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Tremors

This movie caught me by surprise: I worked in a video store, and one day we got a preview tape of this movie, prior to its video release. I hadn't heard much about it, so I watched it, and was quite surprised at how enjoyable it was. Since then, I have seen the movie about ten more times (at least), and still get a kick out of it. Tremors is basically a landlocked variation on 'Jaws' and those 1950s giant bug movies: the isolated town of Perfection, Nevada (population 16), finds itself under siege by four monstrous, subterranean worm like creatures, that hunt by sensing vibrations in the ground. The plot revolves around the townspeople trying to outwit and escape the creatures (dubbed 'Graboids'), which are tearing the town out from under them. What really makes the movie work is the characters: all of them come across as real people trapped in an insane situation, and all have a lot of charisma, even though the film doesn't have tons of character development. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are a hoot as a pair of low-rent handymen who become reluctant heroes. The byplay between the two is a lot of fun. Usually movies like this revolve around stupid people doing stupid things, just to raise the body count. Tremors is different: the characters react believably, and do smart things to try and escape and/or kill the Graboids. The creatures too are also fairly smart, and are not just mindless eating machines with no brains. Given its premise, Tremors is not a gory or violent film (although it has a couple of minor gross bits), and has a very good sense of humor. The film-makers are aware of their far-fetched premise (a couple of key questions go unanswered), but they treat it with respect and a certain amount of affection.

Don't you just love it when actors, directors, and producers take their work seriously but not themselves? I do, and that's what happens in Tremors, a well-acted, well-directed, well-produced gem that makes us glad that those involved allowed it to become a cold Coors six-pack of country boy capers. Much of the delight in watching Tremors derives from the rib poking guy fun that Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward have when working their scenes. And the fun starts early. In the second scene of the film, our erstwhile out-of-pocket handymen, Val (Bacon) and Earl (Ward), are constructing a barbed wire cattle fence. Kevin Bacon, an obvious non handyman, takes 10 strokes to hammer a nail into the fencepost. This apparently amuses Fred Ward, a true life handyman, who watches Kevin nearly botch the job. As Kevin walks away, Fred does an impromptu eye-ball inspection of the fencepost and then turns to give Kevin an "I can't believe it" look that surely made for some after-scene razzing over beers. If you're a late comer to Tremors, break out a couple of cold ones and watch it for more of the acting which isn't acting that makes this film so damned good and so much more than monster eats man. Thanks Kevin! Thanks Fred! Thanks Ron!

This is a scary movie with good suspense-horror and excellent special-effects as huge worm-like creatures go after humans in the desert. It kind of sounds like one of those hokey 1950s sci-fi films but it isn't. This can scare you at times. The only negative, at least for me, was an excessive abuse of the Lord's name in vain. There is a ton of profanity in here and some dumb dialog. You have to put with that - or use a profanity filter - but, for sheer suspense for an hour-and-a-half, this has it in spades. The story is involving. Once you get hooked, you can't put this film down. Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McIntyre fight off the gruesome underground invaders. One thing for sure: you will not be bored.

I cannot believe how entertained I was by Tremors. As a comedy-horror it succeeds on all levels, that is in my opinion, and it is for me one of the sharpest and funniest monster movies in years. It goes at a tremendously fast pace, it is sharply written being funny and smart and the giant worms are fantastically designed. Add some skillful cinematography, lovely scenery, superb sound effects and an atmospheric score to the mix too, as well as some clever direction and some terrific acting. Fred Ward is charismatic and cool as Earl, and Kevin Bacon is really likable in his role. Rhonda is not the vapid female lead like I feared, she is intelligent and tough, and that was refreshing as was Finn Carter playing her. Out of the number of the entertaining cameos, Michael Gross comes off best as Burt, he was hilarious. Overall, enormous fun and atmospheric, and on a side note the only follow up movie of this movie I've seen so far Tremors 2 I found surprisingly entertaining for a straight-to-video sequel. 10/10 for Tremors. Bethany Cox

Nevada desert ,around village named Perfection are happening mysterious deeds.There live a small misfit group(Michael Gross,McEntire,Tony Genaro,Charlotte Stewart,Victor Wong,among others).A pair handyman(Kevin Bacon ,Fred Ward)find a university graduate(Finn Carter) and appear spontaneously a fearsome wormlike burrow surrounding of them.The Perfection inhabitants are besieged by the giant killers predators with several tongues.Then they battle against the West's more creepy beasts that savagely stalking its prey ,the human bunch and developing a bloodthirsty hunger for men eating.The trio protagonist comes out through desolate plateu where are roaming while must to save them. This is an enjoyable and amusing juvenile romp,campy fun,quite entertaining and slickly shot.Bemusing old-fashioned, fantasy-adventure from updating adaptation of 50s and 60s monster movies.The film relies heavily about sympathetic relationship both protagonists: Bacon and Ward.An ambitious production,interesting as movie and hokey FX .Graboids deliver the goods with hair-rising suspense and grisly chills when the weird creatures emerge from underground.It's remarkable for special effects -made by Animatronics,no computer generator like the sequels- recreating the carnivorous and ferocious monsters .It's followed by inferior movies aimed to video rental market: ¨Aftershock¨(S.S.Wilson)again with Fred Ward; ¨III Back to Perfection¨with Charlotte Stewart and Ariana Richards and TV series with Gladys Jimenez,Victor Browne,Marcia Strassman and as always Michael Gross.The essential particularities from the sequels are : A remote and desert location named Perfection ,a solitary small village with a small group pitting horrible Graboids and of course the usual presence of Michael Gross as Burt Gummer,besides all are produced by Brent Maddock,Ron Underwood and S.S Wilson.The motion picture is recommended for horror-action enthusiastic that will find pretty spectacular scenes and some humor and their appetite for gruesome shots will be satisfied.Rating : Better than average and entertaining.

What we have in this film is the atmosphere of some of the old 50's B movie classics with an 80's touch added,and very well done at that. We have unique and rather intimidating monsters,as well as a very unique cast of characters to battle them.While Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward may be listed as the leads,I think that Michael Gross practically steals the entire show.While it isn't flawless,it certainly is entertaining enough.I would recommend it to any fan of 1950's B horror films.It is well worth the rental and would be a good addition to anyone's library.