Tremors | Anatomy of a Franchise #5

In today's franchise overview we look at the 1990 classic monster film Tremors and the sequels that spawned from that.
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[@InPraiseofShadows]

Hey everybody, thanks for watching the new video, I hope you are all safe and in good health during everything that has been going on. If you haven't seen any of these before, the entire series is currently streaming on Netflix US and could provide some good entertainment for those who are staying inside for the foreseeable future. Thanks, and I hope you all stay well and have a good upcoming weekend.

[@IrishMorgenstern]

I just watched the first one last night again with the intent to binge! Perfect timing! Thanks!

[@fangofsilver5537]

38:07 Side note. The mattress wasn´t even Burt´s idea! It was, what´s her name, who came up with that one. (watched it this week😋)

[@MrJamesedd]

Asheville fan here! Hope your safe and well during these crazy times, absolutely been loving this channel last couple months, tremors was an all time favorite as a kid glad to hear your take on it!

[@VideosJacked]

My friend the entire series is also on KZbin. Here's the playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLjmUAAK3guQ8R_JfxbybnLhc-e4PYMOos

[@nevaehsandoval6555]

I needed this! But didn’t see you posted it till a day later I hate when KZbin doesn’t notify me! Anyway thanks for the vid I love them!

[@cliffridenour6675]

"Tremors is a perfect monster movie" Alright everyone, pack it up, that's a wrap. Everything that's needed to be said has been said.

[@orcakinggaming9388]

Don't forget about the lake placid and anaconda franchise

[@VeriStrawberi]

Tremors 1 is a Classic. The rest? Bleh

[@herpydepth1204]

We were given critical, need-to-know information

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@orcakinggaming9388 Anaconda would be perfect without JLo soiling a good monster movie.

[@thecoldglassofwatershow]

@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy but our anaconda don’t want none, unless it’s got buns hun

[@AspelShuyin]

Damn, I would love to play a roleplaying game set in a graboid apocalypse.

[@comradeaustin1706]

There were a few beta games wrapped around the concept

[@nicholaswallen8147]

Gurps. 4th edition hands down. Thought of using the town and worms in several settings of mine even if players never went there.

[@KJOokami]

Honestly, though. As popular as sci-fi horror games have been over the past decade, I'm legitimately shocked that no one has ever thought to make an Alien Isolation style horror game set in the Tremors universe. Where you're trapped in some area with graboids, shriekers, assblasters, etc. and your only option is to run, hide, and occasionally use a show of force to scare them off for a short time as you fight to survive. Hell, they've even done very similar segments in the Resident Evil remakes where you're forced to run away from Mr. X and Nemesis. I think that sort of gameplay would work *perfectly* for a Tremors game. Alas, if they haven't picked it up at this point, I'm doubtful they'll ever do so.

[@herpydepth1204]

I think a Forest-style survival game would be pretty cool too

[@cyan967]

@@herpydepth1204 that would be pretty cool, starting completely unaware of just how much danger you're really in, and as you progress in the game you have to take the survival skills you've learned to stand against the graboids survive and get out alive. I would play that sandbox survival horror built around tremors for sure hell I'd add it to the twitch stream schedule to play with friends for a few hours at least once or twice a week

[@coffeeelk6364]

I was never a fan of how it went from a survival like perspective to just endlessly gunning down hordes of worms with reckless abandon.

[@zubbworks]

I mean yeah, but when people understand the "unknown horror" they tend to slaughter it and\or make as much money as they can off of it. IDK you couldn't just make the same Tremors movie the same way over and over. I do like how they changed it up a little bit with every movie. But five and six are definitely not about the monster anymore, but about Burt. It's a horror movie, but it's a character driven movie is what it is.

[@Gradyolson]

Couldn't agree more, It was a privilege to introduce them to some of my Dnd players by having them come across an isolated pocket of Graboids deep in the Underdark. They ended up using their young dragon ally to trick one into bursting from the ground then used fireball down its throat. Little did my players know however that the 5 remaining outside the 3 they killed backed off due to the threat. When the party had to travel back through that area, later on, we almost had 3 player deaths and they lost all but one of their important NPC's they were supposed to return with.

[@clockworks360]

@@Gradyolson that shit sounds fun!

