The film then essentially boils down to a long chase as our heroes hunt the alien as it rampages around Los Angeles, the slimy psycho using its body-hopping ability to stay one step ahead.
An alien parasite that has come to Earth to indulge in an intergalactic game of Grand Theft Auto, with us humans as the playable characters. It quickly revealed that our villain is something altogether less human and far gooier.
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All before culminating in a bullet-riddled crash that leaves our Ferrari burning and our wannabe John Dillinger full of more holes than swiss cheese. It even has a clichéd glass windowpane smashing thrown in for good measure. The sequence is well-staged and cut together, the frenetic speed of every sharp turn and near-miss making you lurch in your seat.
This clumsy (and totally not written at the last minute) intro brings me to today’s entry The Hidden, a film that uses this idea as the jumping-off point for a very fun, very 1980s sci-fi action-horror hybrid.īeginning with a bank robbery that turns into a high-speed car chase through Los Angles as our psychopathic villain barrels down the road in a stolen Ferrari, The Hidden wastes no time in delivering the goods. Almost as if they had been taken over by some otherworldly force. We are often perplexed when we hear stories in which seemingly law-abiding citizens, quiet individuals who don’t have so much as a parking ticket to their name, suddenly snap and inflict often shocking levels of violence and mayhem upon an unsuspecting populace. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Clu Gulager, Chris Mulkey, Ed O’Ross, Clarence Felder, Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar.Īn FBI agent and an LA detective team up to investigate a series of strange incidents in which seemingly innocent law-abiding citizens suddenly embark on violent crime sprees.
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