The Alien Within

{{Short description|1995 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox film |name = The Alien Within |image = The Alien Within 1995.jpg |caption = Home video cover art |director = Scott P. Levy |producer = Mike Elliott<br>''executive''<br>Roger Corman |writer = Alex Simon |story = Rob Kerchner |starring = {{Plainlist| *Roddy McDowall *Alex Hyde-White *Melanie Shatner *Don Stroud }} |music = Christopher Lennertz |cinematography = Mike Mickens |editing = John Bergstrasser |released = {{Film date|1995|7|18|US}} |runtime = 75 minutes |country = United States |language = English |budget = $4 million<ref name="Visions">{{cite magazine |last=Eby|first=Douglas|date=August 1995|title= Of Unknown Origin|url=https://archive.org/details/Visions_v01n01_Aug_1995/page/n43/mode/1up?view=theater|url-status= |magazine=Visions|location= |publisher= Fourth Castle Micromedia|access-date=August 28, 2024}}</ref> }} '''''The Alien Within''''' is a 1995 horror science fiction film directed by Scott P. Levy and starring Roddy McDowall, Alex Hyde-White, Melanie Shatner, Don Stroud, and Richard Biggs. It was also known as '''''Unknown Origin'''''.

==Plot==

At a future (2020) underwater mining platform, an alien parasite, dubbed the "vampire bug," <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-alien-within/review/2000276825/|title=The Alien within}}</ref> plagues the crew of the platform.<ref>Stanley, J. (2000) Creature Feature: 3rd edition.</ref>

==Production== Produced by Roger Corman as part of ''Roger Corman Presents''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Grimes|first=William|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 9, 1995|title=Yikes! Roger Corman Is Back, Still|page=4}}</ref>

==Reception==

Creature Feature gave the movie 3 out of 5 stars. It found the movie to be a mixture of Trancers, Alien (film), The Abyss and The Thing (1982 film). It praised the script by Alex Simon for keeping the movie interesting. It was not as enamored with Scott Levy's direction.<ref>Stanley, J. (2000) Creature Feature: 3rd Edition</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0114795}} *[https://letterboxd.com/film/the-alien-within/ ''The Alien Within''] at Letter Box *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100302110140/http://www.reelzchannel.com/movie/198745/the-alien-within/cast The Alien Within at Reelzchannel.com]

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