Shanelle: “This guy has a mustache and a hairdo that makes me think he does next.” This Guy: Goes on to be the main character of the entire franchise. 😂
The little girl, "Mindy" is played Ariana Richards who would go on to play "Lex Murphy" in Jurassic Park and Reba McEntire's husband in the movie is played by Michael Gross, who played "Steven Keaton" in the TV Series "Family Ties".
A near perfect film doing exactly what it sets out to do. And the characters are not "horror movie stupid" most of the time but make smart decisions and are actually trying to survie. A true classic and definitely a personal favourite with a great cast.
The pan shot reveal to the wall of guns is a thing of cinematic legend. Brilliant script and pitch perfect execution by all involved, such a great fun movie, love it. Criminal it didn't do better on first release. I believe Victor Wong had Bell's palsy which is why he had the squint, like Michael Berryman his unusual looks are what made his film career. Broke into the wrong god damn rec room didn't you, you bastard!!
This was such an under the radar movie for the longest time. Then it started getting play on cable and the internet has raised the awareness of it. It was better than it deserved to be.
I probably watched this movie, plus the first two sequels, about 2 dozen times a piece on SyFy (when it was the Sci Fi Network), and the first one in particular is just sooo damn good
Not true, this was a big hit at the time. That why Tremors 2 came out soon after but Kevin Bacon said no, Fred Ward and Michael Gross jumped at the chance to do 2, Reba said if Michael is in it, Hell no. Hello gave her a very hard time on Tremors seeing it was her first film and never wanted to work with him again. After 2 it died down, then 3 brought the original characters back except the leads, they screwed up their own lore, and it took Tremors the TV show to make #4, and the rest is history.
As an actor, Michael Gross playing Burt was brilliant. When he is handed back the unloaded gun, he knows it is unloaded and he still safety checks to see that it is unloaded. The movie is remarkable in nuance. Also, when Earl falls out of the truck in the beginning, that's foreshadowing of the Worm out of the cliff.
This is great movie, it homage to 50s b-movies. The script is tight, the characters are likeable and you really are rooting for the people to survive. The characters act in a way that feels believable. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward have great chemistry together. Great reaction
If you like little trivia bits, you might be amused to know that Burt (played by Michael Gross) played a pseudo-hippy father in the 80s hit show, Family Ties. The literal day after they wrapped the final episode of Family Ties, he started on the Tremors project because he was anxious to not be type-cast in roles only like his role on the show lol. There are 7 movies and 13 episodes of a TV show that's set just after the third movie. So, if you want to binge the franchise with friends, the watch order is 1-3, TV Show, 4-7. Whatever you do, don't play the drinking game if you try to binge the entire franchise in one night or something... new livers are so expensive on the black market 😛
4 is a prequel, though, and doesn't relate back to any of the others except that it also has Michael Gross in it. I'm fairly sure you can just watch it whenever.
It was actually immersion breaking for him to play Burt. He overdid it which helped and absolutely necessary. I love the first film as fun but the rest of the franchise is a little weak. I would not recommend unless the first really struck a cord with you.
@jack_m100 I kind of like the fourth one for the back story. It has a unique perspective because the viewers know about the underground monsters, but the residents don't. Sorry for the spoiler if you were planning on watching it, Shanelle.
This was a career renaissance to an extent for both Ward and Bacon. Ward broke out in the “Right Stuff” in 1983, then was cast to star in a planned series of “Remo Williams” movies, but the first one flopped, and his career generally sputtered until “Tremors,” which led to more high-profile work in the ‘90s. Bacon broke out BIG in “Footloose” in ’84, then his career sputtered until “Tremors.” After that, he scored several big roles in hit movies in the ‘90s.
And I always liked Remo, to bad it didn't catch on, had Big Trouble in Little China vibes and Ward is always so likable. Try out Miami Blues with Alec Baldwini also for a good little movie he does a fine job in.
One of my favorite giant monster movies as a kid! And it still is! I remember watching this on the Navajo Nation on NBC back in the early 90's. The idea of the movie came from Brent Maddock and SS Wilson, both of them were in the Navy. They were sitting on a large boulder in a Nevada Test Site, taking notes and one of them said, " What if there was something under the ground that would never let us off this rock?" And thus, TREMORS was born.
The character of Burt Gummer was played by Micheal Gross, who also played the dad on Family Ties. It's funny that you thought that he was slated to be killed off because he is the only actor to appear in all of the sequels and even the prequel. And he starred in the TV series. In 2017 they were talking about rebooting the series with Kevin Bacon, but they decided not to do the reboot.
