
The Relic(1997)
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.


“The madness inside us all.”
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.

Tim Matheson
Stuart

Meg Tilly
Jennifer

Hume Cronyn
Dr. Carr

John Karlen
Bob Russell

Bill Paxton
Eddie
Amy Stryker
Margo

Claude Earl Jones
Sheriff
Robert Wightman
Howard
Lorinne Vozoff
Mrs. Russell

Peter Jason
Man in Truck
Impulse is a horror, mystery, science fiction, thriller film released in 1984. Directed by Graham Baker, it stars Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn. After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
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