"Tremors" (2003) TV series

Creators:

Brent Maddock
Nancy Roberts
S.S. Wilson

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

28 March 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Action | Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Small town. Big problem.

Plot:

Perfection Valley, Nevada is a quaint little town. The inhabitants live peaceful, tranquil lives. Most of the time...

Plot Keywords:

Graboids | Shriekers | Monster | Based On Film | Giant Worm

Cast

Victor Browne	...	Tyler Reed (13 episodes, 2003)
Gladys Jimenez	...	Rosalita Sanchez (13 episodes, 2003)
Marcia Strassman	...	Nancy Sterngood (13 episodes, 2003)
Lela Lee	...	Jodi Chang (13 episodes, 2003)
Dean Norris	...	W.D. Twitchell (13 episodes, 2003)
Michael Gross	...	Burt Gummer (13 episodes, 2003)

Also Known As:

Tremors: The Series (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

60 min (13 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico

Company:

Stampede Entertainment

Quotes:

Rosalita: Why does everything weird thing in this valley go for me first?

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996) (V)

It's Graboid season!!!

Beware the graboids. Stay on the pavement. El Blanco is on the loose, but that doesn't bother the citizens of Perfection Valley, Nevada (population 7). Just another typical day for them..

This series is based on the movie trilogy Tremors. It picks up where part 3 left off. Surprisingly the main charachters make returns (two with new actors, two without) plus a few new faces.

If you haven't seen the Tremors films I'll sum them up.

It all began with the original tremors film. The town was bigger then. About 12 people lived around there then. Till people started getting killed. Turns out to be giant killer worm like creatures aka Graboids who hunt through sensing seismic vibrations in the ground. Well they manage to survive by killing all the worms.

In the second Earl gets hired along with a new guy Grady, to kill Graboids in Mexico around an oil field. They enlist hte help of Burt Gummer, a citizen of Perfection, who is a paranoid gun nut who is ready for WWIII with his own bomb shelter and enough MREs to last a decade. Well he heads down armed to the teeth (Thanks to the Mexican Gov.) and they kill lots of graboids.. till the change... into Shreikers. New ballgame now. They hatched little creatures the size of a large turkey. They run on two legs and hunt through heat vision. Well they survive.

In the third movie we return to Perfection. A couple more grabois show up. One is an albino. The government wants to stop the killing of the graboids because they are considered an endangered species. Well the worms turn into shreikers again, but then they change again.. into a new form. They blast fire out of their rears through a chemical reaction and launch them selves into flight. They are dubbed Assblasters (Buttlaunchers was another proposed name). Well Burt it smart. He knows that they can't do anything to them if the area is protected. He lets the albino worm live thus making Perfection Valley.

The series picks up where part 3 left off. Some charachters from the series moved on to better things. Val left to marry the Geologist after part one, Grady and Earl went to make a theme park based on the graboids, and Jack, the Graboid Safari tour guide, moved to Vegas. Melvin, as we learned in part 3, is now a real estate agent. He wants to turn Perfection Valley into his own town.. Melville. But as long as El Blanco, the albino graboid, is around that can't happen.

The series is like a Tremors version of Smallville. Strange things happen. In one episode a giant ghostly bacteria attacks sucking the water out of people. Plus there is always the potential (and there will be) more graboid, shreiker, and assblaster sightings.

I give this series an 8/10. The only problem I had was the jerky fast moving camera work during the graboid attacks. Other wise a big thumbs up!