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Can’t believe I forgot Hellraiser
Watched the blu-ray of The Hidden last night. Really holds up, and it’s made with such a good eye for L.A. locations and its swift pace still allows time to give a real sense of the police unit Nouri’s character works in, there are at least half a dozen other cops who get casual character beats, and there are legitimately stellar small performances given by William Boyett and Claudia Christian as a two of the possessed killers (Chris Mulkey is great too but he has less to do, basically just rock out to Shok Paris and drive a Ferrari through cop cars and over hapless citizens).
Kyle MacLachlan playing an oddball FBI agent from Seattle is to put it mildly exceptionally good casting.
Jack Sholder didn’t do much else that received anywhere near the acclaim this one did but he’s good enough on this film to make me think he just didn’t get the right chances after this. The framing and editing throughout the entire movie are not attention-grabbing but they keep it moving, and the performances he got out of everyone are far beyond what a film like this would normally elicit.
It has one of those blindsiding moving endings too, which is pretty much completely earned.
There’s a bonus “blink and you miss it” Danny Trejo cameo.
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link