![]() Disconnecting his life-support equipment, he approaches the comatose Miller in the next bed. When told of DeVries’s condition, Gallagher rushes off to the hospital.Īt the hospital, DeVries suddenly awakens. Beck has been assigned to work with Gallagher to track down DeVries. Upon his return to police headquarters, Beck meets FBI Special Agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan). DeVries is taken to a hospital, where a doctor informs Beck and his partner that DeVries is not expected to survive the night. DeVries is shot several times, smashes through the blockade and crashes the Ferrari he is driving. The chase ends when DeVries encounters a police blockade overseen by Detective Thomas Beck. Jack DeVries robs a bank, kills all of the security guards and leads the Police Department on a high-speed chase. A local officer and mysterious FBI agent are in pursuit of the extraterrestrial. An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent killing spree. With Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O’Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder, William Boyett, Richard Brooks, Catherine Cannon, Larry Cedar, John McCann, Chris Mulkey.The Hidden is a Sci-Fi horror film that was directed by Jack Sholder, releasing in 1987. Executive producers Stephen Diener, Lee Muhl, Dennis Harris, Jeffrey Klein. ![]() ‘THE HIDDEN’ A New Line Cinema/Heron Communications presentation of a Robert Shaye production in association with Mega Entertainment and Michael Meltzer. It even ends on a quiet note of touching self-sacrifice, but by then you may find yourself too numb to care. There’s no denying that “The Hidden” (MPAA-rated: R) looks great and moves like a tornado. MacLachlan, to whom seeming strange must come easily in the wake of “Blue Velvet” and “Dune,” and Nouri offer an amusing contrast to each other, and there’s the larger contrast of Nouri’s solid, normal domestic life and the nightmare that’s beginning to engulf the city. Even so, Gallagher clearly knows more about what’s going on than he’s prepared to reveal to Beck. LAPD detective Tom Beck (the rugged, mature Michael Nouri) reluctantly teams up with FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (pale, boyish Kyle MacLachlan), who seems a little weird, especially when Beck takes him home to dinner. However, so many people are likely to flock to this film that there’s no point in giving away its gimmick it suffices to say that it’s appropriately gruesome. Mulkey is just the first of a group of law-abiding types, including a stunning stripper (Claudia Christian) and even a pet dog, who mysteriously turn into robot-like mass killers whose appetites, whether for fancy cars, sex or food, must be gratified immediately-the consequences of delay are dire in the extreme. The caustic dark humor with which it begins ends up drowning in an ocean of blood. “The Hidden” has enough smarts that it doesn’t need to be so total and unrelieved a massacre. Director Jack Sholder, who did “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2,” and writer Bob Hunt have set up an entertainment clever enough to snag us, but they can’t seem to resist going all out in appealing to the lowest common denominator. Its sheer energy and imagination are seductive but finally the awesome body count becomes a turnoff. This destruction derby is just a taste of things to come, for this action thriller is as unstintingly violent as it is crudely ingenious. Police Department on a long and totally reckless chase. As “The Hidden” (citywide) opens, a neatly dressed man (Chris Mulkey) holds up a bank, hops in a black Ferrari 308 and leads the L.A.
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