Tremors (1990)

On our third commentary track we venture into the 90's, with this classic monster B-movie, directed by Ron Underwood, written by S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock and Ron Underwood, and executive produced by Gale Anne Hurd.

On this track we cover:

• The art of the B-movie
• Monster and miniature effects
• The sequels and the TV-series
• What's the deal with Melvin?
• And how to win at Rock-Paper-Scissors every time!

DOWNLOAD

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STATS

Participants: David Bjerre and Dennis Rosenfeld.
Day of recording: September 8th, 2011.
Version: Tremors US DVD (Also works with Bluray versions).
Movie runtime: 1:35:42.

SCREENSHOTS

Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon.

Town meeting.

Welcome to Perfection.

Miniature graboid shot.

Full-size graboid.

The in-camera effect shot, with a pan from the full-size gun...

... to a quarter scale graboid.

Is this where Melvin lives?

LITERATURE

Cinefex No. 42 (May 1990), article by Jody Duncan Shannon.

SFX #213 (October 2011), article by Jonathan Melville.

AUDIO/VIDEO

Special Features from the Collector's Edition DVD or Bluray.

LINKS

Cinefex. Link.

IMDb. Link.

Wikipedia. Link.

Rock Paper Scissors. Link.