Hideaway

HIDEAWAY opens with a double murder committed by a young, leering man named Jeremy (Jeremy Sisto), who immediately commits suicide in an occult / ritualistic fashion. We get to see Jeremy's apparent, cartoon afterlife, and it's not pretty!

The scene switches to the Harrison family- Hatch (Jeff Goldblum), Lindsey (Christine Lahti), and daughter Regina (Alicia Silverstone). Heading home after a vacation, they are involved in a terrible accident. Lindsey and Regina suffer minor injuries, but Hatch is critically wounded.

Brought back from death by Dr. Jonas (Alfred Molina), Hatch starts having nightmares about a series of murders. Not a believer in the supernatural, he looks for a logical explanation, especially when one of his dreams comes true! Things get even weirder from this point, with more murders and spooky goings on.

Goldblum spends the remainder of the movie running around wild-eyed, while Ms. Lahti weeps and screams a lot. As usual, Ms. Silverstone spends most of her screen time being pouty, but she's not in it much. As for Sisto, he tries hard to be eeevil, but can't quite shake his mop-headed, male model persona. Not even in sunglasses!

HIDEAWAY is barrels of fun to watch. Although the CGI sequences are less than spectacular, they were probably "state of the art" for a film such as this back in 1995...