The Relic
“They did the unthinkable. They brought it back.”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 58, rated by 1 admin.
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A Chicago museum hosts a gala while something enormous investigates its potential dinner guests. Detectives and scientists argue their way through a creature feature that keeps finding fresh reasons to enter a dark corridor. Stan Winston's monster work gives the familiar scare machinery a substantial occupant.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5/10
- Plot
- 7.5/10
- Effects
- 3/10
- Dialogue
- 6/10
- Rewatchability
- 7.5/10
“The museum's newest exhibit prefers its visitors uncatalogued.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 58
Synopsis and movie facts
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
- Released
- 1997
- Directed by
- Peter Hyams
- Running time
- 110 min
Starring
- Penelope Ann Miller as Dr. Margo Green
- Tom Sizemore as Lt. Vincent D'Agosta
- Linda Hunt as Dr. Ann Cuthbert
- James Whitmore as Dr. Albert Frock
- Clayton Rohner as Det. Hollingsworth
- Chi Muoi Lo as Dr. Greg Lee
- Thomas Ryan as Tom Parkinson
- Robert Lesser as Mayor Robert Owen
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: The Relic (1997), directed by Peter Hyams. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · rogerebert.com
Roger Ebert describes a catalogue of familiar horror situations and praises the experienced action direction and creature-effects team. Full review text retained from earlier catalogue research and consulted again on 2026-11-10; no claim of a fresh page download.
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