15 Horror Movies You Probably Didn't Know Were Based On Books

15. The Relic

Let's kick off the list with a mostly forgotten creature feature from the era of grunge and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Roughly based off the first novel in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Special Agent Pendergast series, The Relic follows a homicide detective and an anthropologist as they try to put a stop to a monstrous creature rampaging its way throughout a Chicago museum.

Since the release of the first Pendergast book in 1995, Preston and Child have kept themselves quite busy. With around nineteen entries, a spin-off, and a deep lore, the series is far more interesting and expansive than the movie would lead you to assume. In fact, Pendergast isn't even in the movie. While he played merely a supporting role in the first two novels, he was still very much a part of the narrative.

As far as the movie itself goes, history has ignored it for a reason. Though it does have a pretty darn cool creature design. At least that's something.