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Hidden continues at 9pm on BBC4, on Saturday, with previous episodes available on iPlayer.How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World is the 2019 American computer-animated action fantasy film based on the eponymous book series by Cressida Cowell. During an emotionally fraught scene between John and her ailing cop father, he remarks: вЂњOnce the job gets into your veins, it never leaves you.вЂќ You might feel the same way about Hidden. Such gruelling viewing may not be for everyone, but subverting the usual blueprint suggests Hidden has ambitions that go beyond its impeccable influences. With ramshackle buildings, clammy-walled stone dungeons and clamorous dog cages dominated by a huge gnarled tree in the courtyard, HarrisвЂ™s creepy lair seemed like a cross between Follyfoot and compound in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.Д«y never cutting away to show us John and Vaughn вЂ“ the cops supposedly tasked with saving the day вЂ“ this tense episode trapped the audience with the victim and created a tangible sense of helplessness, horror and isolation.

The whole episode focused on the aftermath of this latest abduction, never leaving the creepy woodland home where the quarryman lives with his overbearing mother and a wary nine-year-old daughter. Fate had delivered a new victim, one we had come to know and care about, into HarrisвЂ™s red rust-bucket 4x4 truck. Hidden is now halfway through its eight-episode run, and if the first three instalments felt like enough to get a decent handle on JohnвЂ™s character вЂ“ driven, fearless and determined to do right by the missing girls, even if her shiftless partner DS Owen Vaughn (Sion Alun Davies) seemed rather less invested вЂ“ episode four veered off into an unexpected direction. As well as a gorgeously gothic credits sequence, it features handsomely brooding landscapes, offbeat interior locations that go far beyond the usual bland corridors/offices of cop drama, and an ominous, skin-prickling soundtrack skilfully employed to heighten the sense of dread. Hidden is perhaps the most confidently stylish and stylised yet. Amid a current powerhouse run of Wales-set dramas (alongside Hinterland there have been the gothic chiller Requiem and the forthcoming second series of the Big Little Lies-style domestic noir Keeping Faith (Un Bore Mercher).

#The hidden movie soundtrack professional#

With the whodunnit question answered, the dark pleasures of Hidden come from witnessing buried secrets getting exhumed вЂ“ both personal and professional вЂ“ and the nail-biting escalation of the cat-and-mouse game between John and Harris.

Hidden also lifts a trick from The Fall, in that viewers know who the villain is early doors вЂ“ Dylan Harris, a scruffy, scrawny local quarry worker tightly swaddled in workwear and trucker cap played with a nervy, haunted intensity by Rhodri Meilir.

As well as pointing to The Bridge as a touchstone, co-creator Mark Andrew has also identified Prime Suspect, The Silence of the Lambs and True Detective as key influences, the sort of well-crafted procedurals where atmosphere and mood can be as important as investigation and deduction. Hidden comes from the makers of Hinterland, another Welsh-language crime drama that wore its Scandi-noir influences on its sleeve. Sion Alun Davies and Sian Reese-Williams in Bridging the gap вЂ¦ Hidden (Craith).