[@cyan967]

pretty much the only good films are the 1st 4th and last place as honorable mention is the 3rd, and the original series that sadly got cancelled everything else is like a horrid fever dream we wish had never existed, and it's a shame the new series they tried doing got dropped because it clearly showed genuine potential to reignite the fire that burned in the 1st and 4th films

[@Questionable_Content]

I've loved Tremors since I first watched it when I was a child. Classic monster movie for me

[@vinusundar8495]

Same here.

[@OctoberLotus]

Same. I remember being 5 and borrowing it from my across the hall neighbor.

[@erithe9177]

I remember my dad and uncle introducing me to the first and second movie when I was a kid. Great times

[@NeroCM]

14:55 I would argue that the initial montage of killing them is made exactly to make you feel like there's no threat. Then as you think you found your footing and start to relax, they flip the scipt on you and suddenly the threat is completely different. You compared the movie to Aliens, and it's a very valid comparison on this point as well. In Aliens, instead of a crew of workers without military training, they go to the planet with a full team of marines. If they had done a single alien like in the first one, it would have died in five minutes. In Aliens they used numbers to make up for it, in Tremors 2 they changed the monster.

[@MrStath1986]

I think that's the point Zane makes but doesn't specifically word it as such; that it's a little disappointing these creatures that were super difficult to kill previously are now reduced to the point of farce, but that it's then highly satisfying to have the Shriekers introduced as they help flip the script and make the finale work as well as it does.

[@neonsmoviereviews7969]

Stranger Things basically tried doing the same thing but failed. Aliens and Tremors both change things for the audience, either by changing the situation or type of enemy. Stranger Things just weakened the same monster and made more of them.

[@burnttoastburt1467]

@@neonsmoviereviews7969 i disagree that it failed because it was made apparent that they werent fully matured. On top of that they had to make way for the bigger threat of the mind flayer. Not to mention the demodogs have a much higher body count wiping out nearly the entire staff of the lab and we are shown that guns still arent super effective taking multiple rifle shots or a shotgun blast at point range to deal with.

[@neonsmoviereviews7969]

@@burnttoastburt1467 yet somehow a teenager with a baseball bat is highly effective?

[@burnttoastburt1467]

@@neonsmoviereviews7969 I will give there is a little dissonance there. They seem to be able to shrug off bullets, but the bat at least knocks them back/stuns them. But I mean they beat down the og demogorgon with a bat too. Haha. Idk you might feel different on a rewatch the demodogs have a pretty high body count. They take out everyone in the lab, and the heavily armed strike team sent in after them beforehand. But yeah theres def plot armor around the younger characters for sure Ill give you that.

[@cooperg4232]

"what if the graboids start another dust bowl" the weirdest sentence that makes so much sense

[@jigglyanderson6105]

"Tremors is a perfect monster movie" Hell yeah, in this house we stan Tremors.

[@Duragizer8775]

I dunno, I'd love a _King of the Hill_ spinoff focused on Dale.

[@faceless2302]

Me too not gonna lie

[@funkyweapon1981]

SHA SHAAAAAA!

[@rashadpreston7389]

That would be cool, but one about boomhower and him being a Texas ranger would be more interesting.

[@knivesmcdougal6496]

Rusty Shackleford

[@rashadpreston7389]

@@knivesmcdougal6496 a show about the actual rusty Shackleford

[@maosensei6889]

I was never more annoyed with an opinion i agree. I love this franchise even if is considered bad.

[@DrDespicable]

It was great, until it turned into a franchise - and I feel it's safe to say that a series doesn't become a franchise until you get to the 4th movie. I loved the first one, saw it in the cinema! Several times!

[@VSPhotfries]

Seconded. I also feel exactly this way about the Hellraiser franchise. Even the absolute trash is fun, er, except a Hellworld and the reboot maybe.

[@vijaz5559]

sadly, no one, from hollywood, or any professionals with years of experience, will listen to a youtube video

[@Farons8]

I’ve been watching Tremors consistently since I was 4 years old. A franchise I simply adore, minus 5 and 6. A video like this absolutely fuels me. Good job, sir.

[@DTBluesreviews]

The reason this series has stagnated and lost its suspense elements is because of lack luster writing and the implementation of cg for the graboids, the cg makes it so much easier to overload the movies with them that all suspense and awe is lost

[@AmityFeatures]

I’d say Blumhouse hires a good writer, condenses the season 1 outline for the Kevin Bacon series into an hour and 45 or so screenplay, get Bacon back on board, give them $15 million, making them take a more minimalistic approach.. bam. Tremors back on the big screen treated with care and attention.

[@filthycasual8187]

They need to use the O.G. Graboid design though. Not the one they were going to give us in that show.

