Those who have seen the film know what I'm talking about, but if you haven't, treat yourself by waiting to the end of the book. The Relic begins in the South American jungle with Doctor Julian Whittlesey embarking on an ill-fated mission whose tragedy does not fully unfold until the last act. Still, the elements removed from the film denied audiences a story that could have been far more interesting and complex than what we ended up viewing. The film never reached the success it intended, but I do give credit to Peter Hyam's producing an entertaining film nonetheless. While the movie version kept the basic premise of the book intact, wherein a famous metropolitan museum is menaced by a prehistoric monster, I was dismayed to see the best elements of the book gutted. Thus with more than ten days remaining in my lockdown vacation, I decided to use my Audible credits and listen to the audiobook version of The Relic, written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. To my surprise, I came away from this bit of web surfing not only appraised on the doings of Ms Miller, who apparently had quite an interesting career but discovering The Relic was based on a book. I was curious to learn whatever became of Penelope Anne Miller, an actress who seemed to be a staple of '90s cinema but faded away with the new century. Now I'm one of those people who likes to look in Wikipedia to see the history of a film after viewing and did just that with The Relic. While Dreamscape is not technically a monster movie, it does have a snake man that meets the criteria and a pre-Inner Space Dennis Quaid. Then the Blob (the 1988 version with Kevin Dillon.

Then I followed it up with the cult-classic Tremors, which showed us Steven Keaton of Family Ties could be a badass survivalist. I started with Guillermo del Toro's Mimic. During the Christmas break, I decided to treat myself to a monster movie marathon.

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