3:12 I love how they foreshadow the ending of the movie right at the beginning. Kevin Bacon's character causing Earl to fall out of the truck, kind of looking like a "Graboid" in his sleeping bag, by scaring him. "Stampede!"
I first saw this movie as a teenager, late night courtesy of the BBC, and I've loved it ever since. Three things I want to bring up if Shanelle reads this: 1) If you didn't spot it (might be in the full reaction), Mindy the pogo stick girl was played by Ariana Richards, who a few years later had a much higher-profile monster movie role as Lex in Jurassic Park. 2) If you love a good movie explosion, you've got to see Tremors 2, it has the most realistic-looking movie explosion I've ever seen. 3) Burt the "crazy survivalist" has the greatest moment of gun handling I've ever seen in a movie. When he takes the revolver back from Melvin, a gun he knows wasn't loaded when he gave it to Melvin, who he was sure wasn't carrying ammunition of any kind, let alone the right kind, and which Melvin is yelling at him about because it's not loaded, he still instinctively flips open the cylinder to check if it's loaded. It's done in such a casual way that it's got to be instinctive for the character and shows that he's not just a crazy gun nut, he really knows how to handle a firearm properly.
@@BenjWarrant "It's not my fault, I just took the gun and pointed the gun and pulled the trigger without thinking!"... literally any kid with 30 seconds of gun safety training can explain what's wrong with that situation.
@@st0n3p0ny I don't know what you're on about, I simply responded to OP saying he watched _Tremors_ when it was broadcast by the BBC - a channel on which I have seen no end of absolutely classic films over the years. I couldn't care less about guns.
This fits firmly in the category of movies that, if it's on TV, you'll watch it again, even if it's the 876th time... feels as warm as it looks, a nice easy, fun watch that always makes you feel better Light, yet sharply written humorous comedy with great characters
Lost your fear and learned to appreciate the humor of these movies early. When my sister and niece watched Jurassic Park my neice was cheering for the dinosaurs. We knew she was one of the family then.
@@TheLanceUppercutI think she's gonna learn her lesson just fine - she seems to like monster movies and the tremors franchise is top tier when it comes to monster movies, i reckon she'll watch more and Burt is pretty much the main character in every god damn one of them baby!! lol
Can't wait to watch this. Anyone who goes into Tremors with low expectations will be pleasantly surprised. Great performances all around, pacing, amazing practical effects, and humor that still make me laugh even after seeing it 100 times for the past 30 years... I just love everything about this movie!
"I wanna see Mindy and her pogo stick get swallowed whole." - Dark Shanelle Mindy was also the little girl in Jurassic Park. When Shanelle said she loved "guts" I just laughed and thought "Wait...".
Screenwriter S.S. Wilson's RU-vid channel "Real Deal Productions" Is a gold mine of behind the scenes footage, and commentary on the making of Tremors. He's still actively uploading as of this past week.
Great selection. The sequels are pretty good, too. I first saw this film on VHS tape back in the early 1990's. Great memories of this one. Kevin Bacon gave another brilliant performance.
For a campy jaws on land monster movie it has more charm it deserves. Good scares, great sound design and each character has just enough depth. Perfection one could say. Kevin Bacon thought this was the low point of his career, but its legacy eventually changed his mind about it
This movie fueled so many of my childhood "floor is lava" type games lol my cousins and I use to throw pillows down as residual boulders and hop from one to another and if you fell you become the lava monster!! Thanks for the review!
Tremors is one of the best monster movies ever. There's a lot of good scenes in this but the best ones in my opinion are: when the towns residents are outside the store and the scene goes to a wide shot (especially with the harmonica playing) after they realize there could be more creatures and the other scenes are when we see the giant worms moving under ground through the dirt. Also the little girl playing Mindy in this was the same young girl from jurassic Park.
That should be the tag line for the movie: "Tremors: Better Than It Aught To Be!" I saw the theatrical release and watched it a ton on cable TV back in the day. I think also some distant relative sent me a DVD copy for Christmas; which is still in my collection.
It's in my top ten movies of all time. Super sharp script, great cast with a ton of chemistry, highly creative special effects and camerawork, amazing score, gripping action sequences... it has it all. I saw it on VHS as a teenager and its so rewatchable, I've lost count lol.