[@renatocorvaro6924]

I'd go see that movie. When I'm allowed to go to a theatre again.

[@tylertheguy3160]

I can't quite put my finger on why, but Tremors 2 is my favorite of the series.

[@zan31669]

They use to air the second movie allot more on networks tv you might of just seen it first or more times the the original movie

[@jamesesparza6893]

i also enjoy the second one more but I like both Tremors movies because in my mind there are only two movies. perfectly balanced as all things should be.

[@jttank5578]

Yeah it is a great movie!

[@zubbworks]

One is my favorite, two is just 1.5 so...real nice, then I do like 4.

[@comradeaustin1706]

I know for some reason it's my fav

[@ashemountain]

I remember being excited for the return of Tremors after 11 years and then seeing Jamie Kennedy and seeing the trailer and just...rapidly losing all interest. Same for 6. Burt is great but like, man, bringing in new characters to focus on seems the better idea. We also had the same idea about El Blanco just continuing to grow. That would've been a brilliant idea.

[@InPraiseofShadows]

Oh yeah I would love to see them dealing with an absolute massive graboid, I think that would switch things up in a really fun way.

[@JoshuaWilkesR]

So El Blanco is still alive? They didn't show him in the last movie

[@InPraiseofShadows]

They just sort of stop mentioning him, he’s in the show and in part 3 but starting in 5 they never reference him again so it’s a little up in the air if he’s still alive or not.

[@joy5976]

I just saw an article about tremors 7 and thank god jamie Kennedy isn’t in it, not sure how I like Burt’s new look but I’m giving it a chance lol

[@josephacevedo2937]

Perfect Netflix binge during the Stay At Home order.

[@EverDownward]

>mentions Ernest Hey, so, does that mean we're gonna get an hour long anatomy on Jim Varney's greatest creation?

[@antiseabearcircle3360]

Tremors 2 is my favorite of the series. The tv show is underrated and deserved more seasons.

[@josesosa3337]

I heard the show was aired out of order for some reason.

[@antiseabearcircle3360]

@@josesosa3337 Yep. Apparently Sci-Fi didn't like some of the episodes, so they changed the order to put those ones last. They even had to film a new opening for one of the episodes because it didn't make sense in the order it was shown in.

[@frogzx]

Man, after you mentioning Phantasm I would really love to see one of these videos covering the franchise. Still one of my favorite horror movie series.

[@InPraiseofShadows]

Oh I’m absolutely doing that one, I love Phantasm so much, a little mad at myself for not doing it last year because it was the anniversary of it coming out, but for sure that one is near the top of my list.

[@MikePuorro]

Tremors has a special place in my childhood memories. I recorded the movie off of television, onto VHS pausing out the commercials. It was edited for language back then and 'll never forget when they kill the first graboid and Kevin Bacon says, "Fooooooled you!" LOL

[@Farons8]

I’ll never pass up a chance to sing Tremors 2’s praises. It’s a joy to hear someone else talk about it for once lol

[@LWolf12]

Not sure I'd call it praise, he did imply the movie was racist, well he kind of said that about the franchise as a whole.

[@filthycasual8187]

A couple of points. 1.) Shriekers. Not "Screechers." 2.) Hiram was from Philadelphia, not Carson City.

[@jamesesparza6893]

and both of those ostriches are dudes which is why they dont make baby birds.

[@dillonfisher7615]

Also, the graboid tongue in the thumbnail is upside down. Not sure if it was intentional or not... But it was the first thing I noticed when scrolling through my feed. Lol

[@ericad528]

None of that matters

[@dillonfisher7615]

@@ericad528 I mean when making. Retrospective on a subject, you kind of want to have the information you are providing to be accurate. It's just a video about a monster movie series... so it isn't THAT important, but we're just attempting to help.

[@filthycasual8187]

@@ericad528 You really took time out of your day to post this? Don't you have anything better to do? And yes, it DOES matter. If the guy can't even get fictional facts right, how can his review be taken seriously?

[@Klikoderat]

Bud, I am laughing WITH Ricky. True working class hero.

[@XSlimSxadyX]

Randy marsh

[@thepaleone]

But.. Fred wasn't buried up to his neck, his body got eaten by a graboid.

