Dark Discussions - Episode 186 - Kevin Bacon Focus: 1990's Tremors

Dark Discussions Podcast

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. By the end of the 1980's, slasher films had become a parody of themselves. Overplayed, many of them even became comedies, but slowly horror began to change and the monster movie had a brief revival with films like Pumpkinhead, Alien 3, The Lair of the White Worm, and the surprising hit, Tremors. Having landed Kevin Bacon as a lead, the film with its eclectic cast of stars including Fred Ward, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire, made for a budget of $11M USD earned over four times that. Perfection, a small dying town in Nevada with no more than 20 residents, resides hours away from the closest community. When two handymen find some of the locals dead, it's believed that a murderer is on the loose. Yet oddly peculiar seismic activity has occurred in the area. Joined by a seismologist participating in a university study, the three do a bit of detective work which leads to the discovery that there is a larger threat out in the desert. Tremors with its character humor, 1950's science fiction throwback horror, and its investigative procedural genus, the movie became a cult classic spawning multiple low budget sequels. Celebrating its 25th anniversary from release, Dark Discussions gives their take on a film that reinvigorated horror and monster films at a time when the genre was at a low point. As always we welcome your comments: [e-mail] (written email or attached mp3 files) WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM