Tremors [Blu-ray]

Director: Ron Underwood Ron Underwood

Overview

An isolated desert town is menaced from underneath by gigantic mutant worms in this horror-comedy, which captures the fun spirit of 1950s drive-in monster movies, only with improved production values. As the worms begin killing off the residents one by one, two handymen become the town's only hope for survival.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/06/2021
UPC:	0760137486381
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Arrow Video
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	12,161

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Bacon	Valentine McKee
Fred Ward	Earl Bassett
Finn Carter	Rhonda LeBeck
Reba McEntire	Heather Gummer
Victor Wong	Walter Chang
Robert Jayne	Melvin Plug
Ariana Richards	Mindy Sterngood
Charlotte Considine	Nancy Sterngood
Tony Genaro	Miguel
Richard Marcus	Nestor
Bibi Besch	Megan - The Doctor's Wife
Conrad Bachman	Jim - The Doctor
Sunshine Parker	Edgar
Michael Dan Wagner	Old Fred
John Goodwin	Howard - Roadworker
Frank Welker	Graboids
Tom Woodruff Jr.	Graboids
Ernest Troost	Conductor,Composer
Rhonda Le Beck	Actor
Robert Folk	Composer

Technical Credits

S.S. Wilson

Brent Maddock

Ron Underwood	Director
S.S. Wilson	Screenwriter,Producer
Brent Maddock	Screenwriter,Producer
Gale Anne Hurd	Executive Producer
Pam Dixon	Casting

Editorial Reviews

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.