The Hidden (1987 film)

"Look, Ed, Tom Beck is the best I've got. If I give him to you, I'll never get him back again. My department will then crumble, crime will run rampant, the city will fall into ruin, rampaging hordes will control the streets, and life as we know it will end."

"[Holds a gun to Detective Beck's chest, revealing that this is merely Masterson's body, hosting the film's eponymous parasite.] I've already shot you once before. I can't tell you how much I'm waiting to do that to you again."

"[I]t's every actress's worst nightmare to see her butt fifty feet tall in a movie theater. I decided that I needed to lose more weight for the role and visited a place called the Lindora Clinic where they put me on a 500-calorie-a-day diet and shot me full of a combination of vitamins and a substance that I would later discover to be pregnant-horse urine. My first day on set I was scheduled to perform the strip scene. The director, Jack Sholder, was not a happy man when he discovered that I'd duped him in regard to my physical attributes. Luckily, I'd already come clean to the wardrobe mistress, who'd set about designing a set of prosthetic breasts that I could wear under a cut-off T-shirt. It was a double win for me, because it meant that I also got to dodge the topless scene that Jack had planned on filming. [...] I attended the premiere of The Hidden and was pleased that my fake boobs looked convincing. Whether the horse piss worked I don't know, but when my butt had its premiere on the big screen, I breathed a sigh of relief; the nightmare had been averted—my alien-possessed ass looked pretty damn good."

"There are a couple of aliens, and the bad one is particularly obstreperous. The creature is a parasite, and I don't mean that figuratively. (It looks like something you might find rooting around in the trash out behind a Lobster Shack.) To get around -- and it likes to get around -- it has to enter the body of a living being, and in this regard it's not too picky. It does have very selective tastes, however, and they run toward rock music, loud, and Ferraris, red if possible. (He's sort of a "Miami Vice" alien.)"

"The Hidden is a textbook example of how a B-movie can transcend its origins and budgetary constraints through craft, imagination, and all-around resourcefulness. Shifting genres almost as often as its villain changes bodies, it's at once an enormously effective thriller, a smart exercise in science fiction, an exciting action movie, and a kinetic dark comedy. [...] With the benefit of 13 years of hindsight, The Hidden's villainous extraterrestrial chameleon emerges as the ultimate '80s consumer run amok: a being of pure desire with a taste for the finer things (it makes a point of stealing only expensive sports cars), that lives for the moment and doesn't care about the consequences of its actions."

"IT'S ONLY HUMAN ON THE OUTSIDE."

"- Agent Lloyd Gallagher/Robert Stone/Alhague"

"- Det. Thomas Beck"

"Richard Brooks - Det. Sanchez"

"- Brenda Lee Van Buren"

"- Jack DeVries"

"- Jonathan P. Miller"

"John McCann - Senator Holt"

"- Lt. John Masterson"

"- Lt. Ed Flynn"

"- Det. Cliff Willis"

"- Agent Stadt"

"- Barbara Beck"

"- Ferrari Salesman"

"Danny Trejo - a prisoner"

"- Carol Miller"