Reboot Tremors!
It’s hard to find films like the original TREMORS anymore. During the ancient times before internet connections and unjustified movie hype, this little film quietly made it’s way to theaters for four weeks without much notice. It took home about $16.7 million before burrowing underground, where it lay and wait for a chance on home video. Today, I don’t know one single person that hasn’t seen this film. Considered a staple of many a childhood, TREMORS seems to have found it’s way into every living room in the world over the last twenty years.
We’ve had a new Leatherface and Michael Myers pop up in the last few years. Freddy Krueger is chomping at the bit to show us his new makeover. Aliens and Predators don’t want to go away no matter how many mediocre films they star in. Everything (somewhat) old is new again. So why not bring back the Graboids? It’s been a while since we had a good monster movie. Even longer since we had a good giant man-eating worm movie. Mix some wonders of CGI in with the old-school props and we have ourselves the ingredients for a fun film. Some gore, some scares, some laughs, and just to fit in with the trend of horror remakes lately, some boobs. Some really big boobs.
There are already two sequels and a prequel within the franchise, with talk of another being rumoured for a year or so. The television show spin-off lasted 13 episodes. They seem to be digging themselves a hole (pun intended, bitches) with the quality of these direct to DVD entries. Why not start from scratch? Reboot it, remake it, re-imagine it, I could care less. Just give me some more worms damn you! Although the film is appreciated in the genre it’s not like it has a Voorhees-type following. Very few are going to cry foul if you decide to re-cast the Kevin Bacon role. Except maybe Kevin Bacon.
Maybe it’s the booze talking but I fucking love giant monster movies. A new TREMORS with a modest budget and some fresh scribes working the story may just be what I need to sober me up. Stop with the SAW movies and give me giant burrowing worms that shoot up from within the desert sands and tear you to pieces with their enormous claw-like lips. Jigsaw ain’t got shit on that, dead or alive.