Tremors (1990)
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88% of critics liked it
(25 reviews) -
63% of users liked it
(219,813 ratings)
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… More 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
- Directed By
- Ron Underwood
- Genres
- Horror, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 19, 1990 Wide
- Studio
- MCA/Universal Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Scott Weinberg, FEARnet
I think there should be a lot more movies like Tremors out there, and no I don't mean more sequels.
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Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
Tastes so bad going down but feels so good going in...
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James Rocchi, Common Sense Media
Modest monster flick is great fun for teens.
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Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is
a fun b-movie flicka
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Jon Niccum, Lawrence Journal-World
A flawless B-movie about giant, underground worm creatures
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Cast
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Kevin Bacon
as Valentine McKee
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Fred Ward
as Earl Basset
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Finn Carter
as Rhonda LeBeck
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Michael Gross
as Burt Gummer
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Reba McEntire
as Heather Gummer
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Bobby Jacoby
as Melvin Plug
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Victor Wong
as Walter Chang
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Conrad Bachmann
as Jim The Doctor
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Bibi Besch
as Megan The Doctor's Wife
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Tony Genaro
as Miguel
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John Goodwin
as Howard Roadworker
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Richard Marcus
as Nestor
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John Pappas
as Carmine Roadworker
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Sunshine Parker
as Edgar
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Ariana Richards
as Mindy
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Charlotte Stewart
as Nancy
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Michael Dan Wagner
as Old Fred
- Pam Dixon Mickelson



