Product Notes
Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star as two country handymen who lead a cast of zany characters to safety in this exciting sci-fi creature comedy. Just as Val McKee (Bacon) and Earl Basset (Ward) decide to leave Perfection, Nevada, strange rumblings prevent their departure. With the help of a shapely seismology student (Finn Carter), they discover their desolate town is infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground. The race is on to overcome these slimy subterraneans and find a way to higher ground, in this enjoyable thriller co-starring Michael Gross and Reba McEntire.
Product Reviews
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 who've died under extremely strange (and, in one instance, very grisly) circumstances. Eventually, they and a handful of their neighbors find the cause: gigantic prehistoric worm-like creatures that streak under the desert the way fish swim through oceans, reaching up and grabbing anything they need for food. Cut off from the outside world, they have to figure out how to get across the desert alive while these creatures -- that are smart as well as fast -- close in on them, stalking them like monster sharks. The film benefits from the presence of special effects that are good enough to pull this all off, keeping the shock value high, and also from a subtly humorous script and performances to match by the entire cast, and director Ron Underwood's breezy pacing of the whole picture. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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Tremors |
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SciFi / Fantasy |
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Science Fiction |
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9 November 2010 |
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Kevin Bacon(Valentine McKee), Fred Ward(Earl Basset), Finn Carter(Rhonda LeBeck), Michael Gross(Burt Gummer), Reba McEntire(Heather Gummer) |
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Ron Underwood |
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PG-13 |
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Blu-ray Disc |
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1114673 |
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025192067914 |
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MCA006791 |
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9 November 2010 |
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UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ( UNLS ) |
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96 |
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A: Americas, E Asia |
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1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen), Color, Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV |
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French, Spanish |
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Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS, DTS-HD Master Audio, English, French |
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Discs:1 ~ Format:Blu-Ray ~ Region:A |
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Ariana Richards(Mindy), Bibi Besch(Megan, The Doctor's Wife), Bobby Jacoby(Melvin Plug), Charlotte Stewart(Nancy), Conrad Bachmann(Jim, The Doctor), Finn Carter(Rhonda LeBeck), Fred Ward(Earl Basset), John Goodwin(Howard, Roadworker), John Pappas(Carmine, Roadworker), Kevin Bacon(Valentine McKee), Michael Dan Wagner(Old Fred), Michael Gross(Burt Gummer), Pam Dixon, Reba McEntire(Heather Gummer), Richard Marcus(Nestor), Sunshine Parker(Edgar), Tony Genaro(Miguel), Victor Wong(Walter Chang) |
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Art Director:Donald Maskovich, Casting:Pam Dixon, Cinematographer:Alexander Gruszynski, Cinematographer:Martin Schaer, Composer (Music Score):Ernest Troost, Composer (Music Score):Robert Folk, Director:Ron Underwood, Executive Producer:Gale Anne Hurd, Producer:Brent Maddock, Producer:S.S. Wilson, Screenwriter:Brent Maddock, Screenwriter:S.S. Wilson |
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