18. Tremors

The concept is sharks under the ground, which is extra terrifying because you can't get away from them by staying out of the water at Amity Island Beach. And these "Graboids," as they are so aptly named, terrorize the small town of "Perfection Nevada" in grand fashion from "The Deep" below its inhabitants' feet. Apparently, Kevin Bacon was at one time embarrassed about his role in this horror-comedy, but now that it has become a "cult classic," he's thinks fondly of this fun little flick. Not everything has to be so serious, Kevin Bacon, but these "dirt dragons," clearly based on the "Sandworms," or Shai-Hulud, if you prefer, of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, are nothing to trifle with. It takes a geologist (Finn Carter), two obscurely employed, possibly handy men (Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward), some doomsday preppers (Michael Gross and Reba McEntire), and a whole cast of other quirky folks to rid the Nevada Dessert of these menaces.

And we welcome a Tremors expert since an inappropriately young age, my sister Andrea, onto this podcast to frame its finer points, provide some unbelievable behind the scenes insights, and yuck it up with us two fools.

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