Tremors (1990)

"I can't believe we said no to free beer!"

To most horror fans, the 90's was the decade that horror died a stinking, oozing death and retreated to the nether-regions of the video shelves, only to crawl out when Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson made it cool again in 1996. By the time 1992 had rolled around, the amount of larger budget horror films getting made were scarce, with companies like Full Moon opting to just go straight-to-video where they knew they could make the serious cash from horror junkies. The low budget filmmakers switched from making horror to more indie-genre fare in the wake of Tarantino and Kevin Smith, seeing that lack of money didn't have to equal lack of talent. It meant that being a horror fan, we didn't have too many really great films to watch. It wasn't all dead in the 90's, though, as a couple of gems managed to sneak through the financing meat grinder and make it to production. One of the best off the starting block for that decade was Tremors.

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