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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Peter Hyams
Writers (WGA):
Douglas Preston (novel) and
Lincoln Child (novel) ...
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Release Date:
10 January 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Thriller more
Tagline:
They did the unthinkable. They brought it back. more
Plot:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(12 articles)
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 (From Fangoria. 1 March 2009, 8:45 PM, PST)

User Comments:
My Favorite monster movie. more (140 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Penelope Ann Miller ... Dr. Margo Green

Tom Sizemore ... Lt. Vincent D'Agosta

Linda Hunt ... Dr. Ann Cuthbert
James Whitmore ... Dr. Albert Frock

Clayton Rohner ... Det. Hollingsworth

Chi Muoi Lo ... Dr. Greg Lee
Thomas Ryan ... Tom Parkinson
Robert Lesser ... Mayor Robert Owen

Diane Robin ... The Mayor's Wife
Lewis Van Bergen ... John Whitney
Constance Towers ... Mrs. Blaisedale

Francis X. McCarthy ... Mr. Blaisedale
Audra Lindley ... Dr. Zwiezic

John Kapelos ... McNally

Tico Wells ... Bailey
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Das Relikt (Germany)
Das Relikt - Das Museum der Angst (Germany) (TV title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for monster violence and gore, and for language.
Runtime:
110 min
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
One of the sound effects is a floppy disk drive access sound from an Apple Macintosh computer (not the Silicon Graphics computers). more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: Dr. Whitney's crates containing the rare leaves are being shipped from Brazil, and the ship on which the kothoga journeys is "registered out of Brazil." Yet in the scene where Dr. Whitney races to try to keep the crates from shipping out, the captain and the dockworkers and crew are speaking Spanish rather than Portuguese. more
Quotes:
Dr. Albert Frock: What could a young cop like you want with an old fossil like me? more
Movie Connections:
References Alien (1979) more
Soundtrack:
SUNRISE more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
My Favorite monster movie., 21 July 2004
8/10
Author: Francisco Pimentel from Azores, Portugal

This one is my favorite of all monster movies. It has the perfect violence and gore. As the monster itself. Before I bought this movie I checked out some comments at IMDb, and they where pretty good. So I spent my savings on it, and when I got home I saw it alone at night. I jumped a few times, specially on the see where we see for the first time the monster attacking. The story is awesome and imaginative, like the ancient relic and the lost tribe that makes a drink with some leaves that further in the film we see that those leaves carry a red fungus that contain lots of different animal hormones. He drinks the drink, and starts to feel strange, and later he transforms into a creature that needs those leaves with the fungus to survive. If he doesn't has the leaves he rips off peoples heads and eats its hipotalamus(part of the brain)that contain the same hormones. Then the monster goes to the coal tunnels and reaches the museum, and strange murders happen in the museum. The special efx are good as so the mechanical beast. Tom Sizemore has a good role playing detective "Vincent D'Agosta", so as Penelope Ann Miller playing Biologist Margo Green. Both acting and dialogue is very good. And I truly recommend this one if you are a "monster" movie lover like me.

I give this one 9 stars. Enjoy it if you dare see this movie.

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