Tremors
1990 · Movie · PG-13 · 96 min · ★ 6.9 · 77% critics
In a tiny desert town, everyday locals discover something huge is moving beneath their feet. As mysterious attacks cut them off from help, they band together to outsmart relentless underground predators and stay alive—often by keeping off the ground and thinking fast.
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Details
- Years
- 1990
- Release date
- 1990-01-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (3,567 votes)
- Box office
- $16,667,084
- Budget
- $10,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a light, crowd-pleasing monster movie with laughs, suspense, and a scrappy small-town survival vibe, similar to Arachnophobia or Gremlins 2: The New Batch; Not for you if you want serious, grim horror.
Pros: fun creature-feature energy; likable buddy banter; inventive underground threat | Cons: thin story depth; slow start for some; disbelief required
Themes
- small town
- nevada
- old town
- stranded
- rural area
- creature
- tentacle
- graboids
- seismologist
- binoculars
- town
- cursed town
- +4 more
Cast & crew
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
Robert Jayne
as Melvin Plug
Ariana Richards
as Mindy Sterngood
Charlotte Stewart
as Nancy Sterngood
Tony Genaro
as Miguel
Directed by Ron Underwood