Of Unknown Origin

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Jonathan O Of Unknown Origin is really creepy crawling horror comedy it well make your skin crawl and those who are really terrified of rats and writing and the mode and the humor of this movie it really feels like Stephen King's universe and good performance by Peter Weller and if you love Robocop and Willard and Ben you will be surprised in the climax. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/18/24 Full Review Audience Member Based on The Visitor by Chauncey G. Parker III, this movie is totally worth watching just to see Peter Weller pretty much be in a movie by himself for long stretches, going absolutely ful nutzoid at the premise of having a rat in his walls. If you've said, "I want a movie where rats attack people while they're arrdvarking and children at birthday parties," Of Unknown Origin is your movie. I mean, there was one point where I had to stop this movie and just catch my breath and be amazed that it exists. George P. Cosmatos may be known today as the father of Beyond the Black Rainbow and Mandy director Panos Cosmatos, but he was a more than dependable director, turning out blockbuster fare like Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Leviathan and Tombstone. Bart Hughes (Weller) stays behind to work on the job that will get him a promotion while his wife (Shannon Tweed) and child go away on vacation. He just redid their brownstone, so this should be a great weekend for him, but no, a rat shows up and that's the story. Ninety minutes or so of a rat and Peter Weller descends into destructive dementia and screams stuff like, "Watch and weep, you furry f**ker" and "Keep it up. Just keep it up. I've got friends in Jersey." Bart Hughes (Weller) stays behind to work on the job that will get him a promotion while his wife (Shannon Tweed) and child go away on vacation. He just redid their brownstone, so this should be a great weekend for him, but no, a rat shows up and that's the story. Ninety minutes or so of a rat and Peter Weller descends into destructive dementia and screams stuff like, "Watch and weep, you furry f**ker" and "Keep it up. Just keep it up. I've got friends in Jersey." There's also a moment where he tells everyone at a dinner party that no one knows where rats come from — Of Unknown Origin — and no one corrects him and calls BS and explains that they come from Asia, but then again, no one had Wikipedia in 1983 and they had to figure out how to get the title into the movie. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Of Unknown Origin is a brilliant horror film about a Giant Rat. Ben vs Robocop in a grudge match. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/17/20 Full Review Audience Member Pretty awesome movie. It's more of a character study than just a simple man vs rat movie. Peter Weller is great in it, and it's impressive watching him go slowly mad, as he sheds his reliance on material gains in his hunt for this disgusting vermin. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/02/18 Full Review Audience Member Entertainingly offbeat horror film has banker Peter Weller, in his first leading role, being driven insane by a particularly clever and destructive rat. Weller seems to slowly lose his sanity in his obsessive quest to kill the vermin and ends up destroying his apartment in the process. Directed by George P. Cosmatos ("Cobra" and "Tombstone"), this film is slickly made and visually arresting, though I'm not quite sure if Cosmatos saw this film as a psychological horror film along the lines of "Repulsion" or "The Tenant," but this film definitely seems much closer to "Willard." Still, I enjoyed "Willard" and I enjoyed this film as well. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member No me gustó, no la terminé de ver, es matar una rata por el solo hecho de ser rata, en realidad no era nada más y ese tipo de películas no me gustan. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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