However, Medavoy was removed from the film and new production staff did not communicate with Koontz about the film which departed drastically from his novel. On his own website, Koontz states that pre-production of the film was promising under Mike Medavoy who wanted to preserve Koontz's vision for the story and ordered a rewrite of the first script at Koontz's request.
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According to Washington Post's Rita Kempley, "Koontz hates the movie so much he tried to force TriStar to remove his name from the credits." In addition, according to the San Francisco Chronicle's Walter Addiego, Koontz was so dissatisfied with Hideaway that he would only allow a film adaptation of his novel Phantoms to be made if he was allowed to approve the final version of the film. Koontz was reportedly unsatisfied with the film. I'm saying: You want horror, you want psychic abandon, you want Rae Dawn Chong reading Jeff Goldblum's Tarot cards and not liking what she sees, you see this movie, you get your money's worth." He wrote: "Look, I'm not saying this is a great movie, or even a distinguished one. He characterized it as a standard fare horror film that accomplishes its modest goals via good performances by a talented cast. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a poor review, but stated that Goldblum's performance "makes a tedious film intermittently tolerable." Film critic/historian Leonard Maltin characterized the movie as a "bomb" and added, "This goes nowhere for nearly two interminable hours." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a rare positive review, 3 stars out of a possible 4. The film received negative reviews from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes reporting that 11 out of the 13 reviews they tallied were negative for a score of 15% and a certification of "rotten". Jeremy Sisto as Vassago / Jeremy Nyebern.He then hugs Lindsay and falls back to sleep. Hatch wakes up in his bed, realizing he was only dreaming. The operation is a success, but Vassago wakes up, takes a scalpel, and slits a nurse's throat. The final scene after the credits shows Vassago being pulled in to be revived again. With his family safe, he exits the park with them. Harrison (revealing himself to Vassago as "Uriel," Vassago's antithesis) is the victor, killing Vassago and saving Regina. As Harrison and his wife find them, the souls of Vassago and Harrison collide in battle. Vassago then kidnaps Regina, taking her to an abandoned amusement park where he kills his father after being confronted by him. After his suicide, he had been revived from the dead by his father. Nyebern and he had killed his mother and sister. It is then revealed that Vassago, whose real name is Jeremy Nyebern, is the son of Dr. Harrison visits a psychic (Chong) who confirms his beliefs and tells him that Vassago is also having visions in which he can see through Harrison's eyes. Harrison attempts to stop Vassago from murdering only to be told that he is experiencing mental problems by his family, his psychiatrist, and the police. The man, who is identified as "Vassago", talks to Harrison's daughter at a night club, which Harrison sees in his visions. The character Harrison sees committing the murders is later shown to be the same character who committed suicide in the opening sequence. Harrison realizes that the murders are actually happening when the women he sees being murdered are announced as missing in news reports. These involve him seeing murders through the eyes of a killer.
He then concludes that his visions of heaven were merely a dream.Īfter the accident and subsequent revival, Harrison begins to experience other mysterious visions. Upon being revived back to life, Hatch wakes up to learn that his wife Lindsay (Lahti), and daughter Regina (Silverstone), were also involved in the car accident but escaped without serious injuries. Hatch then enters Heaven and is merged into the light of a great angel. During this time, Hatch experiences visions of the same tunnels of light as the killer from the first scene, but upon arriving for judgement is slowly floated into a surreal setting, where he sees his young daughter who died years before in a car accident. Harrison gets into a car accident and is pronounced dead, only to be revived two hours later by specialist Dr.
Hatch Harrison (Goldblum) is on a drive with his family. What follows next is a near-death experience where the now dead killer flies through tunnels of light, eventually arriving at a gaping, tentacle like being of light who, after flashing through scenes of the recent brutal murders, darkens and casts the killer's soul down into Hell. He then commits suicide by throwing himself onto an athame in order to damn his soul. After killing two women and ritualistically arranging their bodies as a sacrifice to Satan, a Devil worshipper (Sisto) invokes a Satanic verse in a room filled with candles and Satanic imagery.
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