Tremors

Theatrical Release Date: 1990 01 19 (USA)

UPC: 025192021824

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity]

Summary: Tremors is actually two movies in one. On its own terms, it's an enjoyable modern sci-fi horror-thriller, with good pacing and a sense of humor; but it's also a loving tribute to such 1950s low-budget desert-based sci-fi-horror films like Them!, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, and The Monolith Monsters. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are the stars, a pair of small-town handymen living in a small desert community, who stumble upon several difficult-to-explain phenomena, including a couple of people who've died under extremely strange (and, in one instance, very grisly) circumstances. Eventually, they and a handful of their neighbors find the cause: gigantic prehistoric worm-like creatures that streak under the desert the way fish swim through oceans, reaching up and grabbing anything they need for food. Cut off from the outside world, they have to figure out how to get across the desert alive while these creatures -- that are smart as well as fast -- close in on them, stalking them like monster sharks. The film benefits from the presence of special effects that are good enough to pull this all off, keeping the shock value high, and also from a subtly humorous script and performances to match by the entire cast, and director Ron Underwood's breezy pacing of the whole picture. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: [None specified]

Tremors

Format: DVD

Release Date: 04/29/1998

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 95 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Chapter List
1. Main Titles: Stampede, Earl! [4:09]
2. That's Supposed to be a Girl! [2:43]
3. Perfection [1:36]
4. Beneath Perfection [1:16]
5. Less Than Perfection [2:47]
6. High and Dry [2:17]
7. Bad Things from the Garden [2:27]
8. Road Kill [3:28]
9. Some Kind of Mutation [1:51]
10. The Dead of Night [3:58]
11. Who's Best on a Horse? [3:41]
12. Where's the Golden Oldie Coming From? [1:13]
13. They're Under the Ground! [1:40]
14. The Worm and the Wall [1:13]
15. We Really Caught Something Here! [2:33]
16. On the Rocks [4:18]
17. You Guys Know How to Pole Vault? [3:09]
18. Where Do They Come From? [1:24]
19. One Long Smorgasbord [1:56]
20. The Pesky Parasites Invade Perfection [1:40]
21. Get Off the Pogo! [:55]
22. Get Out of Your Pants! [2:49]
23. The Monsters Go to Market [2:37]
24. Uzi 4 U [5:25]
25. We Killed It! [1:28]
26. Bringing Down the House [1:38]
27. Nestor's Wild Ride [2:03]
28. A Hell of a Long Walk [2:05]
29. Going for the Cat [4:10]
30. Armored Transport [1:37]
31. Going Prepared [1:59]
32. Heading for the Mountains [2:17]
33. A Run for the Rocks [3:44]
34. Goin' Fishin'-Like [2:07]
35. The Worm Wises Up [1:17]
36. The Last Bomb [1:53]
37. The Worm Turns [1:56]
38. Working Up to It [2:08]
39. End Titles: ("Why Not Tonight?" -Reba McEntire) [3:58]
0. Chapter List
1. How It All Began... [4:05]
2. Building Perfection [4:32]
3. The Mechanical Effects [2:17]
4. The Cast [3:48]
5. Photography and Editing [1:42]
6. The Creatures [15:06]
7. The Miniatures [6:39]
8. The Cliff [2:15]
9. The Ending [2:44]
10. Creature Featurette [10:26]

Brendon Hanley

Tremors is a refreshing, energetic, genre-bending farce which pays homage to 1950s B-movies the likes of The Blob (1958), Them! (1954), and Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954). Working from a clever script, director Ron Underwood perfectly captures the dim, pulpy tone of the horror-adventures, without ever resorting to patronizing parody. Tremors retains enough of the genre's conventions to make the film work on a genuinely suspenseful level -- he elicits effective B-movie thrills while poking fun at them. A good deal of credit for the wry tone should go to Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, who deliver marvelously whimsical, "straight" performances as the film's bumpkin heroes. The special effects and stunts are impressive: despite their intentional preposterousness, the giant worms are appropriately scary. The film was enough of a cult hit to warrant a direct-to-video sequel in 1995, named Tremors II: Aftershocks. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Conrad Bachmann  Actor 
John Pappas  Actor 
Bibi Besch  Actor 
Ariana Richards  Actor 
Tony Genaro  Actor 
Michael Dan Wagner  Actor 
Charlotte Stewart  Actor 
Sunshine Parker  Actor 
Pam Dixon  Actor 
Richard Marcus  Actor 
John Goodwin  Actor 
Robert Folk  Composer (Music Score) 
Gale Anne Hurd  Executive Producer 
Brent Maddock  Producer 
Brent Maddock  Screenwriter 
Ernest Troost  Composer (Music Score) 
Ron Underwood  Director 
S.S. Wilson  Producer 
S.S. Wilson  Screenwriter 
Kevin Bacon  Actor 
Fred Ward  Actor 
Finn Carter  Actor 
Michael Gross  Actor 
Reba McEntire  Actor 
Bobby Jacoby  Actor 
Victor Wong  Actor 

Country: USA