[@riverpaw3234]

Yeah

[@wickedthemadhatter9713]

He didnt watch the movies and pay attention

[@sarat6488]

"I personally down on a deep, primal level strongly dislike Jamie Kennedy. And this might not be fair... " Nah that's completely fair- Jamie Kennedy is extremely unlikable and makes anything he's in a hard-pass for me

[@jttank5578]

Nah it's not, he is in the best movies of all time which is Scream.

[@jttank5578]

@@malaizze I wonder what people say behind your back with a face like yours

[@jamstonjulian6947]

@@jttank5578 Hi Jamie

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I mean, he's not like an Adam Sandler or Rob Schnieder. He's not that grating. He's just meh. He's the utterly forgettable comedic 90's actor - lacking the eccentricity of Paulie Shore, the bizarre quality of Tom Green, or the good-nature'd, childlike charm of David Arquette. Don't get me wrong, with his residuals alone I probably wouldn't have to work another day in my life so I'd trade places in a heartbeat. Doesn't mean I'd like myself, though.

[@latenight1218]

I only like him in Scream.

[@haileygrey5047]

The original floor is lava challenge. When I was a kid I used to pretend that if I touched the floor they'd get me lol. Love these movies.

[@Qadupae]

The first Tremors movie is one of my guilty pleasure movies XD

[@marleigh5606]

I LOVED these movies when I was little. This was surprisingly nostalgic for me

[@johnnyrico6202]

Tremors Reborn: Urban Renewal. The graboids move into the abandoned parts of Detroit. It's up to a land developer and a community center to defeat it and save thier homes. Or an animated series.

[@CeeJayThe13th]

I'd watch that. The only problem is that really low budget movies in urban settings tend to feel really empty due to not being able to afford the ridiculous amount of extras that you'd really need to make an urban setting feel properly alive. For an example, think of Sharknado (which seems like a very appropriate comparison). It seems like the only people in whatever large city they're in (I can't remember which one it is) is the central cast and occasionally 2-5 extras as shark fodder (chum?). It makes sense the longer the disaster goes on but it makes the movie feel so empty and lifeless. I would just hate to see that happen to yet another cool premise for a campy B-horror movie.

[@IzzySarru]

How would that work without them evolving to screechers though? The graboids can't move through asphalt or concrete. Basically any building or street would be safe.

[@Razorgeist]

Thats actually a pretty good idea.

[@bloomindoom]

Tremors 1 is one of favorite movies of all time. Thanks for making this

[@thechugdude]

"I found the ass end!"

[@vashxux]

Growing up watching these with my dad has always been a fond memory. I wish he was still around to watch the newer ones with me

[@babyyoshi3099]

Glad to know I am not the only one who despised Jamie Kennedy's character.

[@jmarra07]

Pretty sure no one ever liked him in anything he's ever been in

[@odiwalker3973]

I remember the first time I really watched this movie (so far I only watched as a child). I couldn't go 10 to 15m without pausing in awe of how much of a perfect monster movie this is

[@narggles13]

As someone who works in vet med, while 17 years is a little wonky it’s absolutely not unheard to have a parasite just Chilling in an animals body for years on end and then things getting Very Bad Very Quickly when it reaches its reproductive phase. Remember to get your pets tested for heart worm, whip worms and hookworms yearly or keep them on preventatives if it’s recommended for where you live, folks! I’ve been binging your franchise series while working overnights at the clinic and I really do love it!

[@MorganaRoxton]

This made me wanna go watch tremors again! I love the first few movies and the tv show!

[@cinemaskull9886]

It’s about time someone talked about these movies and how great they are

[@cinemaskull9886]

@Allan Tidgwell I’m talking more about a film analysis not review

[@TheEldritchGoth]

Fallout: Tremors I’d be down

[@dboot8886]

Polarity Reversed I mean New Vegas is in Nevada. Wouldn't be surprised if someone had already made a mod for it.

[@globehead735]

You’re a genius

[@cloverismydog7820]

That’s basically the blood worms just more deadly

[@fortkavanagh]

For me I think the last straw was Tremors 6, the developers were SERIOUSLY scraping the bottom of creativity there.

[@vive_faux6909]

It was so boring and bad

[@fortkavanagh]

indeed, number 6 was indeed boring

[@ximkai8794]

Two words: Ass blasters

[@badguyrob]

Walter definitely played more of a part than "making the grabloids feel like a legitimate threat." He is a legend and his death actually hurt viewers. At least for me.

[@chrishowell6469]

Right? It feels quite disrespectful to his character to disregard his death as just "Canon fodder to scare white people". Walter was their friend. A valued member of their small community. His death hurt them and like every other death, added to the stakes of the film. Not because of his colour, but because he was part one of them. Someone trying to survive.

