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Tremors
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Tremors is a 1990 American science fiction comedy horror film directed by Ron Underwood and written by Underwood and S. S. Wilson. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd and S. S. Wilson, the movie stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, and Reba McEntire. Filmed in California locations including the Alabama Hills, Olancha, and Lone Pine, the story is set in a desert environment. The production was handled by No Frills Film and Wilson-Maddock Production.
The film has a runtime of 96 minutes and was released on January 19, 1990. It holds a PG-13 rating. Critical assessments include an 86% score, a 7.1 out of 10 rating, and a 65 out of 100 Metascore. The movie grossed $16,667,084 against a budget of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000. It is part of the Tremors media franchise and is distributed by Netflix via video on demand.
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6.9Val 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.
Cast
- Kevin Bacon as Valentine McKee
- Fred Ward as Earl Bassett
- Finn Carter as Rhonda LeBeck
- Michael Gross as Burt Gummer
- Reba McEntire as Heather Gummer
- Victor Wong as Walter Chang
Themes
- small town
- nevada
- old town
- stranded
- rural area
- creature
- tentacle
- graboids
- seismologist
- binoculars
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
164,656 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
65/100
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Ron Underwood
- Screenplay by
- S. S. Wilson Brent Maddock
- Story by
- S. S. Wilson Brent Maddock Ron Underwood
- Produced by
- Brent Maddock S. S. Wilson
- Starring
- Kevin Bacon Fred Ward Finn Carter Michael Gross Reba McEntire
- Cinematography
- Alexander Gruszynski
- Edited by
- O. Nicholas Brown
- Music by
- Ernest Troost
- Production companies
- No Frills Productions Pacific Western Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- January 19, 1990 ( 1990-01-19 )
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $5–11 million
- Box office
- $16.7 million (U.S.)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Ron Underwood
- Screenwriter
- Ron Underwood
- Cast member
- Robert Jayne
- Producer
- S. S. Wilson
- Cinematographer
- Alexander Gruszynski
- Filming location
- Lone Pine
- Duration
- 96
- FilmAffinity ID
- 796625
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1990-00-00
- title
- Tremors
- distributed by
- Netflix
- media franchise
- Tremors
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- Tremors
- set in environment
- desert
- review score
- 65/100
- capital cost
- 10000000
- box office
- 16667084
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Encyclopedic overview
Tremors is a 1990 American monster comedy horror film directed by Ron Underwood (in his feature directorial debut) and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, from a story by Wilson, Maddock, and Underwood. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire (in her acting debut). Set in the fictional isolated desert town of Perfection, Nevada, it follows handymen Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Bassett as they and the town's residents confront giant subterranean worms dubbed Graboids.
Conceived as a modern variation on 1950s monster films, Tremors was designed around ordinary protagonists rather than conventional genre heroes, while its monsters were deliberately left without a fixed origin. Filmed in Inyo County, California, with an extensive desert set built to represent Perfection, the production relied heavily on practical creature effects and miniature work. It distinguished itself by staging much of its monster action in broad daylight. Its music underwent major revision during post-production: Ernest Troost composed the initial score, but Robert Folk later wrote much of the music used in the released film.
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