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Dominican Rep. The Relic
- Original title
- The Relic
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Penelope Ann Miller
Tom Sizemore
Linda Hunt
James Whitmore
Clayton Rohner
Chi Muoi Lo- Thomas Ryan
Robert Lesser
Brian Steele- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United States-United Kingdom-Germany;
Pacific Western, Tele-München, Universal Pictures. Distributor: Cloud Nine Entertainment, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Marubeni, Toho-Towa, Paramount Pictures. Broadcast by: BBC- Genre
- Horror. Mystery | Monsters
- Synopsis
- Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts from a colleague performing fieldwork in Brazil. Among the contents are leaves containing a rare fungus that, unknown to Green or anyone else, attracts the palate of a rapidly mutating, lizard-like monster called Kothoga that has stowed away on a Brazilian freighter and has found a subterranean route into the museum from Lake Michigan.
Before long, several museum employees have become decapitated snack food for the beast that prefers to dine on human hypothalamuses and pituitary glands. Despite dire warnings from the museum staff, a gruff coroner (Audra Lindley) and the investigating detective, Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore), the Windy City's oblivious mayor orders a black-tie museum fundraiser to proceed. During the event, the building's high-tech security system locks Green, D'Agosta, the mayor, and many chi-chi party guests in with the hungry animal, forcing everyone to attempt an escape through an underground waterway with which Kothoga is all too familiar.- Critics' reviews
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"Yes, we've seen it all before. But The Relic proves that the hoariest cliches, when stirred together with enough money, shaken vigorously and artfully lighted, can still make the adrenaline surge"
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"Hyams the director operates at too much of a fevered pitch for things not to eventually get out of hand -- accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense"
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"All of this is actually a lot of fun, if you like special effects and gore."
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"If you can stagger around the plot holes, the last 30 minutes are pure, dumb monster-movie fun"
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"There are moments when The Relic is almost enjoyable (...) Unfortunately, when all is said and done, this horror/science fiction amalgamation seems like nothing more ambitious than a bad reworking of elements from Aliens"
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