Hideaway

Year of release : 1995

Run time : 1h46m

Genre : Supernatural Horror

Cast : Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Sisto, Christine Lahti

The movie is loosely based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, who hated the finished project so much, as it didn't have much in common with his book, he wanted his name removed from the credits.

The movie opens with a d3vil worshiper who, after k1lling his mother and sister, commits a ritualistic suicide, reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards, and throwing himself into an athame ( a ceremonial blade, used by sat@nists and witches) to make sure his soul is eternally damned.

Hatch Harrison spends his vacation with his family at a lovely location, and decides to return home that very evening. Not paying attention to the road, because he was looking at his daughter in the review mirror, he crashes his car into a river. He manages to get his daughter out before the car falls, and in the fall hits his head, being rescued by his wife!

At the hospital his wife thinks he died, but the doctor tells her he is alive and well.

After this, he starts having dreams of murder, and he starts believing he k1lls girls who look a lot like his own daughter.

Soon he discovers he sees through the eyes of a k1ller, who is connected to him, as he sees what Hatch sees too, and hears him say his daughter's name, Regina.

His daughter is only 15, and she goes to clubs behind his back (as Hatch finds out having a vision from the k1ller who wants to get her to his layer).

Hatch seems insane to his family ,the police, whom he calls a few times, but there's no bodies at the scene.

I first watched this movie when I was a teenager, and loved it, now, not so much. The movie is good, but the visual effects bad. There's this good and evil opposition, through Hatch and his dead daughter, who represent the light, and the k1ller who calls himself "Vasago" (and builds a shrine to hell with the bodies of the people he k1lled) , and is pure evil.

SPOILERS

While I understand the pain a father must feel losing their child (it's revealed both the lead and the doctor who rescued him lost a child,the doctor losing much more than that) , I don't understand why would anyone bring someone so evil ,back. I understand it's your son, but how can you love someone who k1lled your family? The doctor says his son was psychotic since he was a kid, so he knew he was no good, and instead of having him institutionalized, he had him lose in his home, to the point he had his own altar to satan in the attic. Also, the very last scene of the movie, played after the credits, reveals the doctor resurrects the pshychot1c son again (although I thought the doctor was k1lled by his own son..)!!! At this point, I'm thinking the doctor wasn't that stable either.

Hatch seems to be the source of both tragedies in his life, the death of his daughter, Sam, as he was watching her when she was riding the bike, and the car accident which almost k1lled them all.

The wife is a strong character, who rescues her husband in the whirlpool, and then fights the k1ller who kidnaps her daughter and then catches her too. Watching this I remembered how some actresses today like to gaslight us into thinking there were no strong women in movies until them.

The title of the movie comes from the fact the serial k1ller calls his layer, his "hideaway".

The visual effects are bad, they look like the early computer games.

The soundtrack was Ok, they have choirs on rock music, and not only, which sounded good.

The movie received negative reviews, and was a box office flop, making 26 million dollars.

Rating : Worth a watch !