Fred Ward as Earl Bassett (RiP) was my favorite character in this film. His role in Remo Williams as the titular character was severely underrated. Recommend you check it out.
I actually saw Tremors in theater, the 3rd day after it was released. It was immediately added to my all-time favorites list of horror/sci-fi flicks and I've rewatched it at least 30 times since then! Love it!!
"Tremors": The B- movie that rose to A-level with a mix of Humor, Horror and Romance. Kevin Bacon was at a low point in his career as said, "Yeah, I made 'Tre,mors." These days, he says "Hell Yeah I made 'Tremors!";) 28:50 My favorite monster movie is..."Alien" (1979)! Still scary to new viewers after over FORTY years.;) "Tremors" was a TBS/TNT discovery.
The beginning scene of Kevin Bacon scaring Burt out of the truck in his brown sleeping bag foreshadows the ending death of the monster falling out of the cliff.
So many setups and payoffs, just the right amount of characterization for the cast, nearly a perfect script and great audio design. They knew exactly what they were making and executed the game plan with gusto. Some annoying snobby cinema folks trash this as cheapo Jaws-but-on-land schlock, but I think this film is just plain awesome and so much fun.
The first three movies tell the 'whole' story of the creatures with the 4th being more of a prequel and a way to kind of relive the first one in a different era. The rest kinda take the concept of Graboids and just run with them. Burt does appear in all of them. Most of the cast (who survived in the movies) appear between the first three with the exception of Kevin and Reba - who sadly never came back to reprise their roles. And as much as we all *love* Melvin - Burt does get a smidge of justice in the 3rd one....lol
This movie made me fall in love with Reba! Damn, that little girl will be attacked by dinosaurs in 3 years. This guy wasn't in Gremlins, he was in Big Trouble in Little China. Gremlins guy is Keye Luke, who was a regular in 1970s Kung Fu.
One of my favorites! A bit silly, a bit serious, a lot in-between.This movie has legit "monsters", relatable characters, and plausible situations/solutions with a few grains of salt. Thanks, Shan, for another one that i remember from the theaters (jeez, I'm getting old!). And speaking of Victor Wong, how about Big Trouble in Little China?
An absolutely amazing movie, with damn near perfect pacing. constant set-ups/ payoffs, and just overall FUN! Tremors was basically Jaws on land. It's no wonder it spawned an entire SERIES of (lesser) sequels. I don't really remember exactly where I first saw Tremors. VHS? Network TV? I "think" I saw it in Theatres.
I love this movie. The pogo stick girl is the hacker girl from Jurassic Park. Burt is played by Michael Gross who played the father in the family sitcom Family Ties which starred Michael J Fox.
There are 7 movies. Earl and Burt are the only ones to appear in the second movie but then after the second movie, this became Burt's franchise as Burt (Michael Gross) is the only cast member to appear in all 7 movies and a short lived TV series.
Victor Wong squints because he suffered Bell's palsy in 1974. Prior to that, he was actually an on-air anchor for KQED in San Francisco, but the facial paralysis put an end to that.
When actor Fred Ward says "At least he can't climb", it reminded me of another movie he stars in, "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins", which had a small scene of him being chased by dogs. Do not want to spoil it here though, that movie is worth watching for some great characters.
One of the weird funny lines in this movie that I love is when Val and Earl are getting on the horses, Walter comes up and hands them "Swiss cheese and bullets".
in re: Being afraid of movies ..... Some years ago, the animated film "Monster House" came out. I took my 3 children to see it, with their ages being 11, 9, and 7 at the time. There's a bunch of set up, but eventually the main characters enter in to the titular Monster House. My 9-yr old started keeing a little becuz he was so scare. My 7-yr old rolled her eyes and announced (loudly enough to be heard in every corner of the theater) "C'mon Travis! You know they're not gonna die... they're the main characters!" The entire room (nearly full crowd) busted out in to laughter, and I don't think any child in the place was scared at all through out the rest of the movie....
I'm always surprised when a RU-vid reactor hasn't seen this movie. 😉 And I believe there are five more movies after this, of varying quality. And a short-lived TV series.
It wasn't a made-for-TV movie, but it fits so well in that niche it did _exceptionally_ well on TV. To the point that I almost instinctively connect it with the TNT cable network.
3:25 - Oh yeah, Reba's in this! There's quite a bit of cinema royalty here. Actors from Eraserhead, John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness (and Big Trouble In Little China), Jurassic Park...
