TV Guide: Tremors

Video: Shriek and Destroy

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:41:03 -0400

Turkey ranch, Juniper, AZ. Night. A local rancher fixing the roof of his long-low turkey barn hears wood splintering. Looks off. Sees the door is torn off. Hears turkeys freaking out. And terrifying sound (the Shrieker Shriek!). Feathers fly out the barn windows. Guy jumps down, grabs shotgun. Enters barn. Screams! Twitchell (Dean Norris) arrives in Perfection with the news that Shriekers have appeared in Juniper. Another government agent is on the case, but Twitchell s superiors want Burt (Michael Gross) and Tyler (Victor Browne) to make sure the dangerous animals are eradicated properly.

Video: Water Hazard

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:41:02 -0400

A water truck pulls through a set of gates that reads, "Oasis - A Melco Development," and stops at the edge of a small lagoon. A fidgety Melvin Plug (Robert Jayne) pays the driver in cash and he dumps his load of water. As the truck drives off, Melvin confronts a worker tinkering with a pumping system. Melvin wants to see his fountain. The beleaguered worker flips the switch and the fountain shoots up crookedly. Melvin demands he fix it immediately. He powers off in his SUV while the worker rows out in a small boat to check on the fountain. As he nears the fountain apparatus, one of his oars is sucked out of his hands. He uses the remaining oar to begin paddling towards shore. Suddenly that oar is grabbed too.

Video: The Key

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:40:57 -0400

Larry Norvel (J. D. Walsh) explores the old Jessup place, an abandoned farm, with his video camera. Prowling around in the barn, he s scared by a rat darting across the floor. While filming the rat, a fluttering noise descends from the rafters and starts circling him. Something he can't see thumps him on the side of the head. Larry lands in a heap on the floor, his camera knocked away but still running. As he gets up, it looks as though something invisible is carrying off the rat.

Video: The Sounds of Silence

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:40:55 -0400

Burt's (Michael Gross) away so Tyler's (Victor Browne) on patrol. In the dusty Perfection backcountry, he runs across Dr. Donna Debevic (Joan McMurtrey) making recordings of El Blanco. She's finishing up a book on animal communications while adding to her collection of animal distress signals and wildlife mating calls. Donna attracts El Blanco with an ultrasonic signal and soon he begins ramming her truck. Donna calmly hangs on and continues recording. Then, bizarrely, El Blanco gives up and streaks away. On Tyler's Jeep-seismo, a second blip appears! Then the seismo-monitor goes completely dead. What is going on?

Video: Graboid Rights

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:40:53 -0400

Ready to begin a tour, Tyler (Victor Browne) is shocked to discover five protestors, led by Ray (David J. Wright), have chained themselves to his Jeep. As the protestors chide Tyler for exploiting El Blanco like a sideshow attraction, a convoy of cars and buses trundles into town. More protestors spill out onto the road, waving signs and chanting "Save the Worm." In the desert, Dr. Ellie Bergen (Rebecca McFarland), an earnest young zoologist, digs in the ground. Suddenly El Blanco barrels towards her. She's wearing her wrist seismo on her belt loop, so she didn't feel it vibrating. Ellie races for her car, barely managing to climb onto the hood as El Blanco arrives. His tentacles lash out and latch onto her.

Video: Project 4-12

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:40:51 -0400

Cletus Poffenburger (Christopher Lloyd) returns to his hardscrabble haven in a forgotten canyon. Looks like he sleeps under a hammock with only netting for a roof. Cletus heads for a wooden shed built up against a wall and begins apologizing to whatever is inside. "Sorry, 4-12," Cletus says. "I musta picked the valley clean." But he promises to head in a different direction tomorrow. The only response he gets is a low growl.

Video: A Little Paranoia Among Friends

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:40:49 -0400

Toluca, New Mexico. Sheriff Tucker (Greg Fitzpatrick) makes his rounds as a bad sandstorm starts up. On the outskirts of town he comes upon a small kiosk that surrounds a giant satellite dish device. One of the attachments has blown off, so Tucker parks his cruiser and goes over to fix it. He radios the station and speaks with his Deputy Manny Garcia (Sal Lopez), asking him if the battery in the I.G.C. is due for replacing. Manny consults a bulletin board and tells Tucker he might as well change the battery since he s out there. The wind really starts to howl as Tucker installs a new battery. The sand blows more fiercely and then a blinding light shines down on him. He looks up curiously as the blowing sand slowly erases his figure from view.

Video: The Sounds of Silence

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:25:19 -0400

Season 1, Episode 10: Activists must get rid of a swarm of wood-eating bugs that have developed a taste for human flesh.

Video: Flora or Fauna

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:52 -0400

Season 1, Episode 5: The Tremors team must work in conjunction with visiting scientists to thwart an acid spewing plant before it destroys the town.

Video: A Little Paranoia Among Friends

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:51 -0400

Season 1, Episode 7: Tremor Activists are sent to Toluca, New Mexico in order to investigate the disappearance of several citizens and to save the community from Graboids.

Video: Shriek and Destroy

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:50 -0400

Season 1, Episode 13: Tremors activists are sent to Juniper, Arizona to hunt down the Shriekers that have taken over the town.

Video: Night of the Shriekers

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:50 -0400

Season 1, Episode 3: Tremors activists must slaughter the Shriekers before they take over the town.

Video: Blast from the Past

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:50 -0400

Season 1, Episode 4: Burt takes his survival class on a life changing adventure, but is paged on his walkie with an emergency. Burt has no choice but to take his students back to town.

Video: The Key

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:49 -0400

Season 1, Episode 11: Las Vegas thugs go to Perfection to retrieve a key to a safe deposit box that was being held for safekeeping by one of their partners who has since been swallowed by El Blanco.

Video: Project 4-12

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:49 -0400

Season 1, Episode 8: Tremor activists must demolish a man-made creature before it takes over the town and destroys their perfect way of life.

Video: Water Hazard

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:48 -0400

Season 1, Episode 12: Tremors activists must contain and kill a prehistoric creature living in the local lagoon.

Video: Graboid Rights

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:48 -0400

Season 1, Episode 9: Protestors occupy the town in order to prove that the Perfection Valley residents are exploiting El Blanco.

Video: Ghost Dance

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:24:48 -0400

Season 1, Episode 2: Tremors activists stumble upon a potential ghost and must save the residents of the town before the town itself is destroyed.

Video: Tremors Trailer

TV Land — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:50:02 -0400

Opened: 10/05/1979

Video: Tremors

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:02:28 -0400

Tremors is actually two movies in one. On its own terms, it's an enjoyable modern sci-fi horror-thriller, with good pacing and a sense of humor; but it's also a loving tribute to such 1950s low-budget desert-based sci-fi-horror films like Them!, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, and The Monolith Monsters. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are the stars, a pair of small-town handymen living in a small desert community, who stumble upon several difficult-to-explain phenomena, including a couple of people who've died under extremely strange (and, in one instance, very grisly) circumstances. Eventually, they and a handful of their neighbors find the cause: gigantic prehistoric worm-like creatures that streak under the desert the way fish swim through oceans, reaching up and grabbing anything they need for food. Cut off from the outside world, they have to figure out how to get across the desert alive while these creatures -- that are smart as well as fast -- close in on them, stalking them like monster sharks. The fil