The movie was directed by Jack Sholder, whose last film was "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2." I don't know what I was expecting, but certainly not this original and efficient thriller. Meanwhile, the killer moves from one host body to another, taking a guided tour of Earth life-forms (his hosts include a dog and a stripper). As he gradually begins to believe his story, his problem is to deal with his fellow cops, who don't believe in spacemen. MacLachlan plays his alien with a certain strange reserve, as if he's trying the controls very lightly, afraid of going into a spin.Īt first, Nouri naturally assumes this FBI guy is simply another weirdo. Current Filters (Click to remove) Shapeshifter - Romance Related Keywords (Click to add to filter) Relationships Gone Wrong 2 Genres (Click to add to filter) Adventure 1 - Horror 1 - Romantic Comedy 1 Creative Types (Click to add to. Jeff Bridges had a similar challenge in " Starman," in which he played an alien who cloned a human body and then tried to find his way around in it. n the latest episode of our Best Horror You Never Saw video series, we take a look at the 1987 sci-fi action horror film The Hidden, directed by Jack Sholder (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2. When a shapeshifter bites the dust they have a veritable swan song of shape shifting as they slide through every single shape theyve stolen throughout the. Note: this list contains movies that match all selected keywords and one of each of the selected classifications. It also has a sense of humor, and some subtle acting by MacLachlan, whose assignment is to play a character who always is just a beat out of step. "The Hidden" takes this situation and makes a surprisingly effective film out of it, a sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. "Are we talking spaceman here?" Nouri asks, and we are. Michael Nouri plays the cop assigned to the case. Both the killer and the so-called FBI agent are from another planet. Aiming his car at a police barricade, he allowed a little smile to flicker on his lips, and when the cops aimed a hail of bullets at him he took dozens of hits and yet still stayed upright and laughed at them. Hotch immediately discovers that this Spencer Reid is his mate, but what he doesnt know is that Reid is also a wizard. In his review, Condit criticized the film's lack of originality, weak characters, and slow pacing calling it "a thoroughly dull demonic monster in a prison flick almost completely devoid of energy or imagination.Nouri discovers the key to this mystery about half an hour after we've figured it out for ourselves. The Wizard and the Shapeshifter By: SpencerandHotchlover Hotch is a wolf shifter with a mating gene and he meets Spencer Reid shortly after he turns thirty after he rescues his sister from her boyfriend. Also, you can track what youve seen, want to see, like, or dislike, as well as track individual seasons or episodes of shows. genre, release year, runtime, and rating (Rotten Tomatoes, Imdb, and/or Metacritic). 5,423 100 The Most Noteworthy Legacy Sequels. Jon Condit from Dread Central panned the film, awarding it a score of one out of five. An unknown strange outbreak has devastated the world. Weird Movies That Make You Question Your Mental Health. Shapeshifter was released on DVD by The Asylum Home Entertainment on November 29, 2005. Inmates and guards alike become trapped in a maximum security prison when they fall prey to a demonic beast that feeds on human flesh.Īs the creature´s power multiplies with every kill, their only chance for survival is to uncover the ancient mystery that holds the power of the shapeshifter.
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