Product: Tremors (1990)
Rating: 4.0
Happiness Is A Warm Elephant Gun...
In the tradition of THEM!, THE DEADLY MANTIS, THE BLACK SCORPION, and other monster bug movies, TREMORS gives us an entertaining 95 minutes worth of nonsense. Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) are handymen in the tiny desert town of Perfection Nevada, where they do all the jobs that no one else wants to do. One day, they finally decide they've had enough and load up the truck for anywhere-but-here-ville. This would be great, except for the gargantuan worm-monsters that have just eaten some roadworkers and destroyed the only exit from Perfection. Val and Earl must stay and help their neighbors to defeat these burrowing beasts. TREMORS is a lot of fun to watch! I especially enjoyed Heather and Burt Gummer (Reba McEntire and Michael Gross) as the couple with the doomsday arsenal in their basement! They are two of the most memorable characters in all of monsterdom! Their elephant gun, tech-9s, and make-shift pipebombs are a wonder to behold! Played fairly straight, these two come across as more human than cartoon, and are actually helpful against the monsters instead of just comic relief. The monster wormys themselves are very well done. Today, they would be CGI critters, but for 1989 they ain't bad at all! Finn Carter is also good as the grad student who first notices the seismic disturbances underground. Add TREMORS to your next monster mixer...