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Alien Origin

  • Video
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 28m
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2.0/10
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Alien Origin (2012)
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Alien InvasionB-ActionB-HorrorDark FantasyFound Footage HorrorJungle AdventureSupernatural FantasySupernatural HorrorSuspense MysteryAction

A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.

  • Director
    • Mark Atkins
  • Writer
    • Mark Atkins
  • Stars
    • Philip Coc
    • Eric Darins
    • Daniela Flynn
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    • Director
      • Mark Atkins
    • Writer
      • Mark Atkins
    • Stars
      • Philip Coc
      • Eric Darins
      • Daniela Flynn
    • 58User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Philip Coc
    • Philip Royce
    • (uncredited)
    Eric Darins
    • Handsome
    • (uncredited)
    Daniela Flynn
    Daniela Flynn
    • Dr. Susan Neiman
    • (uncredited)
    Mjr. John Frear
    • Dr. Timothy Holden
    • (uncredited)
    Dennis Johnson
    • Dennis Freisen
    • (uncredited)
    Trey McCurley
    Trey McCurley
    • Lt. Chris Thompson
    • (uncredited)
    Kent Noralez
    • Kent Clarkson
    • (uncredited)
    Saul Pech
    • Saul Vega
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Pedrero
    Peter Pedrero
    • Peter Santos
    • (uncredited)
    Andres Rash
    • Andres Revell
    • (uncredited)
    Rupert Tablada
    • Top Dog
    • (uncredited)
    Alan Usher
    • Major Alan Menton
    • (uncredited)
    Chelsea Vincent
    • Julia Evans
    • (uncredited)
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      • Mark Atkins
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      • Mark Atkins
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    1bilejo

    Beyond awful.

    Well....I can't conceive how anyone could make a worse movie! Too bad they don't have a minus no star rating. If that was the case I'd giver it a minus .000000000000001 Star.

    I won't give the plot away but it apparently low budget. Actors/actresses are mediocre at best. Filming was shabby at best and many attempts were apparently made to heighten suspense. But that's what they were...attempt.

    I don't want to give anyone the wrong opinion but there are very few movies I have seen that I was as displeased with.

    I realize I have a 1,000 words but that isn't enough to describe my experience watching it. I can summarize by saying I'd rather watch a buzzard puke.
    1netmange

    Great poster. That's about it...

    I watched this movie stupidly thinking it was one of the Alien vs Predator line of movies. God was I wrong. This is arguably one of the worst movies I've ever watched. It gives a 5 minute clumsy attempt at movie making by pimpled prepubescent geeks a real run for their $5 budget. The show was probably shot on a $100 budget and about $80 was put into designing a real kickass poster. Then the director though," Hmm. Another $10. What can I do with that?? Well, let me just grab a bunch of desperate superstar wannabes and offer them a shot at stardom if they each contribute another $100 to my budget! Brilliant!!" Well unfortunately it's quite likely the investment put in by the wannabe superstars won't be paying off anytime soon. The director should be thrown in the slammer for grievous waste of viewers' time and irreversible brain rot. This movie is not worse your time or money for rental. Avoid it like the plague even if someone pays you to watch it. (Unless you're in the mood for exchanging some brain cells for a couple of bucks)
    3ronniedarko-02311

    Accurate portrayal of soldiers running through woods

    If you enjoy watching soldiers endlessly run through the woods, this movie is for you! There are lots of scenes of soldiers running through the woods. Sometimes their running is frantic, sometimes very cautious. Sometimes they shoot their guns. But usually they are just running through the woods. You will feel like you are right there running with them. In the heat of the pursuit of forest running. Sometimes they see something and stop and check it out. But for the most part they stick to running through the woods. I have always wanted to join the army but will think twice about it now. I had no idea there would be so much running around. A great flick to watch if you enjoy soldiers running. A must see!
    1jessebanke

    junk

    The movie is horrible, I got a head ache from the constant shaking of the camera. The plot was very drawn out for no reason, the movie was %50 running around with the camera shaking for no reason. save your $2 and don't watch this failure flick.

    This would have been a cool short film. If they minus all the running around camera shaking mess. Unfortunately I wasted an hour before I stopped watching it. Its not like there was going to be a surprise ending. The ending is told at the beginning of the movie.

    Time that I could have rather watched the flies buzzing around the living room, maybe even pick one and cheer it on to do the most laps. Either way anything would have been better then watching this movie. It has earned the failure of the month award from me. The name is not even relevant to the movie. The movie name is Alien Origins, but it doesn't say anything about any type of origin. I could understand if it showed a 2 minute clip of their home world, or something, but NO, they failed.
    1graeme-206-255002

    The Lunatics Are Taking Over the Asylum

    Or, to be perfectly honest, they are running the film industry.

    Actually, that's a typo - it's not running, it's ruining.

    Another Asylum lunatic fringe production that adds nothing to any genre - it tries to be found footage, but misses the point, it tries to be horror, but misses the point, it tries to be scifi, but misses the point..indeed the only point it manages to successfully achieve and surpass, is the point when you realise that that's another 90minutes of your life that the Asylum have stolen from you.

    And that's depressing.

    I'm curious as to what future blockbuster they were trying to mimic - I sincerely hope it wasn't Prometheus, because if it was, the fail factor is off the chart - it's like they read a précis of the prequel to Alien, and tried to pre-empt what Ridley Scott was going to make. And failed with such catastrophic ease, that it's actually criminal to try and market this movie to the general public.

    If it wasn't Prometheus, then I'm left with the only other option, and that being that it was an Asylum original movie. And that's wrong on so many levels.

    The story itself was all over the place, I can't even begin to try and explain the mess the writer came up with. First they were doing an exercise in the jungle, then they were chasing "unknowns", then they were rescuing archaeologists (which, when you see the cut away scenes, will make you cringe), then were finding alien spacecraft in the middle of the said jungle whilst expressing not one bit of amazement at the discovery...

    Casting selections looks to have been made with blindfold at the end of a drunken night out with the boys, whilst they were decent enough actors, the mish mash ethnicity just didn't work coupled to the abysmal script and director-less production - all added together to leave us with a dogs dinner of a movie.

    Still, the fireworks throughout the tail end of the film were pretty.

    Oh wait a minute....I just realised....it's a true story, and really happened...and they're all still missing...

    Ah well - that's okay then.

    In short - watch this movie at your own risk - a little piece of you may wither up and float away if you do.....

    1/10

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    • Trivia
      Was The Asylum's attempt to rip off Ridley Scott's quasi-Alien prequel Prometheus (2012), which also told the story of humanities origins on Earth and how humans were biologically 'engineered' by aliens.
    • Goofs
      "Two missing archaeologists are still unlocated" is just terribly-worded.
    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Shameless Movie Rip-Offs (2015)

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    • Release date
      • June 12, 2012 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Происхождение чужих
    • Filming locations
      • Belize
    • Production companies
      • The Asylum
      • The Institution
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 28m(88 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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