 on and off to get back. Now every time that I load the save I created, it'll go to the loading screen before immediately freezing both the game AND system once more.

To anyone who has/has played the original Dead Space on PS3: is there a way to fix this? I'm fine with just looking up the ending if I have to but man: it'd suck to get this far only to have the rug pulled from under me at the last possible second. Thanks for reading my tale of woe and, if you potentially have an answer, please reply ASAP!