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Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell
Movie:![3 Stars :3stars: :3stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/3_stars.png)
Video:![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Audio:![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Extras:![2 Stars :2stars: :2stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2_stars.png)
Final Score:
Movie:
![3 Stars :3stars: :3stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/3_stars.png)
Video:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Audio:
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Extras:
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Final Score:
![3.5 Stars :3.5stars: :3.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/3.5_stars.png)
Not too many B-movie franchises have lasted as long as the Tremors series has endured. We’re sitting at 28 years old this year, and the series just keeps on ticking. 1990’s Tremors was a fun little bit of old fashioned fun, but nobody ever expected it to really take off and continue on with 5 more sequels (most of them DTV) and last way past all but one of the original star’s sell by date. I guess you could say it’s a personal passion project for actor Michael Gross, but he has become the binding unit of the series, being the only actor to be in all 6 films, and from what I gather, one of the big proponents of getting more made. While I don’t pretend to hail the series as anything more than a guilty pleasure, I can’t deny just how much fun the movies are (in that guilty sort of way), and have large the fan base actually is. Well, like clockwork, Universal Studios brings us the SIXTH film in the franchise, and if you’ve watched any of the last 4 sequels, then you know EXACTLY what you’re getting yourself into. Burt shooting up the place, and graboids munching on human flesh.
I will say this for the series. They have continually re-used the same old plot points a half dozen times, but also manage to keep it fresh enough to be interesting. It used to be an old Southwest series where underground monsters known as graboids popped out like sand worms from Dune to eat people. Well, film #5 decided that it was time to go BIGGER, so they introduced Jamie Kennedy as Burt’s loose cannon partner, Travis, and moved the entire operation to Africa when a graboid sighting pops up. This time Burt (Michael Gross) and Travis are back in action again, but this time in a whole new environment. A team of scientists in the Canadian Arctic have just experienced a graboid attack in the frozen tundra, and they are calling on Burt to do what he does best. Kill graboids
Only thing is, it’s not as easy as it looks. The frozen Tundra turns out to be the perfect killing grounds for the beasts, as the tear out the roads and make it impossible for the scientists and graboid hunters to get OUT of the little canyon they’re in. A veritable kill zone with the humans as the targets. To make matters worse, they can’t just kill them all this time. Burt was infected with a graboid virus when he got swallowed in the last film, and the disease is just now making itself known. Like all these movies, the only thing that can save Burt is antibodies from the graboids, and to make matters works they have to get them from a LIVE graboid. Meaning, one of those little nasties has to be taken alive so they can cure the old man before his body fails completely.
Acting wise. Yeah, it’s the same old Michael Gross, and Jamie Kennedy is his normal over the top self. The rest of the actors are painfully B-movie level (which isn’t helped at all by a script that just oozes cheese) material, and once again Burt and Travis are the mainstays of the film. Michael Gross just CHEWS the scenery like he always does, and Kennedy is actually more restrained than he usually is (and also looking older and chubbier). I won’t say that these are stellar performances, but the two guys never fail to turn in a FUN experience in these movies.
Rating:
Rated PG-13 for creature violence, gore, crude humor, and language
Video:
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Audio:
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Extras:
![2 Stars :2stars: :2stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2_stars.png)
• Anatomy of a Scene: Watch as we break down the various elements that need to come together to film the first underwater Graboid attack.
• Inside Chang's Market: Chang's Market is an iconic location in Tremors history. See how it was recreated and updated for this installment of the franchise.
Final Score:
![3.5 Stars :3.5stars: :3.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/3.5_stars.png)
I’m actually rather surprised that the Tremors series hasn’t jumped the proverbial shark yet. It’s a 28 year old series perpetuated by a single member of the original cast, AND they’re coming out as fast and often as the Bring it On series. Just with more guns and guts. Even though they’re not high art, I’ve always had a weakness for the B-level series, and Michael Gross does a fantastic job at keeping the series alive way past its sell by date. Universal once again puts forth an excellent audio and video presentation (although extras are naturally pretty sparse), making a good disc for fans of the series to collection. Definitely worth a fun watch.
Technical Specifications:
Starring: Michael Gross, Jamie Kennedy, Tanya van Graan
Directed by: Don Michael Paul
Written by: John Whepley
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 AVC
Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, French, Spanish DTS 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Studio: Universal
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 98 minutes
Blu-Ray Release Date: May 1st, 2018
Recommendation: Fun Watch