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Subject: OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 11:43:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 11:43:24 1985
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                             OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
                      A film review by Mark R. Leeper

     This film is an unexpected pleasure.  It was lost among a flood of
similar little horror films with similar unpromising premises.  Bart Hughes
is a successful executive with a proven track record.  He has a beautiful
wife, a beautiful secretary who has designs on him, a nice urban house, and
one extremely bright and tenacious rat in his cellar.

     The film traces the disintegration of Bart's personality as he battles
the rat.  Time and again he loses battles with his small foe by under-
estimating its powers.  Eventually he is reduced to a primitive animal
fighting for its existence against his small adversary.  This Canadian film
combines some of the better aspects of Spielberg's DUEL and Bass's PHASE IV.

     Eventually the film loses its credibility as the rat just behaves too
intelligently, and in some scenes the size of the rat seems exaggerated.
Still, the film is an effective little film.  Rate it +1 on (a -4 to +4
scale).

					(Evelyn C. Leeper for)
					Mark R. Leeper
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