Tremors (DVD, 1998, Collector's Edition)

Finally fed up with their going-nowhere job as handymen, brothers Earl (Fred Ward ) and Val (Kevin Bacon) decide to leave their very small, isolated town of Perfection, Nevada.

On their way out, they see a guy up a transmission tower and find out that he died from dehydration. Finding that odd, but not odd enough to stay, they try to leave again, only to find the one and only road out of town is blocked by a rock slide.

When weird things start happening, and other townsfolk start disappearing, the brothers find themselves teamed up with a cute seismology student, battling stinky, subterranean, man-eating worms.

Fred and Kevin feed off each other with a great chemistry and Michael Gross and Reba McIntyre are great as a gun-toting, ammo-hoarding, food-stocking, survivalist couple.

The movie has some very funny scenes and is more comedy than horror, but a must see if you just want to have a good time.

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"Exactly how many cows are required for a stampede, Earl?" This and myriad other life-and-death questions are explored in this likeable, darkly funny horror classic.
Handymen/cowboys Val and Earl (Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, respectively) are suffering from dwindling prospects in the tiny, isolated desert town of Perfection, Arizona.

After taking a surprise sewage-bath, the bickering duo pull up stakes, hell-bent on seeking their fortunes in the urban mecca of Bixby. They haven't gotten far, however, when they encounter a series of grisly obstacles. Ranchers begin to turn up dead, sheep, even station wagons go missing, sucked into the ground by forces unseen. The road out of town is blocked by a rockslide. Not until the cowboys try to go for help on horseback do they encounter one of the bus-sized worm-creatures that are turning their valley into "one long smorgasbord." After they inadvertantly kill the monster, Val shovels away a good thirty feet of sand before he finally exclaims, "Hey - check this out! I found the ass end!"

Notable over-the-top performances are turned in by Michael Gross and Reba McIntyre, as Bert and Heather Gummer, the survivalist couple whose time has come to shine. Finn Carter is featured as the undergrad with big eyes and a seismograph. Jurassic Park fans will recognize a very young Arianna Richards as Mindy, pogo-sticking her way down the middle of town, blissfully unaware of the voracious predators tunneling beneath her feet. Brick-by-brick, the creatures are tearing the town out from under the little band of survivors who must find a way out of Perfection!
Tremors is Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward at their best, and one of my all-time favorite movies.
-Douglas Naselroad

I love this movie so much that even though I own the dvd I still watch it on regular tv when it comes on. On it is on ALL the time!

A basic spoof on feature creatures from the 50's but with sharper wit and humor. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are a couple of handymen on a very small town. Fed up with their crappy job they decide to leave town but on the way out they find a dead guy up a transmission tower. Then the one road out of town is blocked by a rock slide. After that all hell breaks loose as underground creatures attack the town.

Great story and script, acting is fantastic - Bacon and Ward have such great chemistry! Funny but not scary, this is a comedy for us horror fans - buy it!

One could hardly call this a horror film. Tremors is modelled after horror films of the 40s and 50s with a twist to it. "They get you from underground!" is the quote from Kevin Bacon. The special effects team from Universal does a terrific job at putting together four of these underground animals that move like worms, but attack like moles. For only an hour and a half, the film does well at keeping the audience entertained. For this film Michael Gross takes a step out of his world in Family Ties with Michael J Fox to play a character that's armed to the teeth with guns and ammo and does his best to be prepared in any situation.

Oh wow, a cult classic at its finest! So very tongue in cheek, this film never takes itself too seriously, and its stellar cast seems to thumb their collective noses at conventional horror. Not to be confused with the very broad humor of more recent horror satires, there is actually some very fine acting skills displayed.

I love this film, my children love it, and now my granddaughter watches 'The Big Worm Movie' whenever possible,lol. I adore Kevin Bacon here, as well as the rest of the cast. Excellent action sequences, seriously funny, laugh out lod dialogue!