12 Hidden Sci-Fi Movies You've Probably Never Seen
11. The Hidden
The eighties were a strong decade for the venerable institution of the sci-fi thriller horror, an oddball genre hybrid which brought us classics like the better-than-you-remember LA set Predator 2. Also amongst the sci-fi thriller horror’s achievements is this 1987 cop action flick The Hidden, a movie which transpired to be well titled given how overlooked it would become despite its stellar cast and ingenious premise.
Starring future Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan, fresh from his starring role in Blue Velvet, as an FBI agent very different from Dale Cooper, the film follows a pair of cops as they struggle to chase down a body-hopping alien parasite which is driving citizens of LA to murderous rampages before bouncing onto a new victim.
Gross, gory, and unceasingly tense, the film boasts a couple of choice car chases to go with its inventive body horror premise and has plenty to recommend for fans of action films, thrillers, horrors, and of course, high octane sci-fi.