UNKNOWN ORIGIN is a B-movie chiller that steals from ALIEN (1979) so shamelessly that it's like watching a page-by-page remake. Set in the ocean depths, UNKNOWN ORIGIN is a submerged road-show approximation of the original classic tale of parasitic invasion.
On the ocean floor in 2020, scientists and technicians for Mobicom Industries receive a distress call from an underwater Russian mining community. Clashing over the crisis are Capt. Jedediah Pickett (Alex Hyde-White), who urges caution, and Dr. Lazarus (Roddy McDowall), who wants to get his hands
on a two-million-year-old creature just awakening from suspended animation. Having mortally dehydrated most of th...
Released:
1995
Rated:
R
Length:
76 mins