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The Hidden

6.4

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Sequel:

The Hidden 2

Original title

The Hidden

Year

1987

Running time

97 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jack Sholder

Screenwriter

Jim Kouf

Cast

Music

Michael Convertino

Cinematography

Jacques Haitkin

Producer

New Line Cinema, Heron Communications

Genre

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror | Aliens. Cop Movies

Synopsis

The police are hunting a man, who has committed several crimes, mostly auto theft. They eventually captured but not after a long chase and only after he crashes his car and is burned. At the hospital, the man rises and then proceeds to the man in the room with him. He then proceeds to open the man's mouth and a creature comes out of his and enters the man. The man then stands up and walks out of the hospital. An FBI agent goes to the police and says he is looking for the man they just caught. When he goes to the hospital, he takes a photo of the man and gives it to the police and says that they have to find him. After a long chase, the detective, who is frustrated, arrests the FBI agent and demands to know what is going on. He says that he is an alien and that the people they have been pursuing have each been taken over by an alien that he is pursuing.

Awards: 1987: Sitges Fantasy Film Festival: Best Actor (Michael Nouri)

1987: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): 4 nominations

1988: Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival: Grand Prix (Best Film).

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Critics' reviews

"'The Hidden' is hands down the best movie ever made about a homicidal alien slug that oozes from human host to human host."

Entertainment Weekly
"The film is violent and a little gross in one or two scenes, but there is an intelligence in its writing by Bob Hunt and direction by Jack Sholder that makes everything worthwhile."

Gene Siskel: Chicago Tribune
"[It] is too predictable, and even though wickedly fun at times, it's only halfway as awesome as it might have been."

Peter Stack: SFGATE
"'The Hidden' is a textbook example of how a B-movie can transcend its origins and budgetary constraints through craft, imagination, and all-around resourcefulness"

Nathan Rabin: AV Club
"Powered by a driving rock score, this is by turns sleek, reckless, and smoothly effective, like a Ferrari with a psycho killer at the wheel."

Time Out
"A sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"'The Hidden' has enough smarts that it doesn’t need to be so total and unrelieved a massacre. The caustic dark humor with which it begins ends up drowning in an ocean of blood."

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
"This is a rare kind of pulp; it's boisterously destructive, funny and, at the same time, almost serene."

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post

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The Hidden

1987

Jack Sholder

6.4

(3,252)