The Alien Within

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 underwater mining platform, an alien parasite, dubbed the "vampire bug," plagues the crew of the platform.

Production

Produced by Roger Corman as part of Roger [Corman Presents].

Reception

Creature Feature gave the movie 3 out of 5 stars. It found the movie to be a mixture of Trancers, Alien , The Abyss and The Thing . It praised the script by Alex Simon for keeping the movie interesting. It was not as enamored with Scott Levy's direction.