Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
Short description
Burt Gummer returns to the small Nevada desert town of Perfection, where the underground creatures known as Graboids have resurfaced after years of quiet. The town has turned its past attacks into a tourist trade, with residents making a living from worm-themed attractions. Burt, a survivalist and seasoned hunter of the creatures, distrusts the calm and keeps his arsenal ready. When the monsters reappear, he joins forces with a young local entrepreneur and a souvenir shop owner to defend the town, only to face a new flying form of the creatures.
Released in 2001, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection is the third entry in the series and the directorial debut of Brent Maddock, who had previously worked on the franchise as a writer. Michael Gross leads the cast as Burt Gummer, a role he had played in the earlier films, alongside Shawn Christian, Susan Chuang, Charlotte Stewart, Ariana Richards and Tony Genaro. Produced by Universal Pictures and Stampede Entertainment on a budget of about six million dollars, the film was a direct-to-video release rather than a theatrical one.
Reception has been modest. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.3 out of 10 from roughly 21,000 votes, while on TMDB it scores 5.8 out of 10 from around 742 votes. A small set of five critics' reviews gives an average of 5.8 out of 10, close to the audience figures on both sites, suggesting a similar level of approval from critics and viewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- Many scenes with Shriekers were cut from the final version of the film to maintain the pace of the narrative and for financial reasons. As a result, Shriekers are only shown in the opening scene, and later there are shots of their discarded shells.
- 'El Blanco' is a reference to Herman Melville’s novel 'Moby Dick' (1851), which tells the story of a white whale with behavior atypical for whales. This assumption is confirmed by Burt’s line upon first meeting El Blanco, when he asks for his name (the novel by Melville also begins with this line). However, while Moby Dick was an aggressive member of a generally peaceful species, here it is the opposite, and El Blanco is a peaceful member of an aggressive species. Furthermore, in Melville’s novel, there is an active search for and pursuit of Moby Dick, whereas in the film, El Blanco pursues Burt.
- When a geologist dies from an attack by a creature in the desert, his wounds on his back bleed orange. This happened because fake blood mixed with carbon dioxide from the fire extinguisher that covered the man's body for safety purposes – the bright orange color was the result of chemical reactions that occurred when the two were mixed.
- In a scene where Burt talks to a mother and child, the latter asks to be photographed with 'the Graboids'. Due to a general misconception, the creatures were also called 'the Graboids', although in previous films they were called 'Graboids'.
- Some Graboids were created using computer technology. This is the first film in the franchise where such technology was used to create the creatures, whereas previously they were either full-size puppets or one-quarter scale models. Some Shriekers were also created using computer technology in this film, as well as in S.S. Wilson’s previous film, 'Tremors 2: Aftershocks' (1996).
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