The Relic
Year: 1997
Director: Peter Hyams
Written by: Amy Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffo, & Amanda Silver
Threat: Monster
Weapon of Choice: Fire
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The RelicYear: 1997 Director: Peter Hyams Written by: Amy Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffo, & Amanda Silver Threat: Monster Weapon of Choice: Fire IMDb page: |
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Rish Outfield's reviews
The monster was totally cool one minute, hardly believable the next. Still,
it was a fascinating conglomeration of different beasts--unlike most movie
creatures. Tom Sizemore plays a superstitious cop, and though I normally
like him, I sure didn't here. Penelope Ann Miller is as vapid as they come,
yet she's playing a scientist. Hmmm. Somewhere in my travels (Mexico City,
June 1997, it was), I picked up a Spanish version of the theatrical one-sheet
with a title (El Relico) that always makes me crack up, but I digress.
Best Scare: The creature jumps out several times.
I'd Recommend It To: Indiscriminate monster fans.
The tyranist's thoughts
I liked this movie in spite of some bad acting and a relatively unoriginal plot. I probably liked it as much as I did
because of the Stan Winston monster. It looked fantastic. The biggest question that the movie left me with was--what
did the relic have to do with anything?
| Sequel | ||
| Owes everything to/rips off earlier film | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Bad title |  |
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| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | |
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| Bad dialogue | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Characters forget about threat | |
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| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | |
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| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Toilet stall scene | |
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| Victim locks self in with killer | |
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| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Cat jumps out | |
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| Fake scare | |
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| Laughable scare | ||
| Blood hits camera | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Blood fountain | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | |
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| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | |
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| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | |
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| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| What the hell? | |
Total Skulls: 21
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