Tremors Timeline: 30 Years of Creature-Feature 🐛

If you thought Tremors was just about giant worms, think again. Over the course of seven movies, one television show, and 30 years of creature-feature goodness, the series has featured multiple government conspiracies, gunslinging cowboys, and entire families of monster hunters. In many ways, it really is a modern American epic.

Still, there's a lot of Tremors history to keep track of, and you probably have some questions you want cleared up before you dive into Burt Gummer's latest adventure, Tremors: Shrieker Island. What happened to Valentine McKee, Kevin Bacon's character from the first movie? What is El Blanco? What, exactly, are those asses blasting?

Whether you're new to the franchise or just need a quick refresher, here's everything that's happened in the Tremors universe so far.

Nobody knows where the graboids came from or how long they've been around. Given that graboid eggs can sit underground unhatched for centuries, they're very difficult to track. Still, evidence indicates that the monsters have been living underground since prehistory. A special report from the Department of the Interior suggests that the creatures evolved in ancient times from an animal similar to the cuttlefish.

The first officially recorded graboid appearance, however, is only a little over a century old. In 1889, 17 miners in a small Nevada town known as Rejection died after the heat from a local hot spring forced a clutch of graboid eggs to hatch early, unleashing the predators on the community. The owner of the silver mine, Hiram Gummer, hired a gunslinger named Black Hand Kelly to take care of the problem. The graboids killed Kelly, but not before he taught the uptight Gummer a few valuable lessons about firearms.

After that, Gummer decided to clean up the mess himself. Once the dust cleared, Rejection's residents covered up the attacks in order to keep new settlers from fleeing their community. Gummer himself settled in town and began what would turn out to be a generational hobby: collecting guns.

Secret origins | 0:00
The incursions begin | 2:08
Monster evolution | 3:36
Keeping it in the family | 5:06

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