Tremors

1990

Tremors

Critics Consensus

An affectionate throwback to 1950s creature features, Tremors reinvigorates its genre tropes with a finely balanced combination of horror and humor.

85%

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Total Count: 33

75%

Audience Score

User Ratings: 239,916
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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
  • Rating:
    PG-13 (adult situations/language, violence)
  • Genre:
    Comedy, Horror
  • Directed By:
    Ron Underwood
  • Written By:
    S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock
  • In Theaters:
     wide
  • On Disc/Streaming:
  • Runtime:
  • Studio:
    MCA/Universal Pictures

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Cast

Kevin Bacon
as Valentine McKee
Fred Ward
as Earl Basset
Rhonda Le Beck
Finn Carter
as Rhonda LeBeck
Michael Gross
as Burt Gummer
Reba McEntire
as Heather Gummer
Bobby Jacoby
as Melvin Plugg
Charlotte Stewart
as Nancy
Tony Genaro
as Miguel
Ariana Richards
as Mindy
Richard Marcus
as Nestor
Victor Wong
as Walter Chang
Sunshine Parker
as Edgar
Michael Dan Wagner
as Old Fred
Conrad Bachmann
as Jim
Bibi Besch
as Megan
John Goodwin
as Howard
John Pappas
as Carmine
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Audience Reviews for Tremors

  • Jun 03, 2016
    Tremors combines crazy stupid fun with genuine white-knuckling tension.
    Gimly M Super Reviewer
  • Jun 03, 2016
    Tremors is not a good movie, even if it is cheesy fun.
    Jeff L Super Reviewer
  • Jul 21, 2014
    I like science fiction, but this movie is just too simplistic for me.
    Red L Super Reviewer
  • Jul 20, 2013
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    Directors C Super Reviewer
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