The Hidden

1987 • 97 minutes

About this movie

Daytime Emmy-nominee Michael Nouri ("The Terminal," TV's "The O.C.") and Emmy-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Kyle MacLachlan (TV's "Desperate Housewives," "Twin Peaks") star as Tom Beck and Lloyd Gallagher, a pair of Los Angeles police detectives assigned to stop a crime spree being perpetrated by what seems to be an alien intruder. When detective Tom Beck is teamed with Lloyd Gallagher to solve a puzzling case, he seems to notice the same odd gait and look in Gallagher's eyes that he has seen in the criminals. What he doesn't see at first is that, like the criminals, Gallagher is not human, that he has been sent to earth to apprehend an extraterrestrial criminal in this sci-fi thriller that has become a cult classic.

Ratings and reviews

An Eighties science fiction thriller classic that looks amazing in HD. There's a great opening car chase with amazing camerawork to start things off and then this movie opens up. One of the reasons why The Hidden (1987) still stands up today is due to director Jack Sholder orchestrating and editing the action scenes with thrilling, deft precision and realism. The physical special effects and creatures are very well designed.

Pretty good film but whoever wrote the synopsis made a mistake... Kyle M plays a FBI special agent who turns out to be an alien who's here to hunt down the alien causing havoc

Good