Tremors (film)

Tremors is a American science fiction- horror- comedy, and film from 1990. The film was directed by Ron Underwood. It starred Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter,Michael Gross and Reba McEntire. The film was followed by three additional films and a TV series.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The film is set in the fictional town of Perfection, Nevada. Live here the handymen Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Bassett. Perfection is an old mining town with only 14 inhabitants. Other inhabitants are the survivalist Burt Gummer and his wife Heather, and Walter Chang, the owner of a local shop. A new arrival is Rhonda LeBeck, a graduate student seismological research. Earl has a crush on her.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Receipt
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 external links

Val and Earl decide to seek better work in Bixby, the nearest "real" town. On their way, however, they find a dead body: Edgar Davis, the local alcoholic. He's climbed a pole in and apparently died from dehydration. The surprised Val and Earl arrive to Jim, the doctor of the town. In their second attempt to leave the city they come along the House of the shepherd "Old Fred". Fred and his flock to their shock turn out to have been killed. Walk around, no rushing them back to Perfection. They also warn two road workers.Soon after Val and Earl gone, something comes out of the ground and kill the two road workers. It also caused a landslide, which the only blocks away from Perfection.

Val and Earl discover that the phone line is dead and want to go get the police in Bixby. At the cracked open way they find the dead bodies of the road workers, and a strange snake like creature the size of a python. They take the hose to the village. The "snakes" attack and kill Jim and his wife.

The next day try Val and Earl to Bixby to travel, this time on horseback. Along the way they discover the buried car by Jim and his wife. Suddenly pops up out of the ground a colossal monster: a snake like beast with three small snakes as tongues. This monster gets later the name "Graboid". The two men run for their lives and dives under a concrete aqueduct. The Graboid is chasing them underground and bumps into the concrete wall and survives this hit not. The joy of the two men is but short lived when Rhonda pops up and they discover that there are still three of these Graboid. One of the three Graboid turns up making it to seek protection on trio is forced a few rocks.Eventually they a sprint to Rhonda's car, with which they drive back to Perfection.

In the village no one believes them, until a Graboid pops up out of the ground and kills Walter. The remaining inhabitants flee to the roofs of their houses. Meanwhile a Graboid also pops up on at the House of the Gummers. Burt and his wife use the complete arsenal of weapons from their basement and manage to kill the beast.

When it is discovered that the Graboid working to dig away the Foundation are among the buildings comes Earl with the plan to flee the city with a bulldozer. While the villagers divert the Graboid with sounds, the vehicle picks Fall on. with the bulldozer they hope to reach the mountains, where the Graboid can not come. Along the way they pick up also Burt and Heather, which take a few homemade bombs to be sure.

The Graboid see through the plan and dig a trap on the route of the bulldozer. As a result, everyone is forced to flee back to the rocks. There they can remain here long, they try to kill the two remaining Graboid. Earl manages one of Burt's a bomb on the Graboid to eat, but not in the second Graboid kicks here. Ultimately seizes the last bomb and flight direction Fall a precipice, where he acts as if he wants to throw the bomb to the Graboid. Just before the Graboid with him he jumps aside, however, and the beast in the abyss. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tremors currently has a "fresh" rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film also a 7.0 on the Internet Movie Database. ==References to other films<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="13" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">4 nominations:
 * 1991, Saturn Awards

<p lang="en" len="12" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(15,15,95);">1 nomination:
 * Best Science Fiction film
 * Best Special Effects
 * Best Supporting Actress (Finn Carter)
 * Best Supporting Actress (Reba McEntire)
 * 1991, Young Artist Award

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Best young actress in a supporting role (Ariana Richards).
 * Michael Gross began exactly one day after filming the last episode of Family Ties.
 * The Graboid seem to be based on the worms in Dune.