[@badguyrob]

@@chrishowell6469 100%! Not everything is about race

[@frankkennedy6388]

​@@badguyrobright.

[@biscutbuu69]

I'm actually making my way through The Dark Tower novels and I'm about to start the 4th one. It is literally one of King's best works, shame we won't get a film/series adaptation that is properly done.

[@AmericanGadfly]

I thought those books sucked and were just cheap knockoffs of other stuff. Wolves of Calla is just the magnificent 7, Roland is just Clint Eastwood and this sort of thing happens through the whole series.

[@joshjames582]

Just a little forewarning - the series starts a lot stronger than it finishes. If you're like me, you'll notice that about most of King's stories. He's a really, really good idea guy but never had a really solid ending in place for anything.

[@sambhavsingh7415]

@@joshjames582 if you know his writing process. It would make so much sense why he sucks in writing endings. He never decides a central general ending for a story or even a proper structure of events. He just writes from one page to another.

[@DigitalBath742]

I just introduced my 10 year old daughter to this movie 4 days ago. She loved it.

[@InPraiseofShadows]

Oh I'm really glad to hear that! It is a great gateway horror movie, that and The Mummy are both really good ones for kids from that time, I remember both playing on TV a lot when I was a kid.

[@mattkemerait]

"I don't know you! That's my purse!"

[@jmarra07]

"The milk is about to go bad...........now."

[@MikuSoda]

Yeap, this is still the most entertaining channel that I have found on KZbin so far

[@justsomenuts]

I've loved the first movie since I used to watch it as a kid when it'd air on TV, though I was only 6 when it came out originally. Even watched it recently and damn does it hold up perfectly. Thanks for making this video because I'd written off the series after 3 and I'm pretty excited to check out 4 now. But all the others after don't really interest me. I like when movies can make their monsters more animal like than just monsters and all the different forms, to me, are just blegh. That yet-to-be released series is doing the right thing, imo, by dropping anything after the first movie. But after you mentioned video games, I sooooo want a Tremors based game now that's focused on terrain navigation and occasional skirmishes, I'd hate it to be just like the mid-late series Resident Evil games that are just gory shoot em ups.

[@hwanseungcha8007]

The Tremors movies have been on my "to-watch" list for years and perhaps its finally time I give them a try.

[@riverpaw3234]

All of them are on Netflix

[@joeystracener9804]

Nailed the "beard will be a gag and then things will go back to normal" prediction for tremors 7! Well done with that and indeed the whole video!

[@troodon1096]

Um, "early"? Walter wasn't killed early in the first movie; he was literally the last character to die in it (if you don't count the graboids as characters).

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I do, the grabbies are easily some of the most charismatic movie monsters to ever grace my grandparent's shitty analog television set late on a Thursday back in the early 2000's.

[@latenight1218]

No he's not, the last kill in the first movie is Nestor when the graboid flips his trailer and he falls off the roof.

[@djhenyo]

The SJW who made this video is more than willing to make up shit up in order to virtue signal.

[@riverpaw3234]

Uh oh we've pulled out political terms

[@MegaCrocosaurus92]

Actually, Nester was the last to die!

[@THEAnimeHERO]

You have good ideas for possible storylines. I'm surprised that there hasn't been an animated series with a toyline by Kenner.

[@cyanyde4950]

I would by every figure from that toy line idc if I'm near 30 or not Tremors good or bad forever holds a place in my heart like the Alien franchise does

[@ribbon_dye]

Loved the Tremors series up until 5. Jamie Kennedy and his character felt like a charisma blackhole. There was absolutely nothing likeable about him from start to finish, and killed my enthusiasm for the series hard after that. Which is a shame cause I was looking forward to seeing the movies continue until I Forced myself to watch 5.

[@cyanyde4950]

the level of misogynistic his character had kind of made me wish he was eaten pretty quickly, at least despite his shit personality it would give burt gummer more reason to be so aggressive against them vs how in the past films he actually respected the graboids, I mean Burt feared them but still respected them. Having done something like that would have made for a better pace and reasoning along the lines of " you killed my family yes he was a dick but family so now I'm taking out yours."

[@christomanci]

7 was pretty good! Id give it a try. And its jamie kennedy free!

[@kokoloko8423]

Another quality upload, so glad I discovered your channel, or rediscovered it I should say. Once watched Tremors 4 on TV as a child and thought of it as surprisingly decent, glad to see my distant memories validated haha.

