Even though "Hidden" is a low-budget horror flick, it breaks new ground for dopiness. It overexplains what should be left unstated. When there's too much explanation of how and why things are happening, the danger is sounding dumb. That's what happens here. Cliches abound, from the remote setting, cheap shocks, characters who insist on venturing off into danger, and assorted inevitable deaths.
Essentially a "Shutter Island" wannabe, "Hidden" is a pedestiran effort. There are no bonus extras on this DVD release.
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I have a orei all region blu ray player which also does 3d blu ray. And this blu ray is a region b (europeon) 3d blu ray. So without that type of player you can only watch the dvd version. This was shot in 3d and the 3d makes a HUGE difference in this movie. Many scenes are set up for 3d and in 2d the effect is lost. The movie was a joint canadian/italian low budget movie. with a mix of both canadian and italian actors who are all speaking english. The 3d here is much better than movie that was NOT shot in it and put out in 3d. Here it's outstanding! After all this was shot with 3d cameras, and there's only a few sceens with ghosting in it. Most of the 3d is just stunning. Storywise the movie is a story about living addictions and people lost in a old monastary. Which is ok, and not a one star movie. The acting was decent here and not as bad as many sci fi movies actually. The killings in this movie are actually quite bloodless and there's no gore. Which made this a pg rated movie that is safe for kids. It's just a little horror movie that you would see by the dozen throughout the years. The effects were actually very good mostly for this type of budget , if you saw them in 3d you would enjoy this much more and the effects stand out. Ok, compared to a A movie , most b movies like this are two star affairs. but on a low budget HORROR movie scale this is a decent little flick with GREAT 3d. (only for all region blu ray players though, which you can buy right here on amazon.com. ) There are no extras on this really either.Best Deals for Hidden 3D (2011)
I was thinking just the other day...what this world needs more than anything else is another movie with the title of "Hidden." And then lo and behold I saw this one! Although to be honest, the original title was "Hidden 3D" which for some strange reason the producers dropped the "3D" which I thought was odd considering the high quality of "Valentine's Day 3D."There isn't much of a mystery as the beginning explains everything. Susan Carter (Dawn Ford) runs a mental institution called "Divine Sanctuary of Hope." She has created a machine called "Ventris" because Tetras was already taken. It cures mental addiction. It injects a venom into the brain from an insect that looks like a BA CG lightning bug. The addiction then manifests itself as an infant growing inside the person like a tumor, but as Arnold would say, "It's not a tumor." No womb required.
When Susan dies, her heavy drinking son Brian (Sean Clement) inherits the place in spite of the fact he disliked his own mother. He takes a crew out to the old abandoned place including crusty Chester (Allan Kolman) who is the person movies cast when Donald Sutherland won't accept the role. Considering the low quality of roles Sutherland has taken here of late, this should be a sign as to the quality of this film.
We already know there is a creature running around killing people (it shows us) and if you've ever watched a horror movie before, you know the rest of the overly predictable plot.
Brian's friend Simon (Jason Blicker) has big resort plans for this snowy isolated establishment. Brian wants to demolish the building. The mutants are MST comical and I was laughing at scenes that were supposed to scare you. On the MST scale: 3 stars. Great movie to show kids who want to catch fireflies.
No f-bombs that I recall, no sex, no nudity. Drinking, minor drug use
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Let's start with a compliment, sort of. The low-budget endeavor "Hidden" has got to have one of the most patently ridiculous premises that I've ever seen. It is so wacky, it is almost irresistible. If you give it any serious thought (and I won't spoil it), it makes your head start to explode. How convoluted is it? The screenplay relies on the most insane method of trying to make sense of it for the audience. At two points in the movie, a computer turns itself on to have a filmed segment explain exactly what we need to know. Huh? Pretty convenient, if not incredibly sloppy and lazy. And it still doesn't make sense! The movie is filled with junk science, venomous insects, mad experiments, and dangerous addictions. It is simultaneously about all of these things and none of these things. If the movie had embraced its lunacy, it might have made for a fun guilty pleasure (still incomprehensible, but fun). As is, though, the movie plays it straight and we're left with a drab and expected narrative.Sean Clement plays the son of a revolutionary, but controversial, addiction treatment doctor. When his mother dies, he is left an old monastery (of course) where she used to do her work. Naturally, he and seven other people venture off to this remote estate to check it out. Even though it has modern renovations, it isn't accessible by road? Even though the building is immense and unoccupied, all the research was done in tunnels underneath the main building? What a waste of space! None of the characters gets much development, it's not really necessary. As anticipated, they start to get separated in increasingly preposterous ways (I particularly enjoyed the couple who ran off right away to have dank basement sex). You guessed it, there is an unseen danger lurking and our crew starts being eliminated one by one. This is essentially just a variation on an abandoned insane asylum or haunted house thriller that you've seen hundreds of times.
