Synopsis
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
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Cast
- Kyle MacLachlanLloyd Gallagher
- Michael NouriTom Beck
- Claudia ChristianBrenda Lee Van Buren
- Clarence FelderLt. John Masterson
- Clu GulagerLt. Ed Flynn
- Ed O'RossCliff Willis
- William BoyettJonathan Miller
- Richard BrooksSanchez
- Larry CedarBrem
- Katherine CannonBarbara Beck
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
The Hidden is hands down the best movie ever made about a homicidal alien slug that oozes from human host to human host. - 83
The A.V. Club
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. Shifting genres almost as often as its villain changes bodies, it's at once an enormously effective thriller, a smart exercise in science fiction, an exciting action movie, and a kinetic dark comedy. - 80
Time Out
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. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
A sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. - 75
Washington Post
This is a rare kind of pulp; it's boisterously destructive, funny and, at the same time, almost serene. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
An exciting mix of science fiction, cop thriller, and buddy film, The Hidden is one of the most exciting and unique genre hybrids. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The polish and unpretentiousness of The Hidden are enough to suggest Don Siegel's original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and there are few compliments in horror films higher than that. [30 Oct 1987, p.41C] - 60
Variety
The Hidden is a well-constructed thriller, directed with swift assurance by Jack Sholder, brought down by an utterly conventional sci-fi ending.
