Tremors (film)

Tremors is a 1990 American western monster film from Universal Pictures, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Brent Maddock, and S. S. Wilson, directed by Ron Underwood, and written by Maddock, Wilson, and Underwood. Tremors stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire. This is the first installment of the Tremors franchise, which was followed by four directtovideo sequels TremorsAftershocks TremorsBack to Perfection a series prequel, TremorsThe Legend Begins and finally TremorsBloodlines.

Valentine Val McKee and Earl Basset work as handymen in Perfection, Nevada, an isolated exmining settlement in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They eventually tire of their jobs and leave for Bixby, the nearest town. As they leave, they discover another resident, Edgar, dead on top of an electrical tower, though still holding on to the towers cross beams, along with his .3030 Winchester rifle. Jim Wallace, the town doctor, determines that Edgar died of dehydration, apparently afraid for some reason to climb down. Later on, an unknown force kills an elderly shepherd, Old Fred, and his flock of sheep. Upon discovering his severed head buried in the sand, Val and Earl become convinced that a killer is on the loose they head back to town to warn the other residents. They try to get help, but upon discovering that the phone lines are dead, they find the only road out of town completely blocked by the rock slide that downed the phone lines. On the way back into town, their truck gets stuck. A snakelike creature with sharp teeth has grabbed onto and wrapped itself around the trucks rear axle it is torn apart when Val stomps on the gas pedal and drives away.Val and Earl return to town and borrow horses. They come upon Wallace and his wifes buried car near the couples trailer the couple are nowhere to be seen. As they press on, something suddenly erupts out of the ground, revealing the earlier snakelike creature to be one of the multiple tentacled tongues employed by an enormous burrowing wormlike creature, later named a Graboid. Thrown from their horses, the two men run for their lives. The chase ends when the eyeless creature violently rams itself into the concrete wall of an aqueduct, dying from the impact. Rhonda LeBeck, a graduate student conducting seismology tests in the area, stumbles onto the scene she deduces there are three other Graboids after finding three similar seismic disturbances happening at the same time. The three are then trapped o

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