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The Hidden

1987

Jack Sholder

Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder ...

6.4

3,255

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Horror 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	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."	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"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."	POS
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"[It] is too predictable, and even though wickedly fun at times, it's only halfway as awesome as it might have been."	NEU
United States	Nathan Rabin AV 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"	POS
United Kingdom	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."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles 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."	NEU
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"This is a rare kind of pulp; it's boisterously destructive, funny and, at the same time, almost serene."	POS

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