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Spooktober 2024: Day 17 Grabboids (Tremors)

Warning: Reader is Gen Neutral but implied to be white (phrasing implies being born to white parents instead of adopted, I'm sorry)

Grabboids are the monster of the 1990s movie, Tremors. It's a PG-13 movie that is cheesy and just stupid fun, despite being a "horror" movie. For this, ignore all the movies after 2.

It was supposed to be a bit of a vacation for 141 after the shit hole of a mission they had. Instead, Price and his boys are all over the small store, off the floor with a few locals joining them.

“Alright, I just sent the text to Dad,” you declare softly as you look up from your phone. The locals all raise their fists, grin and give thumbs up, before suddenly going silent as the weird monsters move under the shop. It doesn’t break open the floor, but it does cause the floor to bulge a bit. They stay silent for a minute longer, before some of the locals start to whisper again.

“Your da? What’s he going to do?” Gaz asks from beside you, sitting on a lower shelf.

“Dad and Mom actually helped take care of the Grabboids about a year before they got married and a year and a half before they had me,” you explain, still soft. Price wants to demand more information, but it’s obvious that everyone is being quiet on purpose, so he just focuses on you and Gaz as his Sergeant continues to ask questions.

“Grabboid? That’s what they’re called?” he asks.

“Yeah. They’re long ass worms that have these tendrils that come out of their mouths,” you explain, miming said tendrils by wiggling your fingers by your mouth. You suddenly make a grabbing motion as you continue, “They grab whatever they’re gonna eat and pull it back into their mouth. Scared the shit out of me th’ first time I saw one.”

“You’ve seen them?” Gaz sputters out. You turn to him and raise an eyebrow, causing Ghost and Soap to both snort. Price chuckles as well, watching as his Sergeant scrunches his face, mumbling something about stupid questions.

Suddenly, a loud explosion sounds from outside, getting closer to the shop and sending the thing fleeing back the way it came. You jump off the shelf and roll, bouncing up and motioning everyone toward the door.

“Let’s move, we have maybe two minutes before they come back!” You yell, sprinting out. Everyone runs out after you, climbing up the fixtures that had confused Price as they entered town. An armored RV drives up and the top opens, revealing a lovely woman.

“Sweetie, there you are!” she calls up, “Val and I will start the evacuation, but you might need these.” You lean over the ledge enough to catch the pipe bombs with a manic grin.

“I thought you said I should never have access to pyro techniques, Mom!” you call back. Your mother gives you a look Price has seen on both his own mother and Soap’s ma.

“Listen to your Ma, you little shit!” a man’s voice calls from in the RV.

“I am, Dad!” you yell back, before turning to the group, “Alright, we’ll go in two groups.”

The locals are carefully lowered into the RV, leaving you with 141 as it drives off, completely immune to the Grabboids’ attempts to knock it over or drag it back. You sit down, fiddling with a pipe bomb while looking out at the town.

“Don’t worry,” you reassure them, “Mom and Dad act as the evacuation crew for Uncle Burt. Uncle Earl set up a safe zone near his Grabboid Amusement Park with Auntie Kate.”

“Wha’s th’ plan with th’ bombs?” Ghost asks, crouching down beside you. You give them a grin and all Price can think is that you and Soap are going to get along far too well.

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Y'all I'm watching the 1990 film TREMORS, and let me just say that Val and Earl should be a couple. I need fics of them. I checked AO3 and there's onlike 7 or 8 fics about them as a pairing.

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braius looking and the myced like

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INPRNT SHOP!

casual reminder I have a new print-only shop! I'm still adding pieces, if anyone has any requests please drop me a reply or DM!

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Ah Tremors... Burt my absolute fave <3

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Tremors 2: Aftershock (1996) = 3.3/5

Plot …………. 2.5

Acting ……… 3

Production…. 3

Concept ..….. 4.5

Earl Bassett, now a laid-back living legend, is coaxed by the Mexican government into hunting and exterminating the Graboids that are threatening an important oil-refinery. But no amount of explosives could prepare him for what the worms have in store.

