A film that I had never heard of made by the Duffer brothers who are responsible for the TV hit Stranger Things. Actually, as of 2023 this is their one and only feature film which I assume was never theatrically released. It's small, it's short and it's pretty depressing for the longest time, but it also eventually turns into one very nerve racking little piece of cinema with a twist at the end that I didn't see coming. A brief description is this is about a family locked away in a fallout shelter to escape entities that they call the breathers. This all takes place after some virus rapidly spreads among humans that we learn little about other than it exists. There is a hint midway through the film what that end twist might be, but it never entered my mind. The cast is good led by the always dependable Alexander Skarsgård along with Andrea Riseborough with a child actor by the name of Emily Alyn Lind who is pretty damn good. This is a minor sci-fi horror film that's not half bad, but I do have to question how a rat could eat through a dozen tin cans of food along with all of its contents without ever once knocking a can over. In the big picture that's a minor issue, but it comes rather early and its lack of logic made me unnecessarily cautious of what I was viewing.
Review of Hidden
