The Relic

I want to...

You remember the movie The Relic? You've seen that?

Yeah, we reviewed

that.

Danny gave me a job out of pity, told me it was just, "U-until you figure out your next chapter." Well, that was five years ago.

[crickets chirping] Tuesday night, late March, I remember it clear because I, I'd just seen a midnight double feature of The Relic and Escape From New York the night before, and my head was still swimming with monsters and synth scores.

It was nine forty-five when I heard the sound, loud, hollow, and wrong, [thudding] coming from the back bays, a thud like something heavy falling.

I got up slow, knees groaning under my weight, and grabbed the flashlight from under the counter.

so the story eddie william hertz character is working on some experiments concerning sensory deprivation seems like he believes unusual mental states might reveal something fundamental about human existence it's all very intellectual indeed but this ambition is putting a strain on his marriage to emily We then cut to him in Mexico participating in this indigenous ceremony where he's basically given what feels like ayahuasca mixed with some of his blood.

It feels like the opening scene of The Relic comes back altered.

that he immediately starts experiencing disturbing visions and for some reason decides to bring a sample of that shit home.

To study it.

Let's see.

1921. james whitmore who appeared in them and the relic 1914 michael michael goodlife appeared in peeping tom to the devil a daughter and the gorgon and finally in 1909 everett sloan appeared in tv series twilight zone alfred hitchcock presents thriller lights out and inner sanctum

happy

birthday geez

Are, are you a big Penelope Ann Miller fan?

Yeah, I, I mean, I love The Relic.

I, I'll go to bat for The Relic-

Oh, 100%

... all day.

Kindergarten cop.

She's in The Relic.

She's in The Shadow.

You're naming things I don't know now, brother.

Kindergarten cop, I love.

You got

to see The Relic.

It all takes place in Chicago at the museum, the Field Museum, and there are more decapitations in that movie than any movie with decapitations.

The Nutty Professor was still in cinema.

Romeo + Juliet, Sleepers, The English Patient, The Relic, Mars Attack, 101 Dalmatians, Matilda Um, and funnily enough, Scream was still in theaters at that time because it had done so well it stayed all the way until March.

So never really stood a chance, did it?

I mean, what a grab bag of movies.