B-horror classic - Tremors (1990)
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Alright, alright, I already hear everyone saying "That's not a B-movie, it has Kevin Bacon for god sake!", but you're wrong. It has some decent acting talent (Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire) and grossed just over $16,000,000 and is about killer worms with worms for tongues that eat your ass through the ground. So, B-movie it is and we can move onto the trailer and discussion of this oddly epic film.
Trying to escape their dead-end life in the desert town of Perfection, Nevada, Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Bassett find themselves sidetracked when corpses mysteriously start piling up around them. When Val and Earl have a run-in with some creepy tentacled creatures that have made lunch out of a road crew, they retreat back to the town to spread the news. Although these monsters are not exactly intellectuals, their mental powers are still mind-boggling. Detecting a human hiding in a car, they dig under the vehicle, causing it to sink into the earth. Val and Earl get help from several townspeople. With the help of Rhonda, Val and Earl kill one of the monsters. But there are three of them left, and they are each about 30 feet long. Walter starts calling the monsters graboids. When the survivors think they have outwitted the graboids by taking refuge atop the roofs of buildings, the graboids merely destroy the buildings' foundations, killing two people. The graboids are quick learners when it comes to stalking their prey, and the humans must continually be on their toes if they are to stay alive while they try to find a way to defeat the graboids.
There were a total of four Tremors movies and only Michael Gross from the original was in all four films. Here are the four films and the key highlights / new graboids from each one.
Tremors (read above, yeesh)
Tremors II: Aftershocks (No Kevin Bacon, but still have Fred Ward and Michael Gross and introduces the next evolutionary stage of graboid - the Shrieker)
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (buh-bye Fred Ward, but Michael Gross stays around for the paycheck - introduces the Ass Blaster [yes really])
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (Set in the 1800's as the prequel to the original Tremors when the town was named Rejection - introduces the small leap-from-the ground killer graboids that are unnamed)
Tremors II - Shrieker
Tremors 3 - Ass Blaster
"Old West" Michael Gross
