20 - Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

I remember the Tremors movie when it came out, way back in 1990.  Kevin Bacon was even in it!  Since then we've had 6 sequels, and even a short-lived TV series!  None of the sequels had Kevin Bacon, but all of them had Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, a survivalist who managed to survive multiple attacks by Graboids, Shriekers, Ass-Blasters and whatever other forms of Graboid that evolved from the originals.

Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) is about a big-game hunter who also runs a genetics company.  He's tasked his tech team to "juice" (genetically enhance) a handful of graboid eggs so he can have the ultimate big-game hunt with a bunch of high-powered rich executives.  Confining the Graboids to an island, the execs set up camp on a nearby biological preserve inhabited by a bunch of biologists working for his company, boating back and forth over the course of a weekend to hunt the graboids down.  Of course, things never go to plan in a good monster movie, and not only are the graboids harder to kill than expected, but they don't stay on their own island for very long...

Michael Gross returns as Burt Gummer, Survivalist and graboid expert.  The supporting cast is actually quite good, and Michael Gross is an acting veteran.  There's not much build-up in this one, the battle against the graboids pretty much begins immediately and continues throughout the rest of the movie.  Special effects are decent, the Graboids are CGI-generated here instead of being physical special effects like back in 1990, but they still aren't bad.  The new Shriekers (the juiced ones) are pretty cool-looking if nothing else.  Shrieker Island just dropped on NF today, if you want to watch it there.  Not sure I'd watch the movie twice, but the female guide with the bow and arrows, (Anna, played by Cassie Clare, I think?) is very easy on the eyes.  Wouldn't mind seeing her again.  Just watching her pull back a bowstring made me sit up and take notice.  Not bad for a single watch, and hey, it's a Tremors movie!  Can't go wrong with vicious, murderous monsters who explode and launch orange goo all over everything for hundreds of feet all around.  It's like blowing up a dead whale at the beach with dynamite, only with a little less running and screaming.  :-)

In other news, we're 2/3rds of the way through the month!  Another week and a half of horror, and then the grand finale of horror reviews for the month!  Oh, and of course, there's Halloween, which probably won't be as much fun this year because of that whole darned global pandemic thing.  But, if there's one thing watching horror movies all my life has taught me, it's that death often leads to new life!  Yeah, I'm sounding cheerful about a global pandemic, but hey, it's 2020!  With all the disasters we've already had to suffer through this year, a global pandemic might be the least of your concerns.  Stay safe and stay strong, Horror move fans.  We know how to hunker down and wait out the bad things in life.  Watching horror movies, with popcorn!  :-)

Til tomorrow, then.