Product: Tremors (1990)
Rating: 4.0
Flesh-Eating Worms in Nevada.
TREMORS, though not a great movie, has all the elements of a great movie. It's got a good cast (Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire), decent plot (small desert town attacked by flesh-eating worms), lots of action and suspense, very realistic special effects, and plenty of humor mixed in. The movie makes no qualms that its a rehash of the old sci-fi flicks of the 1950's and 1960's that starred giant insects. However, TREMORS makes it all seem so new. The only drawback is that the movie never explains where the "graboids" came from (perhaps to be discussed in a sequel). Whereas JAWS is to MOBY DICK, TREMORS is to comic books.