Hidden

I don't normally do reviews but i enjoyed this film that much that i just had to. Firstly i thought it was going to be your average zombie movie (i like zombie flicks)...it isn't. It is about an infection outbreak that is having an effect on people however it is far from average zombie film. It is unique and don't think its ever been done before. Excellent plot!!! Well delivered. Really enjoyed it. So horror it isn't but worth watching it is. With a really good twist. I cant say more without giving the game away but i really cant recommend it enough.

nice movie but boring

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Hidden by delightfully embedded narrative screws, the schematic of the post-apocalyptic zombie parable is turned on its head in a film duly concentrated on containment, quarantine and the adverse social affects of victims of bio-terrorism. As much as the set-up implies, the discernible threat of radioactive outbreak and impending annihilation is not the fundamental focus of this surprisingly insightful feature. This is not another walking dead leitmotif - far from it - this is its topical divergent. That the film conceals this so brilliantly until the end of the story, even by process of analeptic flashbacks digging towards the reveal, is a merit to how well the film's mise-en-scene is devised. Taking refuge in an underground fallout shelter outside a school atop a quaint suburbia, a family of three decide upon a methodically war-time, rationalistic survival in sustaining their existence from the catastrophic perils outside - the supposition of a viral outbreak and the consequential obliterative decay. Hence the film resorts to shooting a large chunk of the story within the minimalist locale in creating an intensified claustrophobia and an appetising mystery in stark correlation to the undisclosed remnants of the outside world. Such restraint on locality requires, accordingly, ample identification with the characters and their development. Such is established and refined by a magnificent cast-chemistry with tenable performances in due course to a sensationally written script full of dexterity in dialogue. One fine example of this is the audience's presupposed qualities of the conflictual creatures referred to as 'breathers'. Though wonderfully juxtaposed between past and present narratives in stringing along the sense of an investigatory closure, the film is at minor fault in bottle-feeding its penultimate reveal in a rehashing montage of prior scenes and dialogic double-entendre, but this shouldn't detract from the mischievous marvel of a film that utters against the grain.

Seriously, just because an idea is good, it doesn't make the movie itself good. The idea they had is an interesting twist to an apocalypse movie, but they put little or no effort into making a good movie using that idea. I hope someone does copy the idea and make a good movie. This one just isn't.

Well this is a movie I am glad I watched. It's not an horror movie though so it should not be categorized in there. But it's a nice thriller. A thriller with a twist. And that's what I like the most about movies. When you don't see it coming, a total surprise. They don't make much of those movies because most of the times you figured out the end way before the actual ending. With this one you don't have that at all. We all know Alexander Skarsgård mostly from the series True Blood. And here in Hidden he proves that he is a good actor. The rest of the cast was also good, very believable in their respective roles. Nice suspense throughout the whole movie. And with a good ending like I said. I enjoyed it and will probably watch it again in a couple years.

How am I supposed to care about a family of scum? The daughter is a Grade A brat. Unless she was mentally handicapped there was no reason for her to expose the family as she did (screaming at the top of her lungs every chance she could). After a year in that bunker she didn't know better??? In her defense, the...uh...'loving' mother continually referring to her as Zozo - against her wishes - is probably what set her off. Zoe's selfishness is apparently genetic. You're exposed to and infected by a lethal airborne virus you take yourself out. You DO NOT expose the rest of humanity to your infection simply because you refuse to face reality as did this family of lowlifes. I only hope a sequel is made so I can see the zombie sewer nest firebombed.

I am a sci/fi buff, so maybe I am more critical than a horror fan, but this movie has so many things wrong with it. First, who happens to find a fully stocked shelter in the middle of a disaster by a schoolyard, with nobody in it? Secondly, these are intelligent suburbanites in California, yet they call military personnel wearing gas masks "breathers", as if they are some kind of new monster. Thirdly, the whole movie is filmed in a small, dimly lit area and dragged on for eternity. Finally, when the surprise ending came I was relieved I could turn it off. Many more loose ends, such as what were their plans for when the food ran out and what about their kid and her future? Only gave it the extra star for not having offensive material.