If you haven't seen The Hidden, I'm not too surprised. I'd never heard of it. But I'm here to tell you, it's brilliant.
LA cop Beck (Michael Nouri) is assigned to an odd case: An ordinary citizen has gone on a 2-week rampage, stealing Ferrari's, robbing banks and killing everyone in his way, while enjoying Hunters and Collectors, Concrete Blonde and Lords of the New Church. Beck gets a partner - Kyle MacLachlan, playing his patented autistic boy scout FBI agent. He won't explain, but he knows that this case is more than it seems.
This movie seems to borrow from dozens of other SciFi/Horror pics, for example, They Live! But it was made in 1987, the year before They Live! It was made before MacLachlan played a bland, quirky FBI agent in Twin Peaks. It might have borrowed the comedy/horror angle and the gleeful bloodlust from The Evil Dead (1982). The chase scenes look like GTA, but decades too soon.
So, you get a great B-grade, low-budget horror film, a sly comedy with an 80's social critique of materialism and society, and references to and previews of all kinds of stuff, like Twin Peaks and X-Files. Why has no one heard of this movie?
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