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A string of gruesome murders plagues the Chicago Museum of Natural History in the days leading up to a massive gala to open a new exhibit. The strange mutilations of the bodies suggests the killer may not even be human. But with so much at stake, the museum officials decide to push through the opening despite the dangers.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: D'Agosta jokes that the storage area would be a bad place to light a match.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Margo calls Greg a gerbil.

* [[Horror Hunger]]: For human hypothalamus.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Margo is especially [[Fan Service|fanservicey]] when she's changing into her dress for the gala.

* [[It Can Think]]: Kothoga is able to recognize traps, hide bodies, and do what it can to stay out of sight from humans, [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that it {{spoiler|used to be human itself}}.

* [[Jerkass]]: Dr. Lee throws his hat in against Margo for a grant he doesn't even need (and she will have to close down without) and then to up his odds of getting said grant, he has her "accidentally" locked into the labs during the party so he can brown nose the benefactors in peace.

* [[National Geographic Nudity]]: In the opening, Dr. Whitney is in the company of South American natives who wear little to no clothes.

* [[Lockdown]]: The damaged security system effectively locks everyone in the museum with the monster.

* [[Plot Hole]]: The movie places the first murder and the break-in for the crates on the same night. If the Kothoga had gotten to the crates, why did it need to kill?

* [[Tragic Monster]]: Kothoga, once its full origin is revealed.

* [[Viewers are Morons]]: There are quite a few glaring examples when compared to the source material. Any difficult names are dumbed down (Whittlesey becomes Whitney, Kawakita becomes Lee), the monster Mbwun and the tribe that controlled it, The Kothoga, are combined into one term.