[@AislingDinn]

I didn't walk on the beach near my house for an entire summer after I saw the first movie.

[@tituslafrombois1164]

Amazing work as always! Just earlier I was thinking "Why hasn't someone online talked for nearly an hour about the Tremors franchise?" And you just gave me everything I could possibly want from it.

[@velvetsun2949]

You aint lying. They ALWAYS show mexico with that grimey yellow filter, like 🤦‍♀️

[@HomeNuke]

Syfy really liked to mix their airing up back in the day. They did the same thing with a show called terrain nova, which was mostly pretty good tbh.

[@moondog548]

"Plastic is not an Oxygen barrier!" In all my life that is one lesson that I will never forget.

[@bradcollins1626]

this chick in high school...we called her grabboydd

[@DustyLamp]

I dunno man, I don't really pay attention to the colour of the actors getting eaten by giant cgi worms. It is lame that there weren't more Mexicans in Mexico though.

[@LWolf12]

The reason there weren't many Mexicans in Tremors 2, was because, one it was set in an oil field, and two it was shutdown because of the Graboid attacks. They weren't in a town setting or in an area that got people visiting.

[@trex23d]

The original Tremors is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm so glad you covered this series.

[@jss302]

I grew up watching this movie every Christmas at my grandma's house lol it's special to me bc of that

[@adamgatt25]

Great Video mate, Love part 1 & 2. Just gotta say though I'd have to disagree on the racism on the first 2 films (not gonna get into the others as I dont care for them lol) The first movie almost all deaths are white people, Edgar, Old Fred, The Dr and his Wife, Nester, and the 2 Workers (maybe one of them was ethnic) and Chang was the only non white to die. As for the 2nd Movie you say there is only 3 Mexicans and they all die, given the core cast is only 4 people they were obviously the ones that are gonna die, the only character that could of been Mexican and survived was the Female lead. So all in all I wouldn't call any of that racism. One more point, I feel maybe you were saying something about sexism in the early movies (if not disregard this ;) ) The first movie Heather you could almost say is the strongest character in the movie as she even saves Burt from been Eaten, and Ronda is clearly the Smartest in the movie and comes up with most the good ideas that saves most the cast. As for the 2nd Movie, The Female Lead is also the Smartest character in the movie again, and as there is no real Macho stuff in the 2nd movie I'd say she is just as strong as the rest of the cast. Again just putting in my 2 cents as I've watched these movies since the early 90s. Also Definitely glad Jamie Kennedy is out of the 7th film, here's hoping they can get it right. Great Video Again mate :)

[@alnilam8933]

Was going to say this, the "racism" parts of this were really reaching.

[@jasunkarner3916]

Yeah, let's shoehorn our woke bullshit into what's supposed to be a fun, semi-mindless throwback to B-movies. He got it right when he said: "It's schlocky action that you're not supposed to think about that hard". But making everything about this stuff is how you get your cred and self-importance these days, I suppose. While his content is generally good, this is pretty is pretty common for him, and it's always distracting, annoying, and forced.

[@scorch2155]

Not to mention the second movie was set in Mexico on a Mexican oil company's fields so the vast majority of people present on site who work there will be Hispanic and thus the majority to die.

[@alejandrovasquez8527]

Y'all seem to be missing the point that the minority characters count for a small percentage of the cast, so each death shrinks the percentage even further. Mr. Chang gets one of several deaths in the first movie, but he and Miguel are the movie's only nonwhite folks.

[@dayman4839]

So glad someone else was thinking this. This guy's videos are pretty good, but he is overtly sensitive when it comes to race.

[@lonecycle4849]

As if your channel wasn't already excellent, you drop this. Great work, man. Keep it up!

[@InPraiseofShadows]

Thanks!

[@wolfishxwillow]

This is probably my fourth or fifth time watching this video. It just makes me really happy!

[@MrBooone]

As a Canadian, fucking god bless your love for Trailer Park Boys.

[@CLY994]

Love this series of videos! Made me watch hellraiser and I was pleasantly surprised. Keep up the good work!

[@MillenniumStoryteller]

The franchise has its ups and downs but I can't bring myself to say that any of the movies are bad. Yes 5 and 6 aren't the best. Even though I say 6 is a step above 5. But I love them to pieces and I look forward to 7.

