Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.
A delightful throwback to such '50s and '60s films as "Them," "The Deadly Mantis" and "Attacks" of both "The Giant Leeches" and "The Crab Monsters."
– Richard Harrington,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
More than anything else, it looks like the sort of movie that might have been put together so that tourists visiting Universal Studios could see a movie being made.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
This is what a monster movie is supposed to be like, and it's terrific.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Horror/comedies often tread too far to one side or the other of that fine line; Tremors walks it like a tightrope.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
10 Jun 2008
rotten:
Tremors has a few clever twists but ultimately can't decide what it wants to be - flat-out funny, which it's not, or a scarefest.