Watch the dirt, limber up your pole vaulting skills, and for the love of Walter Chang's convenience store - stay off the ground! We're headed straight into Perfection, Nevada, population: snack-sized.
Art and Erik are tunneling deep into the 1990 horror-comedy masterpiece Tremors! So fire up the four-wheel drive because the Graboids are hungry, and your best bet is climbing a boulder and praying your boots don't slip.
We'll talk about the glorious creature design, the wide-open desert cinematography that somehow makes you feel even more trapped, and the greatest small-town ensemble this side of a disaster movie—Kevin Bacon in tight jeans and gorgeous hair, Fred Ward grumbling like a pro, Michael Gross armed to the teeth, and Reba McEntire proving country really does know how to shoot.
Sure, Tremors belly-flopped at the box office, but like any good monster, it just wouldn't stay buried. Thanks to home video, it spawned a heck of a lot of sequels and even a TV series nobody asked for. We'll dig into the movie's magic cocktail of action, horror, and comedy, plus the absolute nightmare of filming in the middle of nowhere while your movie is literally about being stuck in the middle of nowhere.
So grab your elephant gun, play rock paper scissors over who is running to save the girl on the pogo stick, and join us as we celebrate the wiggly desert death-worms that could—and did—become one of the most beloved cult monster movies of the '90s.
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