Tremors

Tremors is the 2003 television spinoff of the popular sci-fi horror series which has spawned three sequels. Film series regular Michael Gross (Family Ties) returns to assay his popular character of Burt Gummer, arsenal toting survivalist who has run afoul of the voracious land sharks known as Graboids many times before. Burt Gummer still lives in Perfection Valley, Nevada where twice in the past giant worms have attacked and killed many of the residents. Naturally Burt would've blown away all of them by now but the government moved in and declared Graboids, or El Blanco, off limits because it was an endangered species. Also Burt chose to keep it alive to prevent sneaky real estate agent Melvin, sniveling teenage snot in the first film, from economizing Perfection. Besides giant worms, Burt must fend off hordes of other mega monsters who threaten his beloved town. The acting is passable and the other characters have their own interesting foibles, but everyone knows that the movies revolved around lonely, paranoid, neurotic Burt, sitting in his bomb shelter surrounded by his gun collection, waiting for the end of the world ... or for his ex wife to come back. MORE