#Tremors Shrieker Island

[julietwiskey1]

When was anyone going to tell me that there was a Tremors movie made in 2020??

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers.

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Burt Gummer…

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Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

My rating: 5/10

This does not compare favorably to the other Tremors movies I've seen, and there are some bits - whether due to bad direction/editing, budget constraints or 'rona reasons - where it feels like none of the characters and events are in the same place, but as cheap creature features go, I've definitely seen far worse.

[thetremorssaga]

Go celebrate Burt Gummer Day with Levi!

[wild-saber1337]

PARDON MY FRENCH (Artist: chasing artwork) on deviant art

Rediscovered my love for tremors today after stumbling apon the forgotten TV show that took place after the third movie, I love tremors and I was saddened to learn about two years ago they had plans for a new TV series but it was cancelled by the SYFI channel the day before airing. And after the shrieker island movie burt gummer the character died in the movie because the actor was getting too old to play burt so he had his character go out like a badass.

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Poll: Horror Movie Rentals 7: The New Rentals

After finally talking with the clerk, you are informed that the reason you've been cursed with repeatedly returning to this movie rental store is because you never actually got around to returning any previous rentals. You ask her why she kept letting you rent new movies and she just shrugs and goes back to playing on her phone.

You frown. All the outstanding VHSs are still at home and you really don't feel like leaving and coming back. You'll just have to remember to bring them next week.

But while you're here...

Nine VHS tapes sit before you, ready for renting. Maybe you feel like revisiting a beloved favorite. Maybe you want to check out something you've never seen before...

All are the seventh entry in their respective franchises. Again, a handful of these were never on VHS but whatever.

Part 1, Part 2: Return of the VHS, Part III: The Weird One, Part 4: The Final Return, Part 5: Where'd This Kid Come From?, Part 6: Curse of the Blockbuster

[cassyblue]

My family is watching tremors shrieker island and man this phD biologist man is the worst phD man I've seen on tv and is a stain against biologist rep. I knew this movie was bad. But not this bad. If ur a doctor of conservation biology u shouldn't vomit when u see a dead thing why aren't you putting ur hand in it like every other biologist I know

[thebutcher-5]

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo dedicato al cinema siamo finalmente giunti alla conclusione di una saga particolare e bizzarra che, pur con i suoi numerosi difetti, mi ha sempre divertito. Parliamo di Tremors: Shrieker Island, settimo e ultimo capitolo dell’omonima saga. Bill è il proprietario di una grande azienda bio-tecnologica e un grande amante della caccia e,…

[miss--river]

Movies That Jori and Jason Have Watched Together

despite this au taking place in 2009 im gonna list movies that have come out in later years as well because i simply dont care about consistency when it comes to certain things lmfao

Big Fat Liar (2002) Tremors (1990) Tremors 2 (1996) Tremors 3 (2001) Tremors 4 (2004) Tremors 5 (2005) Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018) Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) Air Bud (1997) Air Bud 2 (1998) Last House on the Left (2009) Megan (2022) The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) Skinamarink (2022) Goodnight Mommy (2015) Goodnight Mommy (2022) The Thing (1982) The Thing (2011) Speak No Evil (2022) Midsommar (2019) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Blair Witch (2016) The Cabin in the Woods (2012) Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) Alien 3 (1992) Alien: Resurrection (1997) The Strangers (2008) The Strangers 2 (2018) Nope (2022) Megan is Missing (2011) The Night House (2020) Footloose (1984) The Skeleton Key (2005) Haunting of the Queen Mary (2023) Fly Away Home (1996) The Lords of Salem (2012) Dear David (2023) Small Soldiers (1998) Starship Troopers (1997) Antlers (2021) Jaws (1975) Deep Blue Sea (1999) As Above, So Below (2014) The Witch (2015) Arcadian (2024) The Goonies (1985) Matilda (1996) The Shining (1980) Miss Congeniality (2000) Miss Congeniality 2 (2005) Hollow Man (2000) Grease (1978) Grease 2 (1982) Ghostbusters (1984) Ghostbusters 2 (1989) Ghostwatch (1992)

[makaientjluvdaprince]

I just watched Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

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Halloween 2022 - Day 14 - Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

Shrieker Island is actually a peninsula...

Well, here it is, we’ve most recent and perhaps final Tremors movie but we’ll get on to that. Michael Gross is back once more as Burt Gummer but, as mentioned during last year’s ‘A Cold Day in Hell’ viewing, his once long lost son is not here with him as Jamie Kennedy is sitting this one out. My quick research on the matter is coming up as inconclusive on exactly why that is, he did address this in a tweet at the time and even show off a draft script he had so that would suggest they had him in mind to reprise his role so maybe he jumped rather than being pushed. They don’t recast him but they do bring in what is a pretty much like for like replacement in Jon Heder who become’s Burt’s sidekick and even Travis’ mother is involved in this movie so it definitely seems like the character was meant to be here.  He doesn’t seem the type to be worried about artistic vision or that Travis has already achieved a character arc so there’s no point in playing him a third time. And I can’t imagine he’s got much else on that he’s going to turn down a pay cheque so presumably he priced himself out of the job?

