The Relic

About The Relic

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Peter Hyams's The Relic is a 1997 horror mystery film. Its themes are god, museum, amazon rainforest, and dead body.

Penelope Ann Miller takes the lead as Dr. Margo Green, Tom Sizemore as Lt. Vincent D'Agosta, Linda Hunt as Dr. Ann Cuthbert, and James Whitmore as Dr. Albert Frock. Released in January 1997, it runs 110 minutes.

The screenplay is by Amanda Silver and Amy Holden Jones. It was produced by BBC, Marubeni, and Mutual Film Company. The film began as a novel. It streams on Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount Plus Essential, and Paramount Plus Premium in the United States.

Horror Express, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Creature from the Black Lagoon make useful companions to The Relic, all filed under anthropologist, creature, and monster. TMDB voters put it at 6.2 out of 10 across 668 votes and it carries a R rating.