

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
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.