Stampede Entertainment is the production company who brought you the Tremors Franchise and Heart and Souls. Individually the Stampede principals have experience in many other projects.
Storyboard Panel
Tremors 4 - THE ACTION BEGINS! Here's the actual first storyboard panel drawn by S.S. Wilson in preparing one of the exciting action sequences of Tremors 4. (Okay, later we hired a real storyboard artist to redraw it).
Ass Blaster Sketch & Maquette
Top view in flight - Flying fish/lizard wing.
Ass Blaster Sketch
Tremors 3 A. B. Color Scheme
A.B. in flight - wallpaper
A.B. in flight - wallpaper
Chang's Market - Wallpaper
Chang's Market - Wallpaper
Graboid Tour - wallpaper
Graboid Tour - wallpaper
Night in the junk yard
Night in the junk yard
Full Scale Graboid On Set
This is a pretty typical day out in the Mojave desert on Tremors. When it would get hot, Tom would jump behind the worm, lay down and just try to take it easy while the rest of the crew worked.
Setting up for a stage coach shot
Setting up for a stage coach shot
Camera track
Camera track
Rejection Water Tower
Rejection Water Tower
The Hotel Excelsior 1889
The Hotel Excelsior 1889. Set up for shot of townsfolk scurrying to meet the stage.
The Great White Worm
While producing the film Tremors 2: Aftershocks Stampede Entertainment and Universal also started developing Tremors as a TV series. The series premise was that, after their success in fighting the Graboids, Val and Earl would be sought out by the readers of tabloid newspapers, believers in UFO’s, etc. to battle other little-known creatures. This drawing is based on the original Graboid drawing from Amalgamated Dynamics. The idea was, Val and Earl discover there is one surviving Graboid. A unique albino (all white) creature, the wily worm was to appear off and on throughout the series, tormenting the guys who are never quite able to catch it. Eventually they develop a grudging respect for the beast. As all Tremors fans now know, the idea of the great white worm was introduced in Tremors 3: Back To Perfection.
AB flying
AB flying. You can see the cable he was sliding on.
Graboid mechanism
pit dug to house the mechanism which raises the Graboid head out of the ground
Graboid head
Graboid head out of the ground
Graboid on set - night
Graboid on set - night
Graboid Head
Graboid Head
Graboid on set
Graboid on set
Shrieker in the effects shop
Shrieker in the effects shop
Articulated Graboid On Set
This is one of the hero worms being readied for it's big closeup. It was buried in a ten foot deep pit where we had a four operators. By the end of the shoot those poor guys would come climbing out like coal miners covered in dust.
Camera on track
Camera on track
Setting up camera track
Setting up camera track
Action
S.S. Wilson calling "Action".
Setting up for the stage coach arrival
Setting up for the stage coach arrival
Punt Gun
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins director S.S. Wilson and actor Michael Gross (Hiram Gummer) holding the Punt gun used in the film.
S.S. Wilson on set
S.S. Wilson on set
Rejection Water Tower
Rejection Water Tower
Steam Tractor
Vintage Steam Powered Traction Engine - workhorse of the town in Tremors 4. Almost a hundred years old and it still works!
Excelsior Hotel, Rejection Nevada
Excelsior Hotel, Rejection Nevada
Graboid Falling Off Cliff
A good behind the scenes view of the setup where the miniature worm meets it's demise, it splatters on the floor of the canyon. That's Tom Woodruff up high on the scaffold manning the miniature worm.
Graboid on set - night
Graboid on set - night
El Blanco on break
El Blanco between takes on the series set in Mexico. Note the control cables and levers used by the effects guys to make him move.
El Blanco bites bad guy
El Blanco on set with actor getting eaten
Graboid in action
Graboid in action
