I wish I could remember exactly who told me to watch this/add it to my watchlist around the time I signed up for letterboxd 4 years ago, but, thanks to whoever you are, I loved it!

Almost as soon as the movie began, I was SO into it and this is coming from someone who usually loathes car chases! Watching Chris Mulkey rip through Los Angeles in a black Ferrari was the epitome of exciting! The MUSIC in this scene too, it was as if 17th century blacksmiths time-traveled to the 1980s & found themselves doing nothing but rhythmically smashing metal and iron together while on cocaine, Michael Convertino--you're incredible!

At first I was like, "hmmm, I wonder if this will…

Fire Walk with Me

Hot damn, this is so good. It's ostensibly a bodysnatcher riff but the paranoia and psychological implications of such a scenario are kept at a low, more accurately inaudible, volume, instead favoring a tone of straight-up action-adventure, akin to The Terminator but some weird version of The Terminator where you actually care about the cops being massacred by this evil, unstoppable creature.

I had not seen Twin Peaks when I first watched this movie four years ago, but man alive the parallels are unmissable. Kyle MacLachlan plays a strange FBI agent from Seattle partnered with local police in order to catch an evil entity that possesses human bodies. They eventually form a close bond despite their…

In the police station, someone walks behind Beck's desk with a propane flame thrower, confiscated on the streets, and I'm thinking yep, that's gonna figure! I wasn't disappointed, but you have to wait most of the movie to see it in action - the fiery denouement is worth the wait though! Hot damn.

The Hidden is a bit of a hidden gem from the late 80s - think Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Terminator for a dust up in a dark alley presided over by Lethal Weapon. New Line had faith in the project; at $5m, it was the largest budget they'd shelled out to date at the time. Helmed by Nightmare 2 director Jack Sholder, working from…

Geoff T's Hoop-Tober 3.0 Challenge
The Hidden (1987)

Of course I wasn't going to get through Hoop-Tober without putting at least one 80s/90s action-thriller as part of the lineup. Directed Jack Sholder (Nightmare on Elm Street 2), I went into The Hidden sold on it's premise alone, and came out disappointed, but more so at the fact that such an enjoyable and batshit-insane romp could go unnoticed.

The Hidden follows a parasitic alien who is going on a murderous and destructive GTA-style crime spree through the streets of Los Angeles, while police chief Beck (Michael Nouri) and FBI agent Lloyd (Kyle MacLachlan) are constantly on it's tail. All while switching between different human bodies, the alien engages in high-speed pursuits…

''Yo, hippy, what kind of dude are you?''

A body-snatcher sci-fi twist on the buddy cop genre that evokes late-80s LA in just the most wonderful way.

The Hidden follows Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri, an FBI agent and LAPD officer respectively, as they hunt down and kill a parasitic alien spree killer who hops from body to body to avoid capture.

It's that simple, and it's exactly as fun as it sounds.

A gooey snake-bug is wriggling down the throats of strippers, businessmen, and antiques dealers, and using their bodies to go on murderous rampages.
When the host is so damaged by cops' bullets and car crashes that it's no longer viable, the grub-spider crawls out of the old…

This movie is mostly trash - at times, inspired trash, at others, woefully undermotivated and amateurish trash. From the poster, I was almost certain we'd see the hot eastern european guy who bangs the mom on Six Feet Under get taken over quickly: as the movie crawls along, with its antagonist moving from host to host, the viewer never gets to successfully imprint on a menacing character. Its picaresque structure feels ramshackle and unfocused, while the existing characterization for Kyle MacLachlan (playing a square federal agent investigating mysterious crimes and attempting to cooperate with local authorities) has to majorly swerve to accommodate a late plot twist. The way the entity burns through bodies lends the movie a leaden pace, presenting…