They quickly hand wave away Travis’ absence by explaining that he’s in jail after trying to smuggle drugs over the Mexican border. Thinking about it, that would have been a much more interesting movie if it was about Burt trying to bust him out. Maybe involve the Graboids by having Burt use one to tunnel into the prison and then he and Travis have to team up to take it out after it escapes.

Travis’ replacement in Heder’s Jimmy feels like a regression to Travis when we were first introduced to him, needing to really step up, mature and find himself as the movie goes on. If anything, he’s a bit of an irritating character that I was expecting Kennedy to play when I first found out he was 5. He almost has this wide eyed amazement at the whole thing and keeps comparing the situation to every action movie under the sun with the likes of Rambo, Predator and Evil Dead name dropped.

At least they gave credit to Predator where it was due whilst they were mimicking it so much. A group of people in a jungle setting being hunted by something using infared vision? Hmmmm... There even seems to be a shout out to Jurrasic Park (or whichever sequel it was in) when someone gets jumped by a Shrieker that leaps in from off screen stage left ‘clever girl’ style.

All of this action takes place on someone’s private island, Bill who is played by Richard Brake. He seems to be one of Rob Zombie’s regular contributors after starring in Halloween II, 31, 3 From Hell and the recent Munsters remake. He doesn’t seem the type to be adapting a 1950’s TV sitcom to the big screen, unless he’s reimagining it so the Munsters are much closer to their movie monster inspirations and they just go on a killing spree. Expect that one day, it’s gonna be easier to jump in on that than try and get through 70 episodes of the TV show.

Anyway, Bill has the brilliant idea of profiting on all those trophy hunt type holidays you see talked about where city slicker types pay thousands to go hunt wild animals out on the plains. Only, this is some super next level apex predator shit as they’re hunting Graboids. And not just any Graboids, he’s genetically modified them to make them even smarter and harder to kill. As much as it does seem to be a reoccurring plot for people to want to capture a Graboid for some unexplained monetary gain, at least he actually has an end goal in mind even if his own hubris means there’s no way of containing it. He’s so supremely confident t hat they’ll be able to kill them all that there doesn’t seem to be any killswitch in place should things get out of control.

All this leads to a rescue call being sent out to Burt who’s living it up off the grid in Papa New Guinea, somewhere Jimmy is wary of going lest he get eaten by cannibals. Hey mister, Prince Phillip could get away with that sort of crack because he was royalty and he was of a different generation. You should know better. Burt does look like he’d be more suited to talking to a volleyball with a bloody handprint for a face than killing giant worms but one quick shave later and he’s ready to get to work.

Bill’s hubris does lead to him getting killed halfway through which leads us without a bad guy as such but I suppose the Graboids are pretty much meant to be the defacto heels of the piece anyway.

So much so that, SPOILER ALERT, in the big finale where Burt and Jimmy are trying to lead the last Graboid off a cliff where it will fall to it’s demise, Burt heroically shoves Jimmy out of harms way and gets gobbled up. In one last act of defiance, he gives the Graboid the finger, the middle finger...only, the way it’s shot makes it looks like he’s giving Jimmy the middle finger. Now, Burt has been eaten by a Graboid before so he might be okay...

Well, no. Probably not now...

And if this is the end, well I honestly can’t think of a more noble way for Burt to go than being beaten by the ultimate predator.

At least, we can only assume this is the end because Burt Gummer was the only thing keeping this whole series ticking along and this has all the hallmarks of it being his one last ride, from being effectively dragged out of retirement to having a warriors death on the field of battle. Michael Gross has hinted at another outing but one would imagine they’ve sort of written themselves into a corner here unless it turns out Burt is somehow miraculously alive despite being in the belly of a Graboid as it plummeted onto huge spikes and got blown to kingdom come. Plus, the dude is 75 at this point and isn’t going to be keeping up this pace forever.  Perhaps the most logical step for the series is for it to spend some time in hibernation before going the reboot route because there’s not really anywhere you can go in the core series at this point. Your most logical replacement for Burt was Travis but he’s seemingly on the outs now. Whilst Jimmy did show some more guts by the end of the movie, he doesn’t really seem like lead character material. But there’s no one else really left at this point, we had the passing of Fred Ward earlier this year so Earl’s out (though he was even older than Michael Gross anyway) so you’re either going entirely new character or the long awaited return of Kevin Bacon?

Still, the poignant ending of the surviving cast of characters leaving mementos at Burt’s grave does give a sense of closure to the whole series, even if it is a tragic one, rather than it just being left in limbo for an 8th movie that might never happen. And as the movie closes out to a montage of Burt’s greatest hits, that does feel a little bit like a more positive spin one could apply to this whole movie. But perhaps the more realistic summary would be that it’s yet another by the book Tremors sequel that does little to change the biology of it’s trademark monsters the way it’s earlier sequels did and hits the same story beats as it’s predecessors. That really is becoming a recurring point in this years marathon, perhaps aptly so given the overarching theme of nostalgia in this anniversary year.

But before we truly bring the curtain down on the Tremors franchise, we do have the unfinished business of looking at that early 2000’s TV series. After all, it is customary for me to tease it. Perhaps 2023 will finally see it come to this blog to act as Burt Gummer’s last hurrah...

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30 YEARS OF BURT GUMMER!