The environment itself is creepy and a few visual effects are nice, but it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for anything else. Who will survive? More to the point, will you care? As we get to the dramatic conclusion, this really shifts into mad scientist territory like from a B-grade fifties film. But even this is so anticlimactic and silly! Listen, I love bad movie mayhem. But "Hidden" begs us to take it seriously as a horror offering when it so clearly should have played up the campy insanity inherent in its own fantastically ridiculous plot! As is, though, it wastes the only thing that might have distinguished it from all of the other films exactly like it. Not good, but more detrimental--not fun either. KGHarris, 3/12.
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Brian Carter has plenty of reasons for his mommy issues. Growing up as the son of a well-known rehabilitation specialist who then begins to experiments on addicts, while you sit by and watch, that'll mess you up. So when his mother dies, Brian doesn't bother going to the funeral. Afterward a letter arrives via his friend Simon, telling Brian the old monastery where his mother first began her work is still standing, and is now his. Brian says burn it to the ground, but Simon says let's check it out first, there may be some worth to the old place.So Simon gathers a team of people--which consists of Simon, his girlfriend Kimberly, her brother Lucas, his girlfriend Rita and Brian' ex Vicky. There's also Haley, who meets them at the door and shows them around, giving them a little history on the building while they're at it. Plus there's an electrician trying to get the power back on.
As expected in a story as formulaic and forgettable as this one, the group slowly splits into smaller groups, which then get picked off by the mysterious creatures lurking inside the building. Their numbers dwindle until only the survivor is left, and we end with a wink and a grin as it's intimated that quite possibly the danger isn't over.
So what I'm saying is, anyone with any kind of working knowledge of the horror genre in film could have finished this script after the first ten pages. Maybe that's why it's credited to Alan Smithy and Alana Smithy (story by Mariano Baino--you've never heard of him--and Coralina Caraldi-Tassoni--veteran of Argento's OPERA and MOTHER OF TEARS). But at least it has a director, of sorts. Antoine Thomas has no directing credits before or after this movie, so make of that what you will.
The cast is a who's who of faces you may have seen once or twice, if you looked real close, but no one worth giving special attention to, especially considering the performances.
The premise is the real shame here. Dr. Susan Carter decided to try to make the addictions of the people she treated into a physical being, something that could then be killed. And, using whatever insane movie logic was at work here, she succeeded. The addictions then manifested themselves in the physical form of "babies" growing inside the addicts. So far, however, all attempts at excising the creatures resulted in the death of the patients as well. Except for Breeder 1, Dr. Carter's prize specimen.
Oh, and there's also something about a venomous firefly or something, I don't know; I was only halfway paying attention soon after the movie started.
Plot holes and logic flaws abound--apparently the building hasn't been used in over ten years, but when the power gets restored, Dr. Carter's computers are running just fine, and one accidental bump of the mouse sets one of her video diaries to playing, which I'm pretty sure is not how computers work--but even before I got to those parts, I could tell right away I wasn't in for anything special. Even the Netflix description sounds boring.
I'm not sure what the impetus was behind the making of HIDDEN 3D, but a quality horror movie wasn't it. The plot structure in unoriginal, the characters are clichés, and the lack of honest horror here is astounding. It was only 81 minutes, but it was a BORING 81 minutes.
I can't even give this movie credit as being so bad it's good, because it seems as if the makers were trying to make a serious horror movie, but there were just so many strikes against them from the beginning that, from script to screen, this thing was probably doomed every step of the way. HIDDEN 3D was boring, predictable, and not even remotely terrifying. Pass on this one.
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