[@jamesesparza6893]

holy crap LOL I love Tremors 1 and 2 but yes, there are terrible tremors movies, specifically the ones with Jamie Kennedy.

[@AlastorTheNPDemon]

I love this series! It makes me feel like a kid again. These movies were my life!

[@cornedbred7303]

I found this movie with my dad. We had Trashmovie evenings. Now, we got all the movies and a plush Graboid. These movies, really proved us wrong.

[@ghostface6901]

"Reality is thrown out the window" Said about the franchise of giant killer worms 😂

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

I mean, the giant worms are just larger Bobbit worms

[@jamstonjulian6947]

It's not the craziest concept

[@AmericanGadfly]

Really doesnt feel far fetched to me on a planet that currently has whales and at one time had dinosaurs. 🤷‍♂️

[@logan4761]

My heart longs for that new tremors TV show,

[@anthonymisiano256]

In Praise of Shadows, I have to tell you though I doubt you'll see this, recently discovering your channel has been a highlight of my recent months. The quality of your content is undeniable and the attention to detail is exemplary. Thank you for doing such good work time and time again. Your over 3 hour long, two part essay on the Golden Age of Horror Comics should be required viewing for any fan or working professional of/in the medium, be it comic book or film/television.

[@InPraiseofShadows]

Thank you so much, it meant a lot to me to read that. I genuinely really appreciate it and am really glad that the videos have made you happy.

[@TwistedNsanity]

Forgot how much I loved this series. Def going to check out part 4 and the show

[@michaelbonet3783]

I agree with and share your assessment and dislike of jamie kennedy, he is an extremely unlikable, stupid, and obnoxious character that weighs the franchise down tremendously while not bringing anything new to it. I was always hoping that they would have brought Grady from the second movie in to the franchise more, he was likeable and a pleasant addition to the characters. As for your comments on racism in the franchise, I completely disagree with that. The Tremors franchise has never been racist. That is a shallow and current year label to stick on any film if a character that isn't white dies. I hear a lot of reviewers use that argument because it is so easy to make and virtue signal. In every Tremors film, be they weak or strong, bad or good, characters die because of the story. You can say that the scripts were weak and formulaic, you can ever say that they were just plain "phoned in". Racism is a very strong allegation to make, even if it is thrown around so lightly now a days, it is totally off base when it comes to the Tremors Franchise.

[@tyler58701]

I thought that the 4th movie Chang’s where survivors due to continuity with the Chang’s being alive in the future and that they stayed because they where cheap.

[@FatBatCat]

“Can you fly, you sucker? Can you fly?!” Best part.

[@madmachanicest9955]

one of the coolest things is I ever learned is that they actually built a building designed to collapse and be put back up over and over for Tremors 1.which as a handyman upset with engineering I think is awesome.

[@an8strengthkobold360]

Cool

[@AikuraShardless]

The first two films had such an impact on me growing up - in my mind, they were up there near monster film franchises with far more mainstream recognition such as Alien and Predator. I revisit them now and, while I obviously view them a bit differently, I still find them a ton of fun. After three, which I really didn't like even as a kid, I was never interested in another Tremors film. However after watching your anatomy video, I might just give four a go - We'll see. :)

[@Badbufon]

sadly this just reminded me of the terminator franchise and how they could never get past terminator 2 , well, even worse, star wars is stuck in blowing the death star over and over again... and those people earn millions... incredible.

[@TheKyrix82]

Star Wars kept blowing up the Death Star because fans ONLY like the original trilogy

[@sharukadog5875]

Some of the most enjoyable movies I ever had the pleasure of seeing.

[@sarahgodin8998]

I think with your knowledge and love for the series you ought to be a consultant for Tremors 7. This was an amazing breakdown of my favorite monster movie, thank you for putting in so much time and effort and really diving deep into what makes these creatures and characters so great 😄

[@ivankarol226]

Wait, do you think that there are no white mexican people?

[@honestj3rk187]

I think he doesn't realize that there are white mexicans like many people who don't even know that. I have cousins that are white with blonde hair and blue eyes and they come from Mexico.

[@ThatGuy-a48]

Yeah it's like people forget Mexico was colonized by SPAIN

[@justrenderin1279]

I love Tremors as a series. Sure it gets goofy down the road but it's still really good even now. I'm super happy seeing this video pop up.

[@arturqueiroz2861]

OMGGGG!! I LOVE THIS MOVIE! I'm so happy for this video!

[@elgordo9525]

I remember watching this movie all the time as a kid. I appreciate your analysis.

