Have I really not talked about The Relic here? Huh. Okay.
1: The Relic (1997)
The Relic has been on the BBC’s free streaming service for years, due to them giving some money to this very American movie, so it’s always there if I’m stuck for something mildly horror-y.
It’s very much mid The X Files in its “sarcastic people with flashlights chasing a briefly-glimpsed pseudoscience monster” and also very early post Jurassic Park in its “Stan Winston Studio provides a great monster which does some action with CGI that had to be used so carefully and sparingly that it still mostly holds up” (behind the scenes article here with the best look you’ll ever get at the monster).
It’s goofy, gory fun. Many heads are chomped.
The pseudoscience “curse” is kicked off by an indigenous tribe but the film blames the spread on a know-it-all anthropologist.
The book it was based on got a sequel around the same time the film came out (and apparently some of the characters reappeared in more thrillers by the authors that don’t have monsters in them) and I would have happily watched more of these.
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