TREMORS fondly recalls monster movies of the 50s, and wisely treads a middle path between knowing sendup and cannily crafted chiller.
Trying to escape their dead-end life in the desert town of Perfection (population 14), handymen Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) find themselves sidetracked when corpses mysteriously begin piling up around them, the causes of death ranging from the strange (an old drunk is found halfway up
an electrical tower dead from dehydration) to the unknown. When the handymen have a run-in with some creepy tentacled creatures that have apparently made lunch out of a road crew, they realize they are in deep trouble and retreat to the to...
Released:
1990
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins