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The Relic
1997
· Movie
· 110 min
D
MEANRANK
51/100
Every rating
29–68
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 29, highest is Google on 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A homicide detective and an evolutionary biologist investigate a series of gruesome murders at a Chicago museum. The killings coincide with the arrival of a mysterious crate from South America. They discover a legendary creature is stalking the darkened halls of the museum, a predator that metabolizes its victims' hypothalamus glands.
Details
- Director
- Peter Hyams
- Writers
- Amanda Silver, Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa
- Based on
- Relic by Douglas Preston
- Released
- 10 January 1997
- Country
- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $34.0M
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