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Of Unknown Origin (1983)

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Release Date: Nov 23, 1983 Wide

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When a banking executive tries to outsmart an enormous and seriously pesky rat, it is a case of a battle of wits between two unarmed opponents in this tedious rodent horror treatise on the multiple dangers of rats. Bert Hughes (Peter Weller) is home alone in his Manhattan apartment, trying to work out a major change in his trust company when a noisy rat starts scratching around his periphery, and he becomes obsessed with exterminating it. By the time Hughes is through, his whole apartment is

R, 1 hr. 28 min.

Art House & International, Horror

Directed By: George P. Cosmatos

In Theaters: Nov 23, 1983 Wide

On DVD: Aug 5, 2003

Cast

Peter Weller
Bart Hughes
Jennifer Dale
Lorrie Wells
Lawrence Z. Dane
Eliot Riverton
Kenneth Welsh
James Hall
Louis Del Grande
Clete
Shannon Tweed
Meg Hughes
Keith Knight
Hardware salesman
Maury Chaykin
Dan Errol
Leif Anderson
Peter Hughes
Earl Pennington
Thompson
Bronwen Mantel
Florence
Gayle Garfinkle
Janis
Jimmy Tapp

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Pretty typical tale of how rats will occasionally go nuts and start devouring humans. Peter Weller brings some gravity to the ratty affair.

April 3, 2005 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

An intelligent overlooked horror film about writer's block.

January 14, 2005 Comment

Blake Davis

KFOR Channel 4 News

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It's Peter Weller vs a Rat in what's basically an urban Moby Dick.

May 15, 2007

Ken Stachnik

Super Reviewer

It's "Moby Dick" but with a rat instead of a whale. It is also not scary at all. I'm not saying that you won't enjoy it but it isn't a horror film. I could leniently say it is a "horror spoof" but that would be to do the genre and this film a disservice. Peter Weller does a great job as he gets more and more obsessed but some bits are too silly.

July 3, 2007