Last night I was in a feel good kind of mood, so I avoided the more serious dramas and genre films for the much lighter, but highly entertaining 1990 movie Tremors.

Tremors is not a horror film; it is a monster movie. It is a monster movie that winks an eye at the long tradition of monster movies, gleefully ditching certain aspects, such as a tedious set-up that explains the monsters, and retains what made the best monster films work, a delightful lack of cynicism. Continue reading →