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Synopsis: A small town gradually becomes aware of a strange creature which picks off people one by one. But what is this creature, and where is it? At the same time, a seismologist is working in the area, she detects _tremors_. The creature lives underground, and can 'pop up' without warning. Trapped in their town, the town-folk have no escape.
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Director(s): Ron Underwood
Production: MCA/Universal Pictures
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
PG-13
Year:
1990
96 min
1,645 Views


who ain't scared of

a Winchester rifle?

Then what'd they do?

Camp out down below

and just wait

for him to die?

What the hell?

What the sh*t?

Hey, Fred !

Hey, there, old Fred !

Hey, Fred !

Fred !

This is weird.

This is real weird.

Jesus!

What the hell's

going on?

l mean,

what the hell

is going on?

Everybody get the hell

out of here!

There's a killer

on the loose!

What?

A murderer, man !

A real psycho!

He's cutting

people's heads off.

l'm not kidding !

They're pulling

our chain.

Yeah.

What?

Sh*t.

Howard ! Howard !

Carmine?

Who could be doing it?

l'm not accusing anybody.

l'm just saying,

some of my cattle

are missing.

Are you serious?

Old Fred's dead?

Dude, something

like that.

Come on, you're

bullshitting me,

right, pal?

What happened to Fred?

No worse than Edgar.

What happened

to Edgar?

You won't believe it.

Here, l need one

of those candy bars.

l don't believe this.

The phone is dead.

Walter, your phone

is dead !

l didn't do it.

Nestor,

what's happening?

Somebody killed old Fred.

What should we do?

What's going on?

Now, look, Val,

you gotta get to Bixby,

and you gotta get

the police up here.

And you gotta step on it.

Consider it stepped on.

Man, we decided

to leave this place

just one damn day

too late, you know?

Well, there's sure as hell

nothing to stop us now.

Everybody we know

between here and Bixby

is already dead.

Look out!

ls there some higher

force at work here?

l mean, are we asking

too much of life?

Where the hell

are these guys?

What are they doing?

Blasting?

Hey!

Where are you guys?

lt's not like there's

another road, a**hole!

Val ! Val !

Jesus!

l don't believe this!

You're hung up.

l am not!

You're hung up,

l tell you !

You're gonna burn

the clutch !

You know, you could

break an axle like that.

Could you shut up?

Hey, l don't need

to spend the night

out here.

Crybaby.

-Could it have been coyotes?

-No way.

No.

Coyotes didn't kill Fred.

Hey, it's Val and Earl.

They shouldn't

be here already.

Thought you two

were in Bixby by now.

You are never

gonna believe this.

Mom !

Oh, my God !

Oh, Burt, be careful.

Unreal.

Where'd you get it?

l didn't know

we had it.

lt's disgusting.

Some kind of snake?

Looks more like

an eel to me.

Eels live in the water,

don't they?

Big mother slug, maybe.

Don't touch !

Relax. lt's dead.

Hey, it must've grabbed us!

That's why the truck

stalled out.

Next time l tell you

l'm not hung up. . .

Hey, wait.

This stalled out your truck?

lt'd have to be one

strong son of a b*tch.

Stinks, too.

l'll give you boys

$5 for this.

$20.

Okay, $10!

$15.

Okay, $15.

Damn right, $15.

l don't believe you guys.

Could be a snake!

Some kind of mutation.

Yeah.

Whatever it is,

just one of these

couldn't eat up Fred

and his whole flock of sheep.

So you think

there are more

of them out there?

l'm dead. Let's put this

stuff up in the morning.

No.

We have to go to Bixby

in the morning.

The cinder blocks are in.

Oh, the cinder blocks.

Oh, my God !

Just keep looking

at that beautiful sky.

That's the sky that's gonna

be over our roof every night

when we're done.

What if we don't

finish the roof?

Then we can

look at the sky

all the time. Huh?

Oh, that damn thing.

Maybe it's time

we buy a new

generator, huh?

lt's gone!

What do you mean,

it's gone?

You sure this is

where it was?

lt was right here!

There's the cord.

Hold this.

Yeah, maybe the

ground caved in.

There's a lot of mines

and stuff around here.

Well, don't then.

You don't wanna fall in.

Let's go.

God, what is that stink?

You hear that?

Come on. Come on,

let's just go.

Let's go back to

town or something.

Please, Jim !

Maybe it's a geological

thing or something like

natural gas or a geyser.

They stink like that.

Remember in Yellowstone?

Jim !

Something's got me!

No, Jim, no!

Something's got me

down here!

Oh, Jim !

Oh, God ! Oh, God !

Get something !

Get something !

Get me out of here!

Jim !

Something's got me.

Oh, God !

Please get me out!

Help me!

Jim !

Oh, my God.

Mindy, smile.

Come on, honey.

Don't look so afraid.

lt's not gonna hurt you.

l promise.

Mindy, look up. Smile.

Come on.

Hold it.

Melvin, get out of there!

Old Chang, slick as snot,

and l ain't lying.

15 lousy bucks.

A man who plans ahead. . .

Look, we arm ourselves,

we set perimeters,

we stand guard.

Any of those snake

things show up here,

we make them extinct.

All right!

Come on, Burt,

get serious.

Yeah ! You make it

sound like a war.

What have you people

got against being prepared?

Where's the sugar?

Rambo.

Wait a minute.

Walter's got a CB radio.

Why aren't you calling

somebody in Bixby?

The police. . .

No. We can't reach

outside the valley

because of the mountains.

Melvin, you're next.

Come on. Sit down,

look scared.

-Okay.

-Yeah.

The phone's out.

The road's out.

We're on our own.

You two are just

loving it, aren't you?

Come on, Nancy.

Let's don't get personal

about this thing !

We gotta do something.

Hell, yes!

We are completely

cut off.

We got the cliffs

to the north.

Mountains to the east

and the west.

That's why Heather

and me settled here

in the first place.

Geographic isolation.

Well, there's gotta be

some way we can get help.

For God's sake,

this isn't the moon !

What are you gonna do,

walk the 38 miles to Bixby?

Hey, there's

Walter's saddle horses.

That's it.

You're welcome to them.

Somebody could

ride to Bixby.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

Who's best on a horse?

Walter, they

better be fast.

We don't wanna be stuck

on a couple of canners.

Those snake things

couldn't travel that fast.

Sh*t, for all you know,

they could fly.

Here, what do you want?

This colt or

Edgar's old rifle?

Rifle.

Hey, Earl.

Here's some Swiss cheese

and some bullets.

Thanks, Walter.

You guys all set?

Well, ready as

we'll ever be.

Heather and l are

gonna drive around.

We'll see if we can

find that college girl,

tell her to get her

ass back into town.

Good idea. We'll swing

by the doctor's place

and see if they went

into Bixby or not.

Hey, wait a minute, guys.

Y'all gonna have

to take something

that packs more of

a punch than that 30-30.

Why don't you take

one of our Browning Autos?

Or better than that,

why don't you just

take my Model 70?

lt's .375 H&H mag.

Thanks, Heather.

Well, l hope we

don't need to use it.

lt's got me!

-Melvin !

-Grow up!

Damn it, Melvin !

He's only kidding.

You came that close.

Too close.

No more games.

Melvin, one of these days

somebody's gonna

kick your ass.

Doctor?

Man, l hate

this sh*t.

Wait a minute.

The car's gone.

We just missed them,

that's all.

Where the hell's

the goddamn golden

oldie coming from?

What the hell's this?

You got me.

Okay, here's the plan.

We don't even stop.

We ride like hell.

Tonight we'll

keep right on going.

We'll walk the horses.

That is the plan.

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