Tremors DVD

Advantages: Val and Earl, 80's genius, excellent combination of horror and comedy!
Disadvantages: May not be flashy in the effects department for some!

TREMORS (1990) Welcome to the glorious eighties people! Not only a time of twisted sister haircuts (see the Lost Boys for more) and hideous fashion sense, this is also the decade that brought fourth with it the mighty grail-like virtue of VHS allowing for straight to video garbage dressed up like a film to haunt every shelf of the local video store, preying on many an unsuspecting victim. High concept ridiculousness, often without the budget for ...
...made this way?" Tremors is one of these rarefied diamonds. Hell, it even got a cinema release… Perfection, Nevada - a small town of not many in the middle of nowhere. Home to Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward), two handymen (not hired hands) who have come to resent their mundane existence in this place and, after a hose-pipe to a sceptic tank springs a shit-spewing leak all over them, they decide enough is enough, pack their truck and head off ... Read review

Advantages: Fun, action-packed, inventive, good cast, Fred Ward is superb, Kevin Bacon is also great
Disadvantages: Poor DVD extras, Finn Carter is adequate but no more.

...it is that's causing the tremors they're all feeling? Will Val ever realise his true feelings for Rhonda and if so, will it be before one or other of them is eaten? Will Earl ever stop making jokes at the expense of his partner in crime? Will they be able to stop the underground terror or will Val and co. be ingested before you can say "help me Rhonda"? All of these questions, and more, can be answered by watching this great little film. I hadn't ...
...a near classic. Tremors is so enjoyable largely due to the performances of Bacon, Michael Gross & Reba McEntire (the Sheriff and his colleague / wife), and particularly Fred Ward, who is brilliant and extremely funny. Combine this with a tongue-in-cheek humour that works far better than the standard disaster movie formula would have, an inventive script, and some extremely effective special effects (especially as none of it was CGI), and you have ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful. In my top ten movies of all time.
Disadvantages: Er, nothing special for the soundtrack.

...dozens of different quotes from Tremors and nearly as many fan pages but quote which happens to be my topmost favourite was missing. This tells me two things. Tremors really is a classic movie. I think the correct term is “Sleeper”. That’s the name given to those movies which are not amazing Box Office successes but one’s that have an enduring power which lures people back to them again and again. It’s the Sleeper ...
...find more tribute sites for Tremors than, say, “The Mummy.” In fact, Tremors III is on the way. Huzzah! It also tells me that Tremors is the sort of quality film that every minute of every scene could be entered into a quote database or used as a trailer. Wonderful. Here’s a very quick synopsis of the plot. The citizens of the small, isolated desert town of Perfection are being killed off one by one. In quick time and through ... Read review

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Tremors is a sci-fi horror movie from little known director Ron Underwood which pays homage to the monster movies from the 1950s and features Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward in the main roles. Given this information you'd be forgiven for thinking it was going to be a piece of low budget trash, but trust me you would be wrong. Tremors is a very clever movie, expertly treading the fine line between being an out and out send-up of the B movies it imitates ...
...gore. It doesn't need it. Tremors may be based upon a very simple idea, with a plot that is pretty much non-existent ie. monsters attack a town...town defends itself, but its exectution is almost perfect. There are literally scores of pitfalls that awaited the makers of this movie and Underwood has skillfully managed to sidestep them all. It avoids lampooning its predecessors whilst at the same time adding some much needed and well placed humour ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, good characters, B movie fun, high cheese factor.
Disadvantages: Gets weaker towards end.

...* The Film * Tremors is a horror comedy, but the emphasis is on the comedy rather than the horror aspect. From the start, the pace is always modest, but you never feel that the action is ever too slow or too fast which gives the director a chance to add to the characters or the plot and you get the chance to giggle to yourself as the fun unfolds on the screen. The cast do their jobs well, but Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon shine as Val and Earl. Their ...
...Overall * I've seen Tremors a number of times now and I always enjoy it every time I watch it. Admittedly, it's long lost it's horror aspect for me, but that still doesn't mean that it's no longer entertaining. Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon have a good partnership here which is always worth watching, and the supporting cast have some good, funny characters. To those mentioned above, you can also add Michael Gross' Burt Gummer, the gun waving survivalist. ... Read review

Advantages: entertaining and mildly comic
Disadvantages: won't scare you nor make you laugh madly

...I have never seen the original tremors, but watched Tremors 2, Aftershocks, on telly a few weeks back. I have to say that I made the mistake of thinking it was going to be a horror film. Mind you, considering I like comedy a lot better than formulaic horror, perhaps that was lady luck calling. Tremors 2 (I guess like the original) features graboids, large underground worms that eat people on the ground. They move oddly rapidly and are pretty tough customers. Yet this film isn't really about scaring you, it's more about making you laugh. I think. Because that's the odd thing: up until the last I didn't know if this was meant to be a horror comedy or not. Sure, it had funny points, but it was never out-and-out hilarity. Horror comedy is such an odd combination (think of the terrible Beetlejuice) that it is hard to pull it off. I think... Read review

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Advantages: Funny, scary, great FX, great cast.
Disadvantages: None, at all, and I'm not joking!!

...The original Tremors film was cool, funny and scary, and Tremors 2: Aftershocks, carries on the trend. T2A is just as funny, much scarier, and benefits greatly from a better budget. The graboids are back, in a way, as aer the main charachters, except Kevin Bacon. T2A takes place a few years after Tremors, and this time is set in Mexico, where the graboids have re- appeared, feasting on oil- workers. Earl Basset, failed ostrich- farmer (!!) is recruited to hunt them down again, aided by new sidekick, taxi- dirver Grady Hoover. They are joined in Mexey by beautful geologist Kate White Reilly, who is just as good to look at as the CGI graboids. Milatary muscle is provided by gun nut Burt Gummer, the guy from the first film, with the arsenal in his basement. With no sign of WW3, and with his wife having left him (probably due to film... Read review

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Advantages: Good cast, good script, funnier than original, still manages to scare, has an added twist.
Disadvantages: few

...Anyone who has seen the film "Tremors" will love this sequel. The story begins in Mexico where locals are being terrorized by the underground creatures known as "graboids". In steps Fred Ward's character "Earl" to sort them out, when he is called on by the government following his fame in exterminating them in the original movie. At first he declines the offer, but takes it up when he realises that there is a substantial reward for every creature he kills, this is welcome news to him since he lost all the money he made by selling his story and making adverts through poor investments. Kevin Bacon does not appear in the sequel, but his replacement is just as good if not better, and the duo head to Mexico in search of graboids. Soon they realise that the job is too much for them alone and that they will need help. They then enlist... Read review

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