A night at the museum...
The Story:
Some crates are sent from South America to the Chicago Natural History Museum. Well, the crates arrive, on a ship full of dead people, and the mystery begins. What was in the crates? What's killing everyone? How does it make any sense that stuff arrives by boat in Chicago?
This is a nifty exercise in tension/horror with a low budget. When your top stars are Penelope Ann Miller and Tom Sizemore, you know you are either on a low budget film, an old film from the 90s... or in this case:
Both.
Miller plays the anthropologist who takes all day trying to figure out what is killing people.
Sizemore plays a gruff but loveable homicide detective who knows that something bad out there is still out there, and if people don't listen to him, there will be more dead bodies.
So basically, you try and take Jaws, and bring it to Chicago.
And really, much of the film works well when paying homage to Jaws.
The monster stays hidden, and that makes for great tension and off-screen kills. What is it?
Unlike Jaws, or maybe like Jaws, depending on when you saw it in your lifetime, when the real creature is revealed... meh.
It's like a 4 legged Predator.
Yep.
Streaming now on Netflix for your amusement.
Final Grade: C
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Zero
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