I love this movie. I've rewatched it countless times, including every reaction youtube channels have ever featured it. I was born within the same year this hit vhs, and I can't remember the first time I watched it, because I was so young. In 1998 my little mom and pop vhs rental store, gifted it to me when my dad passed, because we rented it so many times together, or even separately, if just my mom took me.
This wasn't made for tv, it actually had a cinematic release...and tanked hard. Then it started doing well on VHS rentals, enough to warrant a sequel in 1996 and spawning a total of 7 films in the franchise, as well as a 13 episode series and an unaired pilot for a Kevin Bacon lead series a few years ago.
Since you have to know: no, I saw it in '91 or '92 on cable (like, DUH!) It was so much fun! Re-watched it every chance I got. This is why I had been requesting it for such a long time. Thanks for finally checking it out. Did not disappoint! 😊
"Hope mustache guy dies" lol yea no, Burt is in every movie in the franchise. From the third movie on he's basically the main character/hero/resident Graboid (thats what the creatures are called) hunter 😂
@Shanelle Riccio - I have the perfect Memorial Day film for you…and it actually stars Kevin Bacon ~ “Taking Chance” a superb film and it’s only about 88 mins. There is no blood/gore…and it is an extremely moving film. I think you’ll love it…and be impressed by what the filmmakers achieved. I had been my annual Memorial Day viewing tradition for about 6 years now. 2nd Best… “Gardens of Stone” which is an older film but will blow your mind when you watch it and see all the cast of it!
Great movie. I usually don't like horror movies but this is the exception. You should also see Stir of Echos 1999 a sci fi horror also with Kevin Bacon Also a great Fred Ward movie is Remo Willams the adventure begins. I love the scene with the monster that attack the gun crazy couple it cracks me up :) . You got in into the wrong rec room :) . Fyi about the crazy gun couple. The woman is Reba a famous country singer and the guy was famous as the hippie dad (What a 180 :) ) on the popular 80's show Family Ties with Micheal J Fox (Marty from Back To The Future). Also the ending was change because the test audience wanted to be a kiss.
This movie was SUPER popular in the early 90's. It was always on TV and it was one of those VHS covers at the video store that always caught your eye even if you had already seen it. I think the movie is done so damn well because it is a silly, stupid, corny, over the top monster movie........but it knows EXACTLY what it wants to be and becomes just that: exactly the type of movie it set out to be. If they were trying to make a really serious film then this would not work and it'd feel like a made for TV Syfy movie, but this is serious when it has to be, silly, and fun. Plus the location is great and I love how self-aware it is by literally mentioning every single plot hole. Some are things such as the road being blocked, the town being isolated, and not being able to "penetrate" the exterior with bullets. Fun ass movie.
@@fs127 I lost mine ages ago, but man did this one have an awesome cover. I still remember always trying to decide between this movie and stuff like Cliffhanger and 3 Ninjas. The 90s were wild.
You know how they say that sometimes, the second movie is better than the first? Tremors is an exception to that. The first is significantly the best. Both Kevin Bacon and Reba McEntire have some of the best sarcastic comebacks in this whole movie.
Great movie! I like your scared reactions and how you tried to play it off with your nervous tough laugh, too funny!! 😆 And your comment about the, "it took them until the end of the movie to go fishing?", was hilarious! Well it seems to me they couldn't bomb fish because they had no bombs until near the end of the film. Too funny!! See ya next time. 👋😂
When characters think out of situations, those are my favorite type of movies! I remember watching this on HBO's Saturday night premier, back then when you only have two premium channels of HBO & Cinemax.
😆Yes!!! Thank you for doing a reaction to my personal cult favorite movie... i ❤ the Tremors franchise (Tremors 2 is my personal favorite) and Burt Gummer is the man!
This is on my list for top creature features/monster movies. Jurassic Park is my favorite but after that in no particular order it's this, Alien and Aliens, Jaws, The Thing, The Blob and Grabbers, one which most don't seem to know about.
I was in college and saw Tremors at the theater. I thought it was fantastic. It was out of the theater by the end of the week. I had always wished they would have gotten the original cast back together for a finale. I had an idea for a screenplay called "Tremors: Grabageddon" and would take place in Perfection. Fred Ward past away so that idea can no longer happen.
I grew up on this movie and I absolutely loved it. I saw this after watching the classic monster movies for the first time, and I've been a huge fan of creature features ever since
