Powerful

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This review may contain a few spoilers, if you can't handle spoilers, then stop reading right there. Without further ado, let the review begin. Unknown Origin (or The Alien Within) is a 1995 Horror Sci-Fi direct to video Leviathan rip-off. The plot of this movie is about a crew team in the underwater faculty have discovered an alien life- form virus, it's up to the crew team to survive this alien virus. This movie has tried hard to be a half-way decent low-budget Leviathan clone, but in the end, it turns out to be a cheap below average experience at best. Pros: - Good special effects for a low-budget movie - It's not long at all (it's 75 minutes or 1 hour & 15 minutes long) - Okay action scenes Cons: - Bad acting - Bad plot - Bad soundtrack - Miserable concept & presentation Overall, just watch Leviathan or The Abyss instead, just forget this low-budget below average rip-off. 4/10, the endRated R for violence, moderate coarse language, and brief graphic nudity

OK this movie does borrow from The Thing, heavily. In fact it is more like a cross-breed between Alien and The Thing. Despite Its un-orginality and a bit of wooden acting overall it is a good B-Movie and well worth a watch if you are into this sort of thing, mind the pun.I'll give it a *** out of 5

I accidentally stumbled on this pile of manure one evening and I caught maybe the last 45 minutes to an hour of it. It was like driving by a car wreck on the highway- you don't want to look, but somehow you are forced to by the horror of it all. Some people say that Ishtar is the worst movie ever made. These people should be forced to endure the mind-bending stupidity of this film. They'd change their tune about 20 seconds into it. I cannot believe films like this actually get funding. There are many great independent film directors/screenwriters out there who can't get a studio to fund a project, yet films like this get made. What is this world coming to?

Lots of fun in this underwater thriller as a team of scientists and miners battle a mind-controlling alien parasite that takes over their bodies. The thrills and the laughs never quit in this nifty micro-budget flick, that harkens back to the best of Roger Corman's drive-in classics from the 1960's. Clever writing and direction that overcome the low budget make this one a sure-fire bet for a fun evening in front of the TV.