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Of Unknown Origin

  • 6.1 /10

  • 102

  • 63%

Plot

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

Cast

Peter Weller as Bart Hughes
Peter Weller

as Bart Hughes

Jennifer Dale as Lorrie Wells
Jennifer Dale

as Lorrie Wells

Lawrence Dane as Eliot Riverton
Lawrence Dane

as Eliot Riverton

Kenneth Welsh as James Hall
Kenneth Welsh

as James Hall

Louis Del Grande as Clete
Shannon Tweed as Meg Hughes
Shannon Tweed

as Meg Hughes

Keith Knight as Hardware Salesman
Keith Knight

as Hardware Salesman

Maury Chaykin as Dan Errol
Maury Chaykin

as Dan Errol

Leif Anderson as Peter Hughes
Leif Anderson

as Peter Hughes

Jimmy Tapp as Meg's Father
Jimmy Tapp

as Meg's Father

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • November 23, 1983

Production Companies

  • Canadian Film Development Corporation

  • Les Productions Mutuelles Ltée

  • Famous Players

Production Countries

  • Canada

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $4,000,000.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.47 hrs

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Reviews

_**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 aut…