Title The Relic Overview A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Tagline The Next Evolution In Terror. Genres Horror, Mystery, Thriller Keywords chicago, based on novel, monster, museum, pile of dead bodies, god, dead body, anthropologist, indian tribe, amazon jungle Production Companies Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Toho-Towa, Mutual Film Company, Pacific Western, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Marubeni, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft TMG , British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Production Countries Germany, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 110 Release Year 1997
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 34 million USD