Actually, we feel we’ve shown, or implied, that graboids hunt a wide range of things.  In Tremors Miguel mentions some of his cattle are missing, and they eat Old Fred’s sheep.   In Tremors 2, the graboids eat a howling coyote (off screen) while Earl and Grady listen.    But graboids are pretty rare, and their interactions with humans relatively infrequent, so we feel, no, they haven’t learned, as a species, that humans are potentially dangerous.  Fans often ask about graboids coming to big cities, but they’d be very confused by all the constant noise and would be unable to hunt effectively, so would likely choose to avoid any urban environment.

We don’t control the rights to the franchise.  But you may have have seen online (Feb 2023) that Kevin Bacon has publicly stated his interest in doing something new with Tremors.  That’s a change from how he felt about the movie earlier in his career, so we guess one could say anything might happen.

We are surprised that Universal seems to allow anyone to show any part of the movies for free all the time.  We don’t own the rights, so that’s their call.   But we are huge fans of Kill Count and thought they did an awesome job of both making fun of, and giving tons of off-beat trivia about the movies.

No.  Audiences have gotten used to that and, we suppose, expect it these days.  But we are of an earlier filmmaker generation and made Tremors just the way we wanted it.  We still like the horror-comedy balance we created.

At first we were going to say, no, that didn’t happen.  But when we examined the history we built into Tremors 4, we had to admit: Walter is a descendant of the original store’s owners, and Miguel is probably related to Juan Pedilla, and Burt did in fact inherit money from his grandfather Hiram’s silver mine.  So, while we think Burt definitely lived other places and did other things (before becoming a prepper and returning), it’s possible he did spend time as a kid in Perfection!  You changed our minds!

Technically, there is only one type of graboid, the large worm-like creature.  It starts out as an egg, which must be kept warm in order to hatch.  I grows to its full size of around 30 feet fairly quickly, but is pretty deadly even as a “baby” graboid.   After a time, and for reasons still a bit unclear, graboids then go through a transformation.  They metamorphose into much smaller shriekers (Tremors 2) that literally eat their way out of the parent worm, killing it.  These hermaphroditic critters procreate quite rapidly and can become a dangerous carnivorous herd.  But at some point, shriekers undergo a second metamorphosis, changing into assblasters (Tremors 3), a winged version capable of launching itself and gliding.  Each assblaster carries one egg and seeks out a appropriate spot to lay it, usually in or near naturally warm places like volcanic hot springs.  It is unclear how long the eggs then lay dormant before hatching.

It may seem like graboids pursue only humans in the movies, but in fact we tried to imply that they do hunt other prey.  Miguel’s cattle.  Old Fred’s sheep. The coyote in Tremors 2.  As to the second point, graboids would avoid cities just due to the sheer noise level.  It would be impossible for them to isolate and attack anything when there’s a steady cacophony of cars, trucks, cycles, pedestrians, etc. coming from all directions.

We are aware that this has been accomplished in certain rare circumstances, but it is a long and difficult legal process even to attempt it, so it isn’t something we feel we want to put much effort into.  We’re all busy with other projects.

We are very proud of the music in Tremors 1-4, and would love for that to happen.  But Universal Studios controls all rights.  As far as we know they have no plans to release sound track versions.

We admit we have not watched all the, tributes, clips, first-time-views etc that proliferate on YouTube.  That said, since you mention it, we at Stampede were all quite impressed with Dead Meat’s Kill Count episodes on the first four Tremors.  They cover the movies in extraordinary detail, with much (mostly accurate) trivia and very clever writing/editing.  Fully entertaining in their own right.

No. We love the fairly family friendly niche we fell into.

The graboid life cycle is quite unusual. Graboids (the large worm form in Tremors 1) grow from large eggs. They fairly rapidly achieve full size and from that standpoint might be considered the adults of the species. But in fact they are technically more akin to larvae in other creatures.  After a time, and it’s not clear what triggers this event, graboids slow and die and burst open, being eaten from within by several shriekers, much smaller bipedal creatures whose only purpose is to eat as much as possible and multiply as fast as possible (through non-sexual spontaneous hermaphroditic reproduction).  They were featured in Tremors 2.  Any shrieker that survives long enough eventually forms a cocoon from which emerges a winged animal dubbed an Ass Blaster by Jodi Chang of Perfection (Tremors 3). ABs can glide long distances after launching themselves into the air via a blast of reactive chemicals fired from their hind quarters, hence the graphic name. They are “born” with a graboid egg already inside, and as quickly as possible they seek out appropriate places to lay it, primarily areas with  geothermic activity (like hot springs). When graboids hatch from the eggs, the cycle starts anew.

We always thought of Nancy as a hippie when we created the characater.  Marcia just played that side up a bit more, or in a different way, than Charlotte.

Well, an old screenplay adage says characters are best when they are in conflict. But Nancy grew out the hippies and “flower children” we knew in our generation (1960s). We just liked the idea that she’s always a little Pollyanna, is anti-violence, believes in things like pyramid power, etc.  Sorry you don’t like her, but we always felt she’s another sort of person who might end up out in isolated Perfection — a great opposite of Burt!