Tremors: Shrieker Island is the seventh movie in the Tremors franchise, following Burt Gummer as he leads a team of scientists in a fight against genetically enhanced graboids unleashed on a remote island for a trophy hunt. This new installment to the series keeps the same tone and feel of the rest of the series while trying some new things never seen before in a Tremors movie.
As a whole, Tremors follows a group of survivors fighting against giant subterranean worms and the various different forms they take through the stages of their life cycle. Since Tremors 2, Burt Gummer, played by Michael Gross, has been the main star of the series, using his survival training and stockpile of weapons to help his companions fight off the graboids and survive, although often reluctantly.
Offering some new ideas and twists on the traditional Tremors formula, Shrieker Island is the first to feature quite a few major changes from the rest of the series, including a much more horror-centered tone, intentional breeding of graboids and genetic modification, and the main obstacle being a human villain.
While most horror movie franchises would be expected to dwindle by the seventh movie, Tremors: Shrieker Island shows how to succeed where other franchises fail, and is a fresh and satisfying installment in the franchise. It delivers the same familiar tone and feel as the rest of the movies in the series while also trying some new things and keeping the audience engaged with fresh story elements.
The first major difference that Tremors: Shrieker Island brings to the series is that it features far less comedic moments than other entries in the series, leaning much more into horror. The movie focuses heavily on the conflict between characters and the fear the begins to build as the graboids grow increasingly out of control and continue picking people with no sign of being successfully stopped. Additionally, while other movies in the Tremors franchise feature human adversaries, Tremors: Shrieker Island is the first to really bring a human to the forefront of the action as the main villain of the story. More often people are just there to make it more difficult to hunt the graboids, while in Shrieker Island, Bill, played by Richard Brake (Mandy), is in direct opposition to the protagonists.
Bill is the owner of Avex-Bio Tech, but in his spare time enjoys trophy hunting on his private island. In search of the biggest, most dangerous game, Bill has genetically modified and released graboids onto the island as part of his next big trophy hunt. He’s also singularly obsessed with the hunt and even when it becomes clear that the graboids are too much for the team, he refuses to allow Burt and his group to try and stop the hunt and kill the graboids.
This where another major difference with Shrieker Island comes in: this is the first time graboids have been genetically enhanced, and also the first time the graboids have been able to swim. While Bill initially assures the troubled wildlife researchers who serve as the protagonists of the film that the graboids cannot swim, they’re land-locked to the island, this is obviously not the case.
Finally, the last way that Shrieker Island differs from the rest of the movies in the Tremors franchise is that it kills off a main character. In every other movie through the series, characters simply move away from the main story line and might be mentioned, but they’re never killed off. However, in Shrieker Island, Burt Gummer dies sacrificing himself for the rest of the characters as he led the queen graboid to her death. While this could be the end of the Tremors franchise, the door is still open for a new installment, and based on the success that was made with Tremors 7, it’s clear they could still do a great job with one more movie, if the studio wants to do that. Regardless, Tremors: Shrieker Island is a satisfying and highly successful addition to the series and will make a great ending for Tremors if that’s what’s ultimately decided.
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