Tag: Tremors
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‘Return of the Living Dead’ Turned Romero’s Zombies Into a Really Good Joke
Horror, like few other genres, can bring out intense emotion from its audience. The only other genre that comes close is comedy. One makes your heart race with fear, the other makes you laugh. Then there’s the combination of the two: the horror-comedy. When done right, they’ll have you in stitches while ripping you open…
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Striking The Right Scare-To-Laugh Ratio Was Key To Making Tremors
In the words of Kevin Bacon, “Funny-scary is a very difficult thing.” The star of Ron Underwood’s horror-comedy “Tremors” has spoken at length about the 1990 creature feature and his role as stubborn handyman Val McKee who, alongside Fred Ward’s Earl Bassett, tries to escape the doldrums of Perfection, Nevada when giant prehistoric underground monsters…
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If Kevin Bacon Isn’t Your Obvious Choice for Scream King, He Should Be
When thinking about Scream Kings, some names that come to mind might include Robert Englund, Bruce Campbell, and Bill Skarsgård. These actors have truly embodied some special characters that stay in a horror heart until the end of time. But what about Kevin Bacon? Bacon has been a mainstay in the horror genre since 1980…
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Spain’s Atera Films Takes Rights to ‘Camila Comes Out Tonight’ & ‘Clara Sola’ (Exclusive)
San Sebastian-based production-distribution outfit Atera Films has taken Spanish distribution rights to Inés María Barrionuevo’s “Camila Comes out Tonight” –sold by Latido Films – and Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s “Clara Sola,” whose international sales are handled by Luxbox.With the two new titles, Atera underscores its aim of discovering and making available to Spanish audiences young Ibero-American…
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A 30-Minute ‘Tremors’ Making-Of Documentary is Available to Watch for Free on YouTube
Tremors celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and Universal Pictures is kicking up a storm to celebrate the occasion. There’s a new direct-to-vod sequel on the way in the form of Tremors: Shrieker Island and a 30-minute documentary, which the studio made available free to watch online now. The documentary, titled Tremors: Making Perfection, features…
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Sequel Bits: ‘Bond’, ‘Fast and Furious’, ‘Bad Boys’, ‘Avatar’, ‘Zombieland’, ‘Tremors’, ‘Escape Room’, ‘Dogma’
In this edition of Sequel Bits: Phoebe Waller-Bridge might come back to write Bond 26. The Dwayne Johnson/Vin Diesel Furious feud has apparently ended. Bad Boys For Life gets a poster. James Cameron really is still making those Avatar sequels, and there’s an image to prove it! A
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San Sebastian: Horizontes Latinos Selects ’The Moneychanger,’ ‘Spider,’ ‘Chicuarotes’
Madrid — Frederico Veiroj’s “The Moneychanger,” Andrés Wood’s “Spider” and Gael García Bernal’s “Chicuarotes” will play in San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, the Spanish Festival’s most important sidebar, along with its New Directors strand, and a virtual best of the fests titles of Latin American movies with standout at Sundance in particular, plus Berlin, Cannes, Venice…
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8 Alternative Monster Movies, From ‘It Follows’ to ‘Rubber’
When “Crawl” opens in theaters this week, Alexandre Aja’s latest film promises to do for alligators what other offbeat horror movies have done for such wacky villains as tires, worms, and tigers. While the monster movie subgenre has long enjoyed scaring up audiences with traditional baddies like zombies, werewolves, vampires, even alien beings and large-scale…
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Kevin Bacon Shares What the ‘Tremors’ TV Series Would’ve Looked Like — and How It Could Still Happen
The “Tremors” TV series started with Kevin Bacon, and it may have ended with him on Saturday. The star of the 1990 film joined the cast and producers at the Atx Television Festival to share never-before-seen footage of the pilot and explain where the show would’ve gone had it been picked up to series.“I had…
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‘Tremors’ Reboot Starring Kevin Bacon Dead at Syfy
Bad news, Tremors fans. The Tremors reboot starring Kevin Bacon is dead in the ground. Syfy passed on the pilot for the TV series reboot of the 1990 cult classic with original star Bacon set to reprise his role. Kevin Bacon teamed with Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum to develop a Tremors TV series, which would…