Product: Tremors (1990)
Rating: 5.0
Brain-candy first class
This is what you get when a cast, crew, director, and screenwriters believe in their project but don't take themselves to levels of pretension. This is good clean fun: a monster movie that doesn't require buckets of blood and an overdose of c.g.i. effects. The setting is a brilliant daytime desert instead of a fog-enshrouded gloomy night in a Victorian house whose lights suddenly fail to work. (The foggy, gloomy night in other horror movies usually has to hide a weak script and shoddy directing.)The plot of TREMORS is simple and classic. Something, which is for the most part invisible, is killing off the population of a teeny hamlet one-by-one. Who will save the day? The heroes are the most unlikely of men who rise to the occasion, of course. Will two young people fall in love during the course of the adventure? Of course. Where do the monsters come from? Who knows? It doesn't matter. They're just here and have to be dealt with. Simple, classic.Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Reba McEntie, and Michael Gross all turn in unbelieveably wonderful performances, and Ron Underwood's direction is a perfect combination of light-hearted, quick pacing and heavy-handed suspense, which is okay in a movie about giant worms sucking people underground for their snacks. This movie is great fun and has its heart in the right place.