[@brittanyjsheets5115]

can you do anatomy of the leprechaun franchise? love your videos!

[@ryank8261]

You state Chang’s character exists to die so we fear more for the white characters even though the white town drunk, the white farmer, the two white construction workers, and the white couple who were building a house all died before him.

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

His virtue signaling really ruined this video

[@MannyJazzcats]

The first Tremors film is so well made.

[@vangoghho9542]

This is the content I need to get through quarantine ❤ thank you

[@hopelessedgelord]

I think the whole race point is way to over blown

[@thomasjcarwile9143]

Some of the most redneck folks I know aren’t even white lol

[@WisteriaDrake]

Seems like I'm the only one here who loves almost all of the Tremors movies except 4, since I was never really into the old western vibe. I love Jamie Kennedy in 5 and 6, with 5 being probably my favorite movie. I love Burt Gummer, and I compare Tremors to Evil Dead, which started out as pure horror, and then proceeded into horror comedy and finally action comedy, with the Deadites in Ash vs Evil Dead being largely minor inconveniences for Ash, much like how the Graboids are for Burt.

[@deathboyinc]

Just recently saw Tremors for the first time after never even knowing it existed and its a pretty great movie. I definitely went into it thinking it was gonna be bad but nope amazing. Also the scientist girl is soooo damn cute in this movie.

[@wolfishxwillow]

I just rewatched the first movie last weekend so I was very excited when I saw this pop up yesterday! Now I've finally got the chance to watch it. :D

[@wildpiercy1141]

Love it when Tremors gets attention. Big part of my childhood. And this is a really good breakdown of the series (and of the 6th movie so I can know what happens in it without having to use that much of my single human life to watch it). But-uh, "people of color characters"?

[@frankkennedy6388]

Yeah, it was strange he said that the "people of color characters" have to be killed to make the white people scared? It doesn't really matter what race you are, if you saw a giant monster worm eat someone, you'd be scared.

[@madkirk7431]

If there is ever some kind of SCP franchise or something, you should cover it.

[@Barbayat79]

So happy to find someone who also really likes the 4th movie :D

[@BigBossSquirtle]

Tremors 4 is a great film. Very underrated and the second best in the series imo. Wish it got more recognition. 5 was so bad it pretty much killed my anticipation for the franchise. Only saw a few minutes of the 6 intro before shutting it off. And didn't even bother with 7. So disappointed the Kevin Bacon series didn't get picked up.

[@Agorante]

I've waited years for a venue to emerge where I could post this comment. The original movie was a masterpiece in every way. Very damn funny. But all of the sequels were lackadaisical at best - barely watchable. Why? Because Hollywood got it all wrong when they tried to build on the success of the original film. Hollywood has a long and storied history of movie series. For example - see the Crosby/Hope "Road" canon. The great mistake the movie moguls made with "Tremors" was to imagine that the critical element in the story was the big underground worms. It wasn't. It was the two lead characters. What they should have done is make a sequel(s) about the adventures of these two guys who kept running into weird monsters. What they did was miss the boat - badly. It would have been as if after "The Road to Zanzibar" (the first Road picture) they had made The Flight to Zanzibar and the Passage to Zanzibar but with other actors like Monty Woolley or Clark Gable. The appeal of the picture was the characters not the special effects.

[@jmarra07]

You could have left this comment on RLM's Re-View of the Tremors movies..? I think it's a way better recap than this is

[@Agorante]

@@jmarra07 Who is RLM?

[@jmarra07]

@@Agorante Red Letter Media. They have a few really popular YT shows. Great channel

[@mgkiryuu]

Fantastic review. I personally love all the movies and show. While the quality varies from film to film....at least there is quality there. It's not like the Puppet Master Series that is seriously just on death's door and somehow freaking keeps getting more and more movies done of it. If the series really wants a shot in the arm, they just need to get Bacon or Ward to come back. That is the shot in the arm the franchise will need if it is to continue.

[@ar.zpoint5700]

The lack of a budget is exactly what destroyed the Hellraiser franchise too. Studios need to give more worth to horror films man

[@platapusdemon]

I feel like my brain has been hacked. With no prompt and no related words, I get suggestions for stuff about my favorite movies/ artists from over a decade ago. Guess we should just be happy, rather than be concerned that these vids about our favorite stuff (that we haven't looked up in years), are popping up all over the place? 😅 Terror aside, Tremors is awesome, and this was a good vidya.🖤