Tremors

You’ve Got Graboids: The First Trailer for Tremors 5: Bloodlines

Oh yay, yay, yay. Judging from this trailer, Tremors 5 is exactly what we want from this franchise. Which, let’s be honest, is mostly Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his sass. Tremors — all four other movies and the TV show — basically revolves around surviving and eliminating (through much explosions) infestations of giant worms…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta Jul 29

New Missile Study Reveals A Terrible Setback In Fight Against Graboids

If you think your government can protect you from underground monsters, you’re wrong. And we’ve got the soil analysis to prove it. A new study shows that the faster a missile goes, the less well it penetrates the ground. In other words, it looks as though the god-damn underground monsters are able to move through…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Apr 10

Tremors 5 Is Happening, And This Time It’s Set In South Africa

Great news, graboids fans, Tremors is making a new movie! Tremors 5 will star franchise veteran Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) but it’s got a new location: South Africa. According to Bloody Disgusting, Tremors 5 will include the classic graboids and the assblasters along with a brand new creature. “The theatrical release of the original Tremors…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 17

The Real-Life Animal Inspirations Behind Movie Monsters

Special effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. joined us today to talk about their upcoming movie Harbinger Down. We got the story behind the creatures they created for Tremors, Starship Troopers, and Alien 3 — and they told us about the real-world inspirations for their movie monsters. Top image: On the left, one…

io9 Ria Misra Jun 30

30 Cult Movies That Absolutely Everybody Must See

A great cult movie is like a weird underground discovery, that feels so strange and wonderful, you suspect that you’re the first person ever to appreciate it properly. But certain cult films have acquired fame and influence to rival any blockbuster, and have become part of our shared vocabulary. Here are 30 essential cult movies…

io9 Jason Shankel, Emily Stamm and Jason Krell Mar 7

9 Movies You Should Be Ashamed To Be Afraid Of

Some horror movies work your nerves and leave you frightened, but at least you feel justified in your fear. Other movies — well, let’s just say you should feel embarrassed that they scare you. And here they are. Prepare to be ashamed! 9. Jaws (1975) You know you’re not going to get eaten by a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 4

DVD Box Sets That Make Thrilling Holiday Gifts

When you really want to show people you care about them, the best present is one that they can spend hours exploring. And nothing sucks people in quite like a really feature-heavy DVD or Blu-ray box set, full of special features, alternate versions and commentary tracks. There’s an amazing wealth of science fiction and fantasy…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 16

An educational film on graboids, a.k.a. the bane of Kevin Bacon

Frank Robnik has made Monstrous Wildlife, an entertaining educational short about the physiology and dangers of graboids (i.e., the worm-like beasts of the Tremors franchise). Stay on the asphalt, kids! [Frank Robnik via Brundlefly on Metafilter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 8

Save Kevin Bacon And Michael Gross From The Pixelated Tremors!

It’s Tremerz, the video game! Hop, dance and jump your way through the desert. Just don’t let the Graboids kill Burt Gummer or his red-headed wife Reba. All you need is “a few household chemicals in the proper proportions.” [Newgrounds]

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 6

Earthquake Spotting Comes to Twitter, Courtesy of USGS

San Andreas fault fans, there’s a new TED in town. The United States Geological Survey has developed the Twitter Earthquake Detection project, in an attempt to improve its handling of those natural disasters when they hit across the U.S. The USGSted project relies firstly on an application programming interface that collates tweets with earthquake-related keywords.…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jan 8

The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy

The same things that terrify us can also make us die laughing, and as long as there’s been horror, there’s been silly horror-comedy. Check out our history of the silliest horror movies of all time. Note: This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, just a rundown of the eras in horror comedy. Feel…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 29

The 10 Greatest Science Fiction Comedies

Land of the Lost is the latest cinematic attempt to combine science fiction and comedy. What are the classic films Land of the Lost must defeat to take its place among the greatest science fiction comedies? Here’s our list. 10. Spaceballs The Particulars: Mel Brooks’s Star Wars parody is from his later, weaker period, and…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins Jun 4

The Tremor Worms Are Back, Bitches

This is one of those holiday miracles, where if you dream it hard enough, eventually it will come true. Rumors are circulating that Universal is making Tremors: The Thunder From Down Under, which is presumably set in Australia. Bear in mind, a fifth movie in the underground monster series hasn’t been officially greenlit yet, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 19

Johnny 5 Is Coming Back, But Tremors Is Dead

Tremors is possibly the best movie about giant man-eating worms in the history of giant-worm movies. But alas, its reign is over. There will be no more rock jumping cowboys defending their worm filled mine shaft, or tight-jeansed Kevin Bacon’s terrible accent. Now that the Sci Fi Channel’s Tremors series is over, Stampede Entertainment (the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 10

Micro-Camera Implanted in Mouse’s Brain Watches for Parkinson Tremors

Scientists have injected a mouse with a chemical that makes its brain glow where there’s activity, and implanted a tiny camera directly inside the hippocampus to watch what’s going on. The team at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan are using the 0.1-inch-long camera to look for information on brain activity that causes…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jan 31

You’ve Got Graboids: The First Trailer for Tremors 5: Bloodlines

New Missile Study Reveals A Terrible Setback In Fight Against Graboids

Tremors 5 Is Happening, And This Time It’s Set In South Africa

The Real-Life Animal Inspirations Behind Movie Monsters

30 Cult Movies That Absolutely Everybody Must See

9 Movies You Should Be Ashamed To Be Afraid Of

DVD Box Sets That Make Thrilling Holiday Gifts

An educational film on graboids, a.k.a. the bane of Kevin Bacon

Save Kevin Bacon And Michael Gross From The Pixelated Tremors!

Earthquake Spotting Comes to Twitter, Courtesy of USGS

The Scary/Funny History Of Horror Comedy

The 10 Greatest Science Fiction Comedies

The Tremor Worms Are Back, Bitches

Johnny 5 Is Coming Back, But Tremors Is Dead

Micro-Camera Implanted in Mouse’s Brain Watches for Parkinson Tremors

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