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Tremors

Giant killer worms in the desert. It sounds absurd, but this 1990 science fiction/horror/comedy flick strangely makes it work. Some call it a B-movie cult classic (It did go on to spawn two sequels, a prequel and a short-lived TV show), but the laughable special effects, bad acting and kooky characters put it more in the “so-bad-they’re-good” category, in my mind at least. Welcome to Perfection, Nev., a small, ex-mining town home to only 14 residents, including a general store owner, a graduate student and a hilarious survivalist couple. Val (Kevin Bacon) and his friend Earl (Fred Ward) are tired of working as poor handymen, so they visit the next town only to discover along the way several strange deaths. Thinking there is a murderer on the prowl, they return to Perfection to warn the others, ultimately uncovering the truth: Giant sandworms are hunting people down one-by-one through the earth. The only question is, how can they be stopped?