Of Unknown Origin

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Of Unknown Origin (1983)

R 1983-11-23 (US) Horror 1h 28m

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Two forces have claimed the house. Only one will survive.

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

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Peter Weller

Bart Hughes
Jennifer Dale

Lorrie Wells
Lawrence 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
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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... read the rest.

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