Trailers &
Clips
Photos
News
Showtimes &
Tickets
Awards &
Nominations

Tremors

:

Overview

Tremors
Critics' Rating:
read review
Avg. User Rating:
56 ratings
Your Rating:
write a review
PG13,1hr 36min
Released:
January 19, 1990
Director:
Distributor:
MCA/Universal Pictures
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
Critics' 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 ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Valentine McKee
Earl Basset
Rhonda LeBeck
Burt Gummer
Similar Movies
Arachnophobia (1990) Army of Darkness (1993) The Blob (1958) Critters (1986) Critters 3 (1991) Jaws (1975)
advertisement