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Relic, The (1997)
PREVIOUSLY-VIEWED / FORMER RENTAL
VHS / NTSC
RARE JAPANESE IMPORT
LABEL: TOWA VIDEO
YEAR: 1997
AKA: N/A
DIRECTOR: Peter Hyams (Timecop, Sudden Death, The Star Chamber, Outland, Peeper)
CAST: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohmer, Chi Muoi Lo, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser, Audra Lindley, Constance Towers, Francis X. McCarthy
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
RATED R / SP MODE / NTSC / COLOR / 109m
A mythological creature stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser. PENELOPE ANN MILLER stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts from a colleague performing fieldwork in Brazil. Among the contents are leaves containing a rare fungus that, unbeknownst to Green or anyone else, attracts the palate of a rapidly mutating, lizard-like monster called Kothoga that has stowed away on a Brazilian freighter and has found a subterranean route into the museum from Lake Michigan. Before long, several museum employees have become decapitated snack food for the beast, which prefers to dine on human hypothalamuses and pituitary glands. Despite dire warnings from the museum staff, a gruff coroner (AUDRA LINDLEY) and the investigating detective, Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (TOM SIZEMORE), the Windy City's oblivious mayor orders a black-tie museum fundraiser to proceed. During the event, the building's high-tech security system locks Green, D'Agosta, the mayor, and many jet-setting party guests in with the hungry animal, forcing everyone to attempt an escape through an underground waterway with which Kothoga is all too familiar. This Z-Grade horror gem was a surprise to me when I first saw it in theaters and it still entertains today, especially the violent and gory attacks by the monster. This rare Japanese VHS release comes in it's original TOWA green VHS case, which compliments the artwork quite nicely.
VHS FEATURES:
- English Language w/ Japanese Subtitles
- OOP ON R1 DVD
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