![]() ![]() police detective Tom Beck (Nouri) totally baffled. The movie was directed by Jack Sholder, whose last film was "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2." I don't know what I was expecting, but certainly not this original and efficient thriller. Now, only Kyle MacLachlan (Dune, Twin Peaks) and Michael Nouri (Flashdance) can halt the terrifying rampage of The Hidden A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. Meanwhile, the killer moves from one host body to another, taking a guided tour of Earth life-forms (his hosts include a dog and a stripper). As he gradually begins to believe his story, his problem is to deal with his fellow cops, who don't believe in spacemen. MacLachlan plays his alien with a certain strange reserve, as if he's trying the controls very lightly, afraid of going into a spin.Īt first, Nouri naturally assumes this FBI guy is simply another weirdo. Jeff Bridges had a similar challenge in " Starman," in which he played an alien who cloned a human body and then tried to find his way around in it. Rating: R Genre: Sci-fi Original Language. ![]() In pursuit of the extraterrestrial criminal is an FBI agent, and the local officer investigating the rash of violence. Movie Info An FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) and a homicide detective (Michael Nouri) hunt the current human host of an orally exchanged alien life-form. It also has a sense of humor, and some subtle acting by MacLachlan, whose assignment is to play a character who always is just a beat out of step. An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent crime spree in LA, committing dozens of murders and robberies. ![]() "The Hidden" takes this situation and makes a surprisingly effective film out of it, a sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. Taking the best of recent sci-fi, action and cop films, this movie adds a new twist, throws in a demonic dog and comes up with some entertaining - and scary - fare. 'The Hidden' opens with a brutal bank robbery and a violent chase scene, and for a moment I thought I was in for another routine cop movie. "Are we talking spaceman here?" Nouri asks, and we are. Both the killer and the so-called FBI agent are from another planet. R 1 hr 36 min Oct 30th, 1987 Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with. Nouri discovers the key to this mystery about half an hour after we've figured it out for ourselves. ![]()
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