La reliquia

Título original: Das Relikt

1997
B
1h 50min

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Un detective de homicidios y un antropólogo intentan destruir a un dios sudamericano parecido a un lagarto, que masacra y devora personas en un museo de Chicago.Un detective de homicidios y un antropólogo intentan destruir a un dios sudamericano parecido a un lagarto, que masacra y devora personas en un museo de Chicago.Un detective de homicidios y un antropólogo intentan destruir a un dios sudamericano parecido a un lagarto, que masacra y devora personas en un museo de Chicago.

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Premios
- 4 nominaciones en total

Trivia
Because the novel portrayed the museum's administration in an unflattering light, they turned the film's producers down. Paramount Pictures offered the museum a seven-figure sum of money to film there, but the administration was worried that the monster movie would scare kids away from the museum. The producers were faced with a problem as only museums in Chicago and Washington, D.C., resembled the one in New York. The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago loved the premise and allowed them to shoot there.

Errores
In the book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the monster has been in the museum's subbasement for around seven years, making the lair filled with either partially or fully decomposed skeletons completely plausible. However, in the movie they change the duration to only six weeks. The lair they find in the movie with tons of skeletons doesn't connect with the time it took for them to become that decomposed.

Citas
[Lt. D'Agosta joins the talkative Dr. Zwiezic at the morgue for the autopsy of Frederick Ford]
Dr. Zwiezic: Lieutenant D'Agosta, it's lovely to see you under such alarming circumstances. 7 decapitations in one week. Don't you just hate someone who only takes head and never gives it?
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: You're bad, Matilda. Real bad.
Dr. Zwiezic: Autopsy attended by Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Chicago homicide. I heard your ex got custody of the dog.
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: Is it on the goddamn internet?
Dr. Zwiezic: You shouldn't have been late on your ALPO payments.
[D'Agosta chuckles]
Dr. Zwiezic: We have an African-American male, probably age 55 - 60. Height 5'4" - with his head maybe 6'1". Weight 160, give or take, if you know what I mean. There are an undetermined number of lacerations proceeding from the left anterior pectoral region downwards through the sternum, terminating at the right anterior abdominal region. Pectoralis minor and pectoralis major are separated to a great degree, and there is spontaneous dehiscence. The sternal process has been split and the ribcage exposed. Now for the head. The head is decapitated between the axial process and the atlas. The entire occipital portion of the calvarium and half the parietal process has been crushed, or rather seemingly punched through and removed, leaving a hole perhaps 5 inches in diameter. The skull is empty. The entire brain appears to have fallen out or been extracted through this hole.
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: Any idea about a weapon?
Dr. Zwiezic: [Dr. Zwiezic replies dramatically] Something big.
[Lt. D'Agosta chuckles]
Dr. Zwiezic: The brain is severely traumatized and appears to have been severed at the medulla oblongata. The pons varolii is intact but separate. The cerebrum has been completely separated from the mesencephalon, and... Hey! Hey, wait a minute. This brain is light, even for a man. Something's missing, Lieutenant. Where's the rest of it?
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: We got everything we found.
Dr. Zwiezic: There is no thalamic region. There is no pituitary gland.
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: What are you talking about?
Dr. Zwiezic: The thalamus and hypothalamus regulate body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat. It regulates hundreds of hormones into the bloodstream. Don't you agree, Fred?
Coroner's Assistant: Yes.
Dr. Zwiezic: He never shuts up.
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: [Lt. D'Agosta smirks] Hmm.

Conexiones
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Fierce Creatures/Metro/In Love and War/Prefontaine/The Relic (1997)

Bandas sonoras
Sunrise
String Qartet in B Flat Major
Written by Joseph Haydn (as F.J. Haydn)
Performed by Kodaly Quartet
Courtesy of Naxos of America, by arrangement with Source/Q

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6/10

new breed

The monster movie bites back in this suspenseful thriller. All the elements are there fore the build up. Artefacts are brought from South America which unbeknown are carrying ancient religious powers. Its a cliché from other films including th e start of 'Exorcist' but here its done beautifully.

With the archaeological find now in Chicago and no one getting suspicious by the dead bodies that came with it- they can't be too bright otherwise they would dump the find in the harbour and that would be the end of the film.

Politics overrules those that start to worry that they may be dealing with something more that what appears to be on the surface. And then all hell does break loose.

Relic is a good introducing to suspenseful films for those that don't normally see them.