Jul 30 2009
TREMORS
Damn you Wal-Mart!
PLOT
Valentine and Earl are two handymen working in Perfection, Nevada who just want to get out. On their way out of town they find a dead man and then find even more dead bodies. When they try to leave again, a landslide closes off the only exit out. They then discover the dead body of what looks like an oversize snake on their car. Finally they discover the Tremors, though they refer to them as Graboids. Rhonda, a grad student working on unusual findings in the area discovers that there are three more of the tremors in the desert and the whole town of a dozen people (including the dad from Family Ties and Reba MyIntyre) have to band together to battle the creatures.
TRIVIA
Supposedly there is yet another sequel to the movie in the works. This one will be entitled Tremors: The Thunder Down Under.
This is one of the only horror movies to launch its own spin-off television series, known as Tremors: The Series (very original fellas).
THOUGHTS
You’ll probably notice that I don’t do a lot of creature type movies here on the Horror Queen, but Wal-Mart got me again. I went in just planning to buy some groceries and ended up leaving with the Tremors 4-pack, but for only $13, I won’t complain too much. It’s been a long (long) time since I’ve seen the first two movies and I’ve never seen the last two so it’s been an interesting experience. Tremors was actually a fairly good movie and not nearly as cheesy as I remembered. I liked it enough that I plan on picking up another set and stocking it away for Christmas since my dad loves these kind of movies.
