![]() ![]() Beck’s colleague! It’s f*cking BODY SNATCHERS meets NIGHT OF THE CREEPS meets TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. Our cops track Miller until the alien transmutes again, to a female stripper (Claudia Christian), then a cute little dog, then another, and another person altogether. with a huge boom-box blasting rad 80s shredders. They’re mission is to track down a man named Jonathan Miller, the alien in new human form who stalks the streets of L.A. beat cop Tom Beck, played by Michael Nouri as a picture perfect cross between Chris Sarandon and Steven Bauer, and a young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan) who we can tell is slightly a bit off. And how does the alien transfer bodies? Oh my, through the goddamn mouth!Īs the alien-slug moves from host to host, two policemen are assigned to the case. The only way to kill the sucker is when it’s between bodies, using a special alien gun. In fact, inside DeVries’ body subsists an alien parasite – a giant, slimy black insectile creature – that has the ability to transfer from body to body, host to host, in order to survive. DeVries doesn’t die, despite sustaining a dozen bullet wounds. ![]() style car-chase set to a pumped-up 80s metal song, DeVries ultimately ramming his black Ferrari into a police cordon. Then we proceed to get a TO LIVE IN DIE IN L.A. ![]() A stoic-faced man named DeVries robs a Wells Fargo bank in Los Angeles, shoots the place up, stares right into the security monitor before blasting it off the wall. THE STORY: The picture opens with one hell of a grabber. It was in 1987, and frankly, as we referee its bout with a 30 year Test of Time below, it still very much is! Deftly melding intense shoot-em-up action, creepy body horror, extraterrestrial sci-fi, dryly dark comedy with a riff on the odd-couple-buddy-cop template (made extremely popular with LEATHAL WEAPON the same year mind you), THE HIDDEN is a hugely entertaining, sparsely dulling, wildly fun time at the movies. Indeed, Jack Sholder’s 1987 follow up to the woefully gauche A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2, is not only a major rebounding effort, it’s on record as being the director’s favorite film of his own. Has there ever been a movie truer to its title than THE HIDDEN? Seriously, I never hear people talk about this kick-ass alien/action mashup, certainly not as much as it deserves to be mentioned. STARRING: MICHAEL NOURI, KYLE MACLACHLAN, CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN, CHRIS MULKEY, WILLIAM BOYET However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? Do they remain must see? So…the point of this column is to determine how a film holds up for a modern horror audience, to see if it stands the Test of Time. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. ![]()
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