Tremors
Date: 1990
Director: Ron Underwood
Production Company: Universal
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire
Location(s): Alabama Hills, California, USA
Region(s): N. America
Storyline:
Nasty “graboids” (large sand worms) live under the desert and threaten to destroy the tiny town of Perfection, Nevada. A slow burner which took off in the video shops, spawned three sequels and created a few internet sites specifically to adore Tremors.
Additional Information:
My enormous gratitude goes to Lone Pine resident Dave Holland, who wrote On Location in Lone Pine, and was kind enough to give a wonderful tour in his 4×4 around the Alabama Hills, with stills, hot coffee and much experience. SJ
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Bacon "takes a leak." Not sure those are real cliffs.
- Capture 2
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Bacon wakes up Ward sleeping in the pickup. That may be Owen's Lake in the background, putting this south of Lone Pine, California.
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Bacon and Ward drive into "Perfection."
- Capture 4
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Where the raod workmen are attacked by a graboid. Lots of lovely rocks to identify. The Alabama Hills (rock heaven).
- Capture 5
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Ward and Bacon drive around a bit: the view from "Perfection."
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Ward and Bacon encounter their first worm.
- Capture 7
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Seismologist Finn Carter joins the boys.
Not quite the right angle, but the same load of rocks in the background. SJ
- Capture 8
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Refuge on some rocks, safe from the worms.
Hooray, same rock, like finding a needle in a haystack. SJ
- Capture 9
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Stuck on a rock above Lone Pine close to Mount Whitney.
- Capture 10
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Vaulting to safety.
I should have crouched down lower to match this shot, and waited a few hours for the sun to come round but there's the row of rocks to vault. On right of now. SJ
- Capture 11
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Making an escape by pickup. This area has hosted many films, especially Hopalong Cassidy, early John Waynes, Gunga Din. Visit the Lone Pine Film Museum for more.
- Capture 12
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- Capture 13
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Another rock which offers sanctuary from the graboids.
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A larger group this time. Quite a view.
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Ward, Bacon and Carter. Same place as trem013 and 014 and, I think, 001.