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''Tremors'' is a 1990 American western monster film from Universal Pictures, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, Brent Maddock, and S. S. Wilson, directed by Ron Underwood, and written by Maddock, Wilson, and Underwood. ''Tremors'' stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire. This is the first installment of the ''Tremors'' franchise, which was followed by four direct-to-video sequels: ''Tremors 2: Aftershocks''; ''Tremors 3: Back to Perfection''; a series prequel, ''Tremors 4: The Legend Begins''; and finally ''Tremors 5: Bloodlines''. Thirteen episodes of ''Tremors: The Series'', a television program based on the film series, aired from March through August 2003.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tremors: The Series DVD Art Rumbles Your Home Video Collection )〕 ==Plot== Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Basset work as handymen in Perfection, Nevada, an isolated ex-mining settlement in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They eventually tire of their jobs and leave for Bixby, the nearest town. As they leave, they discover another resident, Edgar, dead on top of an electrical tower, though still holding on to the tower's cross beams, along with his .30-30 Winchester rifle. Jim Wallace, the town doctor, determines that Edgar died of dehydration, apparently afraid for some reason to climb down. Later on, an unknown force kills an elderly shepherd, "Old Fred," and his flock of sheep. Upon discovering his severed head buried in the sand, Val and Earl become convinced that a killer is on the loose; they head back to town to warn the other residents. They try to get help, but upon discovering that the phone lines are dead, they find the only road out of town completely blocked by the rock slide that downed the phone lines. On the way back into town, their truck gets stuck. A snake-like creature with sharp teeth has grabbed onto and wrapped itself around the truck's rear axle; it is torn in half when Val stomps on the gas pedal and drives away. Val and Earl return to town and borrow horses. They come upon Wallace and his wife's ''buried'' car near the couple's trailer; the couple are nowhere to be seen. As they press on, something suddenly erupts out of the ground, revealing the earlier snake-like creature to be one of the multiple tentacled "tongues" employed by an enormous burrowing worm-like creature, later named a "Graboid". Thrown from their horses, the two men run for their lives. The chase ends when the eyeless creature violently rams itself into the concrete wall of an aqueduct, dying from the impact. Rhonda LeBeck, a graduate student conducting seismology tests in the area, stumbles onto the scene; she deduces there are three other Graboids after finding three similar seismic disturbances happening at the same time. The three are then trapped overnight atop a cluster of boulders by one of the creatures; they eventually escape by pole-vaulting from rock-to-rock in order to reach Rhonda's truck. After they return to town, the Graboids attack, eventually killing general store owner Walter Chang and forcing the other citizens to the town's rooftops. Survivalist couple Burt and Heather Gummer manage to kill one of the creatures with an elephant gun after unknowingly luring it with a vibrating machine to and then through their basement wall. In town the Graboids attack the foundations of other buildings, knocking over Nestor's trailer and eventually dragging him underground. Realizing they cannot stay any longer, Val commandeers a bulldozer and chains a dump truck trailer to the rear, while everyone else distracts the creatures; the survivors use it to leave Perfection by way of a "jeep trail" set in bedrock in order to escape to the mountains. They drive by the Gummer compound to pick up Burt and Heather, who are now on their roof. Burt bemoans the fact that most of his survivalist supplies are now buried underground. On the way there, the Graboids disable the bulldozer by digging a wide trench just below the surface of the ground, forcing the survivors to run to the safety of a large boulder; they are able scare away the creatures using Burt's homemade pipe bomb explosives. Earl later gets the idea to lure the creatures in and have them swallow Burt's lighted pipe bombs. While this works perfectly on one Graboid, the other spits the explosive back towards the survivors, forcing Val, Earl, and Rhonda off the rock to avoid the explosion. With one last pipe bomb, Val allows the remaining creature to chase him to the edge of a cliff and then exploding the bomb, scaring the now panicked Graboid into tunneling through the high cliff face, where it plummets to its death. The group is able to call in the authorities to begin an investigation of the creatures, with Rhonda staying on as a local expert to both advise and supervise. With her staying for awhile, Earl goads Val into finally approaching Rhonda romantically. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tremors (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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