Gallagher and Beck pursue her to a rooftop, where they mortally wound her in a gun battle. They proceed to have sex in his car which results in his death. Brenda is then propositioned by a stranger she accepts and follows him to his car. Gallagher asks police to track Brenda when he sees her picture next to Miller's body. He then visits a strip club, where the alien leaves Miller's body and takes over the body of a stripper named Brenda. He then goes to a car dealership, where he kills three men and steals a red Ferrari. Miller goes to a record store where he beats the store's owner to death. Gallagher tells Beck to put out an alert on Miller, but Beck refuses, because Miller has no criminal record. Gallagher arrives to find DeVries dead on the floor and Miller's bed abandoned. After DeVries forces Miller's mouth open, a slug-like alien emerges from DeVries' mouth and transfers itself into Miller's body. Disconnecting his life-support equipment, he approaches the comatose man in the next bed, Jonathan P. Meanwhile, at the hospital, DeVries suddenly awakens. When told of DeVries's condition, Gallagher rushes off to the hospital. Upon his return to LAPD headquarters, Beck and his supervisor, Lieutenant John Masterson, meet FBI Special Agent Lloyd Gallagher, who informs them that Beck has been assigned to work with Gallagher to track down DeVries. DeVries is taken to a hospital, where a doctor informs Beck and his partner, Detective Cliff Willis, 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, a quiet citizen with no criminal past, robs a Los Angeles Wells Fargo bank, kills all of the security guards inside, and leads the Los Angeles Police Department on a high-speed chase. A sequel, The Hidden II, was directed by Seth Pinsker and released in 1993. It stars Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri, along with Clu Gulager, Chris Mulkey, Ed O'Ross, Clarence Felder, Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar, and received mostly positive reviews. The movie was directed by Jack Sholder, whose last film was "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2." I don't know what I was expecting, but certainly not this original and efficient thriller.The Hidden is a 1987 American science fiction horror film directed by Jack Sholder, written by Jim Kouf (under the pseudonym Bob Hunt), and released by New Line Cinema. Meanwhile, the killer moves from one host body to another, taking a guided tour of Earth life-forms (his hosts include a dog and a stripper). As he gradually begins to believe his story, his problem is to deal with his fellow cops, who don't believe in spacemen. MacLachlan plays his alien with a certain strange reserve, as if he's trying the controls very lightly, afraid of going into a spin.Īt first, Nouri naturally assumes this FBI guy is simply another weirdo. Jeff Bridges had a similar challenge in " Starman," in which he played an alien who cloned a human body and then tried to find his way around in it. It also has a sense of humor, and some subtle acting by MacLachlan, whose assignment is to play a character who always is just a beat out of step. "The Hidden" takes this situation and makes a surprisingly effective film out of it, a sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. "Are we talking spaceman here?" Nouri asks, and we are. Both the killer and the so-called FBI agent are from another planet. Nouri discovers the key to this mystery about half an hour after we've figured it out for ourselves.
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