Where to go in a franchise after three films can be a tricky thing, actually, coming up with three entries isn’t all that easy in the first place, so with three movies under their belt the producers decided to go the prequel route, yet this wouldn’t be your typical prequel but one that would be…
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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) – Review
With the success of the direct-to-video release of Tremors 2: Aftershocks a sequel was bound to happen – it just took a while – and so five years later we get the return of a few more original cast members, along with the franchise’s flagship star Michael Gross, in an entry that brings us back…
Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) – Review
In 1990 a little monster film called Tremors came and went with barely a ripple at the box office, even good reviews couldn’t spur audiences to visit the town of Perfection, but with the advent of home video this overlooked gem garnered a second shot at life, and like Frankenstein’s monster it rose from the…
Tremors (1990) – Review
In what was basically a throwback to the creature-features of old director Ron Underwood and writers S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock came up with an idea they first dubbed “Land Sharks” – which was basically Jaws on land – but where they would stray from that classic monster formula was in the protagonists who wouldn’t…
Them! (1954) – Review
“When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we’ll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict” and it was these chilling words that closed out the 1954 classic science-fiction film Them! and set the tone for many such films to follow, a genre filled with nuclear-created…