Jack Sholder has got to be one of the most under rated directors of the 80s. I have only watched two of him films now, Alone in the Dark and The Hidden, but I‘ll be damned if I wasn’t extremely entertained by both of them. As far as I am concerned he has tackled both action and horror with a high level of success.
The story behind The Hidden involves the L.A.P.D battling with an alien that can take over human bodies, turning them into killing and stealing machines with zero emotion. Let me tell you, cops vs. aliens has never been this much fun. The alien in this movie has an insatiable lust for 4 things: Ferraris, punk rock music, guns, and women. He takes what he wants, when ever he wants, and kills everyone that tries to stop him.
Anyway, the alien uses the body that he is currently inhabiting until the body has taken so much damage that it becomes unusable and it must find a new one. It takes over old guys, a stripper, the police chief, and then a California Senator.
The action scenes in this movie are pure 80s awesomeness. There are car chases, tons of really fun shootouts and let’s not forget alien murder sprees. I’m not going to write too much about the content because I am just going to let the trailer do the talking.
After watching that and you still aren’t sold on the coolness of this film then you and I have different tastes my friend.
The only other thing I want to say about the movie actually involves an element of the plot that they keep “hidden” from the audience for the first half of the movie. So if you want to go in spoiler free then stop reading now.
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The character played by Kyle MacLauchlan is an alien disguised as an F.B.I. agent pursuing the evil alien. The problem here is they have him act so clueless about every aspect of human culture that there is no way he could pass for an intelligent high ranking agent. Yet when he is paired with a hot shot L.A. detective to work the murder cases that keep popping up the detective just thinks that he is a little quirky. Now I don’t know about you but if I handed my partner and Alka-Seltzer tablet and he put it in his mouth like he had no idea what it was I would feel very unsure about his ability to back me up during a shootout. That Alka-Seltzer tablet scene actually happens in the movie, I kid you not.
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The character played by Kyle MacLauchlan is an alien disguised as an F.B.I. agent pursuing the evil alien. The problem here is they have him act so clueless about every aspect of human culture that there is no way he could pass for an intelligent high ranking agent. Yet when he is paired with a hot shot L.A. detective to work the murder cases that keep popping up the detective just thinks that he is a little quirky. Now I don’t know about you but if I handed my partner and Alka-Seltzer tablet and he put it in his mouth like he had no idea what it was I would feel very unsure about his ability to back me up during a shootout. That Alka-Seltzer tablet scene actually happens in the movie, I kid you not.
Next I am going to follow writer Jim Kouf to a film he produced in 1993, Kalifornia. It also happens to star Brad Pitt and David Duchovny.
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