Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
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| Tremors 3: Back to Perfection | |
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 Universal Studios Widescreen DVD |
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| Directed by | Brent Maddock |
| Produced by | S.S. Wilson Nancy Roberts |
| Written by | S.S. Wilson & Brent Maddock & Nancy Roberts (story) John Whelpley (screenplay) |
| Starring | Michael Gross Shawn Christian Susan Chuang Charlotte Stewart Ariana Richards Tony Genaro Barry Livingston John Pappas Robert Jayne Billy Rieck |
| Music by | Kevin Kiner |
| Cinematography | Virgil L. Harper |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
| Release date(s) | October 2, 2001  |
| Running time | 104 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Tremors 2: Aftershocks |
| Followed by | Tremors 4: The Legend Begins |
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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) is a comedic monster film, the third in the Tremors series featuring the subterranean worm-creatures dubbed "Graboids". It was directed by Brent Maddock and stars Michael Gross.
[edit] Plot
After the visit to a Mexican oilfield in Tremors 2: Aftershocks, this film returns the action to the small Nevada town of Perfection, which was the setting for the first Tremors film. Local resident and adventurer Burt Gummer comes home from a successful, international Graboid/Shrieker hunt, only to disgustedly learn that eleven years after the first Graboid attack, life has pretty much slipped back to normal. However, he soon finds himself forced to deal with a variety of problems: A thrill-seeker named Jack Sawyer has set up a tourist-trap "Graboid Tour" which features a faked attack by the creatures, while obnoxious would-be land-developer, Melvin Plug, is attempting to contract housing estates around the town, and the US government has dispatched a team of meddling scientists. Worst of all, as Jack Sawyer attempts to fool his latest group of tourists, his assistant Buford is eaten; the Graboids have returned. Because the townsfolk failed to maintain their anti-Graboid detection system, by the time anyone realizes that the creatures are back, they have already passed through their Graboid and Shrieker phases, and turned into something new: winged beasts who become airborne by blasting jets of flames from their rear-ends. (The new owner of Walter Chang's general store, Walter's niece Jodi, dubs them "Ass-Blasters"). After being forced to destroy Burt's home, Burt, Jodi and Jack end up cornered in the town dump by a flock of Ass-Blasters; they kill all but one of them, which is ironically eaten by a mutant Graboid; in addition to being an albino, "El Blanco" never hatches out a pack of Shriekers. Meanwhile, attacked in Jodi's store by a lone Ass-Blaster, mother and daughter Nancy and Mindy Sterngood discover that once it is satiated with food, instead of engaging in asexual reproduction like a Shrieker it enters a comatose state. They truss up the creature and sell it to a wild-animal act in Las Vegas. After that, life in Perfection goes back to what passes for normal, as El Blanco has been declared by the federal government to be an endangered species. Burt uses this fact to shut down Melvin's housing project, and as the movie ends, leaves an enraged Melvin trapped on a boulder by El Blanco.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Gross - Burt Gummer
- Shawn Christian - "Desert" Jack Sawyer
- Susan Chuang - Jodi Chang
- Charlotte Stewart - Nancy Sterngood
- Ariana Richards - Mindy Sterngood
- Robert Jayne - Melvin Plug
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