Tremors 5: Bloodlines(Review)

Okay we arrived at Part 5 in the Tremors franchise known as Tremors 5: Bloodlines. This is where the quality of the films starts to get to where it’s bad but still not a complete trainwreck. There are some redeeming qualities. Some.

The story takes our lovable Burt Gummer to the plains of Africa. He has his own podcast now called The Survivalist where he talks about his survival techniques and even gives us a quick recap in case we forget the other 4 movies exist or for those just joining in.

He is joined by a partner Travis Welker and at one point you might be saying is he related to Burt? The movie does beat us over the head before finally revealing through plot contrivances that yes these two are father and son. Not a spoiler as it is spelled out for you.

The Assblasters and Graboids rear up their ugly heads and they say oh they been mutated. Okay but still shitty design choice. CGI does no favors here. Graboids launch themselves twirling around and around before swallowing their prey. Oh and the new gimmick is now Graboid mouth tentacles can detach themselves and act independently.
As it turns out the reason why they are attacking people is because they want their egg back. We start to realize how protective the Graboid species are of their young.

Oh let’s not skim over how this movies rips off Jurassic Park with a scene that takes place in a kitchen. Just replace Raptors with Assblasters. Otherwise its exactly the same.. I’m sure it was like you can copy our notes just change it up a bit. But you can still tell.

With Burts help along with Travis as well, they defeat the Graboids and Assblasters. We get an ending scene that shows father and son go off on new adventures with their podcast.

Other than the wackyness..if you can make it through the scene of Burt in a cage acting crazy and making weird facial expressions without dying of bewildered laughter, you are a stronger person than me. But other than that, it wasn’t that great. Half the movie it’s mostly Burt and son interacting with the locals or long shots of dirt biking.

We still get the humor, we still get explosive deatsh..lots of blood and other unidentified goop. The story, I guess it made some sense. But was this really necessary? That’s the question.

And nope this isn’t the end yet, nope in part 6, we get frosty.

Till next time, stay scared!
-Tha Thrilla-