Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Duration: 100 minuten
Alternative title: Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Country:
United States
Directed by: S. S. Wilson
Stars: Fred Ward and Helen Shaver
IMDb score:
6,0 (34.908)
Releasedate: 9 April 1996
Tremors II: Aftershocks plot
"The Worms have turned."
After his battle with the giant earthworms, Earl is completely broke. Luckily for him, the creeps resurface. He's willing to exterminate them for $50,000 each. However, there is a new danger: the worms have mutated into a new race...
Actors and actresses
Earl Bassett
Kate 'White' Reilly
Grady Hoover
Burt Gummer
Senor Ortega
Pedro
Julio
Oil Worker
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13255 messages
- 11141 votes
Mediocre film in which the giant worms infest a new area. This second part lacks the freshness and especially the fun of Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward together (Christopher Gartin can't exactly compensate for the absence of Kevin Bacon). The budget is also significantly lower. The mutation of the monsters does provide some entertaining moments during the last part.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Step back.
Especially watched because it will soon disappear from Netflix, and I don't expect the series of Tremors to come on TV anytime soon. Despite my reasonable expectations, I was surprised to see that it doesn't even come close in terms of fun.
The pace is a lot more boring especially. Despite the fact that the film is sometimes quite clumsy and has some funny moments, the clumsy fun of part 1 is nowhere to be seen and the tension has actually been completely removed from it.
Especially since blowing up worms seems to be much easier now, and with part 1 they were a bit more unpredictable and scarier. If they are then replaced by a kind of group of Rabbits, the film actually withdraws completely.
Also, the movie sometimes starts to use CGI, and then it pretty much falls apart. There is less of a really dirty atmosphere. Also, part suddenly takes place in a grassland, instead of the desert, and then you get almost completely different Tremors than part 1.
Although it still has quite reasonable moments, this part is more boring and generally less so. Too bad, because part 1 was quite a positive surprise at the time.
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Duke Nukem
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- 1821 messages
- 2010 votes
Agree with everything Shadowed writes above. Without Kevin Bacon the fun is gone, Chris Gartin is still unfunny with his stupid hat. There is no chemistry between him and Fred Ward. They try to reference the duo Bacon-Ward by repeating the rock/paper/scissors game, but without success. An important element of the success of the first Tremor film is the choice of characters, they are all believable and equally well acted.
The setting is also less fun this time, the sandy desert with surrounding mountain range from the first film was just better. It's suddenly very easy to blow up the sandworms with dynamite, removing the tension from the first film. The worms have now also got feet and are happily walking around, further removing the threat of monsters lurking underground. This is no longer a horror, but a bland comedy. The CGI monsters look very ugly at times.
Michael Gross, the dad from 'Family Ties', does participate again and as a gun enthusiast Burt Gummer he is one of the nicest characters from the first film. That head of a sandworm hanging on his wall as a trophy! 
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