So if I had started off saying this is a Mexican film about gangsters and vampires, you might have expected something like From Dusk til’ Dawn, and I didn’t really want to give that impression. The girl is being hunted by “arcana”, warriors with ancient weapons and ceremonial tattoos, led by Velkam (Arap Bethke) and it’s largely by those tattoos that we can tell which side the weird strangers are on until those without the tattoos reveal a clue of their own: fangs. It is an action-rich dark fantasy about two conflicts that happen to coincide at the same location: one criminal and one supernatural.

Origin Unknown, or Sin Origen is directed by Rigoberto Castañeda ( KM 31: Kilómetro 31, Blackout) and adapted to work for the Mexican market from a script by Michael Caissie ( Hangman).

However, a battle he is not prepared for lands on the doorstep when a sick girl (Paulina Gil) appears, looking for refuge. Pedro De Toro (Daniel Martínez) has been an accountant for a drug cartel, and now he plans to negotiate his way out of their employ, so keeping his family as safe as possible just in case the news doesn’t go down well.

It’s not just the family settling in, but guards too, inside and all around the house, which is fully equipped as a high-tech safe house. There’s tension and no-one seems to be getting along even the father’s new partner is unwelcome, as far as the kids are concerned (no surprise when we find out she’s his late wife’s sister). Stylized sword fighting with a blend of slow motion and speeded up cinematography, with badass armor and moody lighting… I don’t know what’s going on, but it looks exciting.įast forward – in the next scene – to the present day and we meet a well-to-do family settling into a gorgeous house.

Sin Origen (known as Origin Unknown or Unsourced in some countries) opens with a head cleanly cut off, rolling towards the viewer. Entertaining supernatural swashbuckling stuff, with more lavish style than substance. White-collar criminal readies himself and his family for trouble from his drug-runner employers when Hell of a different kind comes down on his sanctuary.

Synopsis of the movie original sin