Tremors
With six official follow-ups and a short-lived TV series, one would expect Tremors to have the pop culture impact of a sci-fi franchise like Jurassic Park . Instead, it became a direct-to-video cash cow for Universal who milked the fanbase with prequels and sequels sets in various exotic locals with survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) fighting off evolutionary upgrades of the original Graboids. Despite creative involvement by creators S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, nothing can top the charm of the 1990 original, which is just as much fun as it was 30 years ago. Ne'er do wells Earl and Valentine (Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon) are just about ready to ditch their backwater hometown of Perfection, Nevada (population: 14). But instead they're called upon to defend it from underground monsters that treat the valley like one long smorgasbord. Eyeless and insatiable, these "Graboids" aren't quite as dumb as they fi...