The Relic

A researcher at Chicago’s Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings…

• Director:Peter Hyams
• Genre:Horror | Thriller
• Runtime:110 minutes

Cast

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

A researcher at the Museum of Natural History of Chicago returns from South America after visiting a newly discovered tribe – the “Kothoga”. He brings some crates with him, containing his research findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner, there appears to be very little inside…just a statue and a bunch of leaves with tiny red parasites. The statue is placed in the museum’s new exhibit on superstition and preparations are made for an exclusive party of wealthy museum sponsors, which will be held that very evening in the museum. Meanwhile, the police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the United States and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D’Agosta (Tom Sizemore) who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) at the museum—she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague’s crates. Finding little to investigate, she throws the leaves away. Unknown to both the police and the museum staff and guests, there is a large creature – an Amazonian beast known as the Mbwun (translation: “He Who Walks On All Fours”) – roaming the museum, originally seeking its food from the discarded leaves, but now forced into killing its victims and eating the hypothalamus, necessary for the creature to survive. Read more

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