A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Practical Effects
Stan Winston's creature is disgustingly tactile—CGI wishes it could.
Production
Chicago's Field Museum never looked this ominously gorgeous.
Acting
Tom Sizemore somehow makes 'detective in a monster movie' feel lived-in.
Director
Peter Hyams
Penelope Ann Miller
Dr. Margo Green
Tom Sizemore
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta
Linda Hunt
Dr. Ann Cuthbert
James Whitmore
Dr. Albert Frock
Clayton Rohner
Det. Hollingsworth
Chi Muoi Lo
Dr. Greg Lee
Robert Lesser
Mayor Robert Owen
Diane Robin
The Mayor's Wife
Lewis van Bergen
John Whitney
Constance Towers
Mrs. Harriet Blaisedale
Francis X. McCarthy
Mr. George Blaisedale
Audra Lindley
Dr. Matilda Zwiezic
John Kapelos
McNally
Tico Wells
Bailey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film was shot in Chicago's actual Field Museum and Natural History Museum, with the crew filming overnight when tourists weren't screaming for different reasons.
Based on Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's bestseller, this bombed in theaters but became a VHS rental legend—the perfect example of 90s 'discovery' cinema before streaming algorithms existed.
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