Tremors

In the rural town of Perfection, Nevada, a sense of unease settled over its residents as a series of strange and ominous events unfolded. Strange holes pockmarked the town's landscape, and a bizarre, seemingly unexplained tremor had been felt by all who lived and breathed in this desolate desert community. For Val McKee, the local hardware store owner, and his on-again, off-again friend Earl Bassett, a strange obsession had taken hold - an obsession that would eventually threaten their very survival. A nomadic Valentine-like, Earl had arrived in Perfection seeking work, but instead found himself trapped in the small, isolated town with no money, no prospects, and no reprieve. The only friend he had was his lonely friend Val, with whom he had an unspoken camaraderie. Their lives changed forever with the arrival of two earth scientists, Rhonda and Dr. Earl's friend Stuart, in search of oil. Their search, however, started shifting gear once the residents noticed some unusual holes. It was then that a major event shook Perfection, marking the beginning of a bloodbath of titanic proportions. The "Graboids," as they were called by the residents, were gargantuan, subterranean creatures unearthed from a long-dormant, Pliocene-era subterranean world. Reaching up to twenty-one feet in length, these monstrous, worm-like predators with hydraulic-powered limbs and aggressive nature were bound to wreak havoc on the quiet town. Graboids hunted their prey from beneath the surface of the ground. Graboids hunted based on vibrations, but something inside these creatures indicated the existence of something special and they were more of intelligent and cunning nature than its prehistoric counterparts. Among the earliest casualties were the workers Stuart had brought to town. They stumbled into the bottomless pit in town while going to extract the subterranean hole samples without much knowledge. Val, with a small group of townsfolk, including Melvin Plug, a cantankerous old man from town, decided to take matters into their own hands. Armed with hunting rifles and explosives, they launched a desperate and ultimately futile assault on the subterranean terror, but only managed to trigger a wrath of graboids like nothing they could envision. Subsequently realising the town needed saving, an eclectic band of residents - a seemingly meek but eventually fearsome widowed woman Judith, and oddball handyman Burt with his surprisingly large guns in his storage - all came forward to protect Perfection from being picked clean bone by these living time-capsules. Other residents met their demise at the massive beasts as blood poured across the sand all over Perfection. Earl, attempting to get away and find him a new start, found a deadly alliance when surviving together the numerous graboids attacks he came together with Valerie ultimately on one happy love day they both finally end up saving themselves. As the survivors in town face a desperate fight for survival, Val came to an out of the blue realization - these creatures must eat underground. The group hatched a scheme, where the explosives will be thrown in the crevice in front of graboids' lair followed with the intense assault of the remaining homes next to it. However, time and again, graboids devoured it all. Meanwhile, an army soldier, Melvin Plug’s friend in his hometown, Hert Fitzgerald from afar had been engaged with all the ground and he knew that two are with their army they'd later set an extreme example that can lead to new fear i.e. the subterranean tunnel dug by these men became by graboids at all. To keep them in line, val made call to Burt Geller in town. An instant unexpected attack the residents of perfection took after realisation took over Perfection after what in less than an hour town after was finally 'Graboids' ground swarms lost on them.