Review of Tremors (1990) by Ducknation — 01 Jul 2014

"We decided to leave town just one damn day to late!".

Tremors is such an awesome 90's monster movie that has a great blend of action, horror, and humor, its also without a doubt one of my favorite films of all time. It being a horror is actually pretty funny because I used to watch it all the time growing up but never really saw it as a horror movie as the comedy in it subdues any horror feeling the movie has but watching it nowadays I can totally see the movie as a horror. Ron Underwood made is big screen directorial debut with Tremors but sadly went on to do nothing else that was this good and now he is a TV director working on multiple shows. I see so many people giving it a 1 now that is a complete joke anybody that gives the movie a rating of less than a 7 should honestly stop watching movies and reevaluate on how they view cinema.

The movie follows two hard working handymen Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) finding little work in the small town of Perfection, Nevada, and after finally deciding to leave for the nearest town of Bixby for better work they come across one of the fellow resident's dead on top a electrical tower. After a couple more deaths and the towns only road getting blocked we see the few remaining resident's of Perfection fight to survive against a threat they can't see coming. The chemistry Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward have together was surprisingly good, im not sure if these two had worked together before this but after watching this you would think they did. I would have to say that Michael Gross as Burt Gummer was my favorite character of the whole movie the guy was an absolute blast literally also Reba McEntire who played his wife was pretty awesome.

Overall I give it a 8.0 The 2 sequels may not be as good as the first but at least they are better then the god awful prequel they made.