Propelled by impressive practical effects, this is an oater-inflected monster movie which fully embraces its own icky absurdity and literally low culture – but the film’s hidden weapon is a strong focus on characterisation.

| Jul 4, 2022

Tremors is the Slacker of monster movies: bemused, improvisatory, willfully low-key.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 22, 2020

It's a zippy melodrama for small-town America and small-towners at heart: well-executed kitsch for audiences that will still be amused at the notion that the bugs are getting so big, they'll drag us all down.

| Jan 22, 2020

Unlike the typical movie homage, Tremors actually improves on the B-movies that inspired it.

| Jan 22, 2020

Entertaining and unself-conscious enough to stand the test of time, even if the puppetry doesn't.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2011

Tremors has a few clever twists but ultimately can't decide what it wants to be - flat-out funny, which it's not, or a scarefest.

| Oct 18, 2008

This is what a monster movie is supposed to be like, and it's terrific.

| Feb 9, 2006

More than anything else, it looks like the sort of movie that might have been put together so that tourists visiting Universal Studios could see a movie being made.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

A delightful throwback to such '50s and '60s films as "Them," "The Deadly Mantis" and "Attacks" of both "The Giant Leeches" and "The Crab Monsters."

| Jan 1, 2000

Tremors evokes the spirit of cheesy monster movies without resorting to copying, parody, or mere irony.

| Jan 1, 2000