THE HIDDEN

1987 · Jack Sholder · United States · 97 min

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14th May @ 18:45 Golem Alhóndiga (Sala 2)

A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. police detective Tom Beck totally baffled. It doesn’t help when mysterious F.B.I. agent Lloyd Gallagher tells him that a ruthless extra-terrestrial creature is invading the bodies of innocent victims—transforming them into inhuman killers with an intense fondness for heavy metal music, red Ferraris and unspeakable violence!

Jack Sholder was born in Philadelphia where he studied to become a classical trumpet player. After a year studying chemical engineering, he attended the University of Edinburgh and L’Université de Besançon and graduated from Antioch College with a degree in English literature. Sholder began his career as a film editor, working on the feature documentary King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis (1970) which was nominated for an Academy Award. He won an Emmy in 1980 for his editing work on 3-2-1 Contact. After writing and directing several award-winning short films, Sholder directed Alone in the Dark (1982), then wrote Where Are the Children (1986) and directed A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985). His next feature, The Hidden (1987), won many awards including the Grand Prix at the Avoriaz Film Festival. Premiere Magazine called it “one of the ten most underrated films of the ’80s.” In 2004, Jack founded the Film & Television Production program at Western Carolina University where he was Professor and Director of the program until 2017 when he got retired