Tremors
Tremors
A small town gradually becomes aware of a strange creature which picks off people one by one. But what is this creature, and where is it? At the same time, a seismologist is working in the area, she detects _tremors_. The creature lives underground, and can 'pop up' without warning. Trapped in their town, the town-folk have no escape.
Gabriel Cahue reviewedJune 25, 2025
Dust off your TV and flip it to Mexican Channel 5 on any given Sunday —you might stumble across Tremors, and nostalgia will sucker-punch you in the best way. With the announcement of a new series —a direct sequel to the original film, and Kevin Bacon returning as the lead— I couldn’t resist revisiting it.
I barely remembered it; it had been nearly 20 years since I last saw it. I thought, “I’ll just have it on in the background while I do other stuff,” but yeah… nope. The moment it started, the atmosphere, the setting, that ‘90s flavor —it pulled me in hard. I watched the whole thing in one go, no breaks. And these days? That almost never happens.
It’s weird how we humans work: no matter how good something is, if it gets shown too many times, it starts to feel… meh. That’s what happened to this little gem. They ran it so many times on TV, it got played out. But revisiting it with fresh eyes? It’s a damn solid movie. Budgeted at just $11 million, and it punches way above its weight.
The Graboids (yes, that’s what the creatures are called) still look surprisingly believable even today. The characters are absolutely endearing —the two leads with their chaotic buddy chemistry, and those gun-crazy survivalists that feel like they walked straight out of a Trump rally.
If it’s been a while since your last watch, give it another spin. Odds are, it’s floating around on YouTube. It hasn’t aged badly at all —honestly, it deserves to be rediscovered without the haze of repetition.