Graboids
have been found in the Great White North. Naturally, it’s up to Burt Gummer (Michael
Gross) and his son (Jamie Kennedy) to stop them. They eventually learn Burt is suffering from a
life-threatening illness due to a run-in with a graboid in a previous
installment. That of course means they must
trap one of the giant worms alive to make an antidote.
The
long-running Tremors series is more consistently mediocre than your average DTV
franchise. This sixth installment is on
the lower rungs of the Tremors ladder, but it’s a slight improvement over the
last entry, Bloodlines. You can say one
thing for the Tremors movies: At least they
keep the always great Michael Gross employed.
Bloodlines
did the tried-and-true sequel formula of taking the same premise and putting it
in a new location, Africa. That didn’t
really add anything to the Tremors lore besides giving Burt a son he could hurl
insults off. A Cold Day in Hell once
again changes the location, this time to the Canadian Arctic.
Now
this change showed a modicum of promise.
The opening scene in particular is a real showstopper as several
scientists get attacked by a graboid hidden somewhere under the ice and
snow. This sequence also showcases some
surprising gore for a PG-13 movie (the frozen severed head was a nice
touch). Too bad the rest of the movie
takes place in a thawed stretch of land that’s home to a boring government lab
set-up. From here on out, most of the
attacks occur when graboid tentacles crash through windows and/or
floorboards. We do get a nifty
“ass-blaster” graboid that flies, but it doesn’t stick around for very
long. In other words, it’s just like any
other Tremors movie, but with snow-covered mountains in the background.
It
was a shame Kevin Bacon’s Tremors TV show didn’t get picked up. Maybe now he can finally return to the
franchise and give it a proper send-off.
That’s about the only way you’re going to breathe a little life into
these movies. (Or at the very least, get
Fred Ward back.)
Gross
gets the best line of the movie when he says, “My balls are in the Guinness
book of balls!”
Hey,
are you wondering where my review for Tremors:
Bloodlines is? Well, you can find
it in my latest book, The Bloody Book of Horror, which is currently on sale at
Amazon. To get your copy, follow this
handy link: https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Book-Horror-Mitch-Lovell/dp/1542566622/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1538450805&sr=8-3
I liked this one and Bloodlines
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