Director:

S.S. Wilson

Writers:

Brent Maddock

S.S. Wilson

Ron Underwood

Cast:

Fred Ward

Chris Gartin

Helen Shaver

Michael Gross

Marcelo Tubert

IMDb

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When the school doesn't post the schedule

But yeah, thanks to a lot of snow, my school had a late start but didn't post the schedule. So I was wandering the halls like an idiot for five minutes.

Welcome to Colorado.

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Tremors 5 Bloodlines 2015

What a good beginning, nature channel with Burt to recap all the graboid knowledge, such a good parody of shows at the time, and then they cut to some guys who exist to die from graboids so they can show the titlecard, and that's what they do. Jamie Kennedy is in this movie, name of renown? Seems to be for other people. Slightly washed up youtuber Burt Gummer and this younger more tech-savvie guy? I missed like 20 minutes from when they enter into africa to an ass-blaster attack on a bridge, but apparently there was a giant graboid fossil or something, makes sense theres some uber graboid in the cradle of humanity, those things are older than that. Shock and awe there's poachers in Africa, no one could've called this, he gets locked in a cage and goes crazy immediately. They do a jurassic park raptor kitchen scene with an ass-blaster and it's awesome, Tremors is the type of movie that can get away with doing that I think, it's an awesome reference. Why can the graboid tongues detach from the graboid as independant tentacles, that's stupid, no second way about it. It really seems like there's 2 seperate movies in this, the African family who are doing much more of a horror thing, and Burt Gummer and co who are having fun shooting things and having comedy hijinx. Anyways they team up and come up with an ingenious plan wiping out the big graboid making them all extinct in africa maybe probably.

CGI has notably improved in this movie but it's been 11 years since the last movie so that makes sense, they have actual shading now which does a lot really. Also, there's a lot of piss jokes in this movie? what's up with that.

Final Review: yeah that was another tremors movie, it was alright, not a bad one but not particularly a good one either

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Tremors: a Cold Day in Hell 2018

Tv-movie ass opener where a bunch of guys find tremors and get killed by them, then the title card pops up. Somehow gummer is more washed up than he was the last movie? what happened to his youtube career, he like runs a gun store or something now? His son is still there, and sucks more than ever, his entire gimmick is that he wants to fuck women really badly. Burts having panic attacks now or something though which is kind of cool but also used pretty lame in the story. I guess it's fine that graboids can be in the arctic, it's a somewhat similar type of environment, I guess, so why not have them live there even though it makes no sense. They crash a plane into the arctic circle and immediately the FBI found them and were rude to Burt, and then the people that called them in also found them even though there was no kind of signal they sent, they're trying really hard to make the government evil in this one. DARPA, is supposedly using these scientists to test graboids as bio weapons or some shit, which is very stupid. Also one of these scientists entire gimmick is that he's a pansy loser who's scared of everything, very annoying. It turns out like 5 episodes ago Burt Gummer got secretly infected with a graboid disease that's giving him brain disease, and the only cure is antibodies from a live graboid because idk you can't just use a freshly dead one? Idk they do some stupid stuff to kill graboids, it turns out the government is planning to be evil but not evil yet, Burt doesn't have to pay taxes anymore and his son has a love interest

It's kind of funny that the arctic is very clearly a CGI'd white desert, or otherwise greenscreened locations. This is just all their regular set locations but they blueshifted it so it looks cold instead of like Nevada.

Final Review: yeah this one was kinda garbage, shitty made for tv movie. the other movies were also made for tv but they were at least better

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INPRNT SHOP!

casual Holiday reminder I have a new print-only shop! I'm still adding pieces, if anyone has any requests please drop me a reply or DM!

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Next year will be in Lone Pine around July/August if you wanna get prepared early.

There is apparently a thing in Santa Fe called "TremorsFest" and

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There is apparently a thing in Santa Fe called "TremorsFest" and

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More Acid Rain World, and some Lost Planet, I think they go well together. As well as some other 1:18 stuff. The Tremors pic I took in Santa Fe after Tremors Fest.