Of Unknown Origin (1983)

R11/23/1983Horror1h 28m
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Two forces have claimed the house. Only one will survive.

Overview

A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Peter Weller

    Bart Hughes

  2. Cast 1

    Jennifer Dale

    Lorrie Wells

  3. Cast 1

    Lawrence Dane

    Eliot Riverton

  4. Cast 1

    Kenneth Welsh

    James Hall

  5. Cast 1

    Louis Del Grande

    Clete

  6. Cast 1

    Shannon Tweed

    Meg Hughes

  7. Cast 1

    Keith Knight

    Hardware Salesman

  8. Cast 1

    Maury Chaykin

    Dan Errol

  9. Cast 1

    Leif Anderson

    Peter Hughes

_**The Rat from Hell**_ A Manhattan executive (Peter Weller) deals with the rats on Wall Street while defending his brownstone ‘castle’ against a literal vermin. Jennifer Dale plays his secretary while Lawrence Dane and Kenneth Welsh are on hand as colleagues. "Of Unknown Origin" (1983) strikes me as a Stephen King yarn, which makes sense when you figure that this is one of the horror author’s favorite flicks. While the compare/contrast of the protagonist’s life in his home-castle with the rat maze at work is interesting, the premise is too light IMHO to carry a feature film: a man...