Format: Syfy Channel on rockin’ flatscreen.
I like Kevin Bacon as an actor, and I’m not alone in that. There’s a reason that “Six Degrees of Bacon” became a thing—Kevin Bacon is not only in a lot of movies, but he’s easily identifiable and he’s also been in a lot of movies with ensemble casts. Bacon has been in a lot of movies I really like--A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River--but there may not be one that I enjoy more just for pure viewing pleasure than Tremors. This is a textbook example of how you do a monster horror/comedy.
Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) work as “handymen” in Perfection, Nevada, a tiny little town in the ass-end of nowhere. Both of them want nothing more than to get out of the life they’re living. Unfortunately for the two of them, the day they happen to leave is the same day that the monsters make their appearance known to the town. A few mysterious deaths and disappearances, and suddenly Val and Earl are in the middle of monster movie.
