Synopsis
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
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Cast
- Kevin BaconValentine McKee
- Fred WardEarl Bassett
- Finn CarterRhonda LeBeck
- Michael GrossBurt Gummer
- Reba McEntireHeather Gummer
- Victor WongWalter Chang
- Robert JayneMelvin Plug
- Ariana RichardsMindy Sterngood
- Charlotte StewartNancy Sterngood
- Tony GenaroMiguel
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
Horror/comedies often tread too far to one side or the other of that fine line; Tremors walks it like a tightrope. - 75
Washington Post
Tremors is a delightful throwback to such '50s and '60s films as "Them," "The Deadly Mantis" and "Attacks" of both "The Giant Leeches" and "The Crab Monsters." - 75
Boston Globe
Fast-moving, light-handed, assured, even witty at times, and filled with satisfying special effects, Tremors plays like a redneck "Dune." [19 Jan 1990, p.23] - 75
Chicago Tribune
While liberally dosing the action with humor, Underwood is able to preserve an undertone of genuine menace and substantial suspense. His shooting style is clean and classical, distinguished by camera movements that emphasize the line of the action without becoming conspicuous in themselves. - 75
Portland Oregonian
Directed and co-written by Ron Underwood, Tremors maintains a good, steady tongue-in-cheek tone while working nicely as a suspense thriller. [22 Jan 1990, p.D5] - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Tremors gets its characters into a series of hopeless situations and then resolves these situations in unexpected ways. I tried to out-guess the movie and couldn't. The movie might be nothing more than light entertainment, but care and thinking clearly went into it. [19 Jan 1990, p.E1] - 70
Los Angeles Times
It's a zippy melodrama for small-town America and small-towners at heart: well-executed kitsch for audiences that will still be amused at the notion that the bugs are getting so big, they'll drag us all down. - 63
Miami Herald
It refuses to take itself seriously. And that is its underlying strength. [19 Jan 1990, p.G9]
