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While many more contemporary films have played with the idea of using human bodies like puppets to commit criminal acts (like the underrated The Hidden from 1987 or, for a silly approximation of these themes, the insipid Stephanie Meyer title The Host , which Andrew Niccol unwisely tackled in 2013), Cronenberg creates a thing of wicked beauty with his sophomore effort, a troubling exercise which glistens with the sweat and blood of ideas strained through flesh.
The Monster"), but it also filches ideas from the movies Alien (1979), the John Carpenter remake of The Thing (1982), Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Hidden (1987), and even the overheated plague picture Outbreak (1995).
(A glance at Jake’s childhood VHS collection is the genre giveaway: The Mummy , Carrie , Salem’s Lot , Maniac , The Hidden , They Live .)
Before you can say Shivers or The Hidden , sluglike critters are everywhere, attacking young women in bathtubs and forcing themselves into people’s mouths.
Given its director and stars, Men in Black should have been a wacko classic to put alongside Ghostbusters and The Hidden (this movie's basic parents).
Sinister (2012)
Directed by Scott Derrickson
influenced by A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
This composer – from 110 films like “Spider-Man 3,” “Drag Me to Hell,” “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge” – upgrades an already stupefying movie into 2012’s most terrorizing.
The writer-director, Leigh Whannell , a key member of the “Saw” and “Insidious” franchise teams (though this is only the second feature he’s directed, after “Insidious 3”), would probably be perfectly happy if you watched his movie and name-checked all the influences he’s vacuumed into it, from “The Hidden” to “Ex Machina” to “The Terminator.”