Hideaway movie storyline. While traveling on the road with his wife Lindsey and his daughter Regina, Hatch Harrison has a car accident, hitting a truck and falling with his wife in a river. He dies for more than two hours, but the specialist Dr. Jonas Nyebern successfully brings him back to life.
Hatch has some weird premonitions and becomes able to see through the eyes of the psychopath serial killer Vassago, a young man that killed his mother and his sister and committed suicide and was also brought back to life and now is killing young women and teenagers. When he foresees that Vassago is trying to capture his daughter, Hatch tries to find the criminal first, in spite of Lindsay, Regina and the detective in charge of the investigation believe that he needs psychiatric help.
Hideaway is a 1995 American horror film directed by Brett Leonard. It is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, and stars Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, Christine Lahti, Jeremy Sisto, and Rae Dawn Chong. In the film, Goldblum plays a man who dies in a car accident, only to be revived two hours later. After being revived, he experiences frightening visions.
He begins to understand that he has become psychically connected to a serial killer, and that by cutting himself, he can actually induce the visions and see through the killer’s eyes. Unfortunately, the vision works both ways, and the killer can also see through his eyes. Birmingham band Godflesh make a cameo appearance during one of the film’s scenes.
Film Review for Hideaway
Beneath its supernatural pretensions, the adaptation of Dean Koontz’s “Hideaway” is horrifying only in that it’s duller than the late Jeffrey Dahmer’s meat cleaver. Koontz hates the movie so much he tried to force TriStar to remove his name from the credits. Not to worry, Dean, baby. Nobody much is going to see the picture, much less your moniker.
The pedestrian psycho killer thriller does, however, open with ghastly promise: A teenage Satanist, Vassago (Jeremy Sisto), screams, “I want to go to Hell!” and then impales himself on the weapon he used to sacrifice his mother and sister. Unfortunately, just as he is about to exit on the Hades Express, he is resuscitated by a cardiologist.
Meanwhile, on another astral plane, Hatch Harrison (Jeff Goldblum), a drowning victim, sees his recently departed daughter at the portals of Heaven. But just as he starts to follow her into the light, he is resuscitated by the same damn cardiologist, who proceeds despite his nurse’s warning: “Remember what happened the last time.”
At first, nothing seems awry; Hatch, in fact, is better than ever after his out-of-pajama experience. Prior to same, he had blamed himself for his youngest daughter’s death and so had been overprotective of his teenage daughter, Regina (Alicia Silverstone), and neglectful of his wife, Lindsey (Christine Lahti). Following his resurrection, he lets Regina go to Pearl Jam concerts and treats Lindsey to some bedroom va-va-voom.
Then one night he goes downstairs to slice up a tomato and has the first of a series of precognitive visions depicting murderous assaults upon teenage girls. The doctor says it’s nothing. His wife thinks he’s going crazy. The audience thinks he’s just killing time till the third act. Finally, he realizes that he has come back from his trip to a different plane with some extra baggage: a psychic link with a serial killer. Now, he must use the link to save his surviving daughter.
Goldblum looks dead when he’s supposed to and that’s probably the best thing that can be said about his performance. The scariest thing about Vassago, his evil nemesis, is that he’s wearing lip gloss and really should do something about those pimples. Of course, the film is not helped by the tedious direction of Brett Leonard, whose previous opus was “The Lawnmower Man.” It’s no wonder the pace he sets is as leisurely as composting.
Hideaway (1995)
Directed by: Brett Leonard
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Alfred Molina, Rae Dawn Chong, Suzy Joachim, Joely Collins, Rebecca Toolan
Screenplay by: Andrew Kevin Walker, Neal Jimenez
Production Design by: Michael S. Bolton
Cinematography by: Gale Tattersall
Film Editing by: B.J. Sears
Costume Design by: Monique Prudhomme
Set Decoration by: Elizabeth Wilcox
Art Direction by: Sandy Cochrane
Music by: Trevor Jones
Distributed by: TriStar Pictures
Release Date: March 3, 1995
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