Ever seen that horror movie starring Peter Weller as Bart Hughes and a giant rat? It’s awesome. It’s called Of Unknown Origin, but they might as well have just called it Big Killer Rat In An Appartment, like with Snakes on A Plane you’ll at least know what you’re getting before the movie even starts. Check out the excellent trailer here. I like the line “If it doesn’t kill them, it will scare them to death.” I get this image of a rat jumping out of a closet yelling BOO.

Peter’s character is obsessed with an unusually big and crafty rat in his appartment like it’s the Moby Dick to his Ahab. I was thinking about this movie while we were having a verbal smack down with the helpdesk people of a certain shitty provider, I was internetless and pissed and I remember thinking ‘now i know how Bart Hughes felt’. Anyway, he thrashes the appartment completely trying to get to the gigantic rodent. In the end his wife comes home and he’s sitting in the middle of a war zone, so she asks him what the hell happened, and he says “I had a party”. Classic.

I always thought this movie would make a great low-budget play; all you need is one set, Peter Weller and a well trained dog wearing a rat costume. Sadly, the rat bites the big one in the end. I’m sorry I spoiled the ending for you, but the movie is really about the battle not the outcome. If the big rat in the movie had won, this is the song he would play with his rat friends while he was bragging about how he snuffed out that punk from Robocop. Which makes me wonder how a rat would kill a guy, other then giving him a bad case of the plague …

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