July 30, 2007
Critic At Large: The Hidden
I watched this forgotten cult movie starring Kyle Maclachlan over the weekend. It was sooo 80s; hot cars, coke-snorting yuppies, strippers with big hair, and a soundtrack full of cock rock. The plot is nothing terribly original; alien serial killer uses human hosts to inflict mayhem. But it's not awful, either. As soon as Maclachlan introduces himself as an FBI agent, I had the urge to give him directions to Twin Peaks. His discomfitting screen presence is well-suited to the role, as it turns out. Oh, fanboy fun fact: the stripper is played by the same actress (Claudia Christian) who played Susan Ivanova in the Babylon 5 series.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at July 30, 2007 08:40 PM