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The Relic
The Relic follows a homicide detective and an anthropologist as they try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser and goes on a people eating rampage.
23 July 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 September 1956, Rochester, New York, USA
2 April 1945, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
January 09, 2004
Gory as heck, but still well-crafted monster movie fun.
January 01, 2000
Miller turns every scene that requires the slightest display of emotion into an overblown Oscar clip, complete with piercing wails and glycerine tears.
July 06, 2010
No doubt the bill for Energizers alone took up a big chunk of this gory clunker's $48-million budget.
April 06, 2010
A slick, witty, and unexpectedly effective little genre throwback.
January 01, 2000
Gore seekers need only to know the body count is high and the scares are cheap as director Peter Hyams shares his beast's repellent disregard for human life.
October 08, 2005
A terrific monster movie with an edge. A bloody good time.
April 16, 2010
The story comes from a million other movies (mainly Jaws and Alien), and it's completely and totally predictable.
November 05, 2003
Monster runs through museum. Audience gets bored.
December 23, 2006
Though based on an original and respected novel, Hyams' horror thriller comes across as a pastiche of the genre's conventions as evident in major pictures of the past two decades, such as Jaws and the first two Alien films.
