“グライボイズの逆襲”
砂漠の町を恐怖のどん底に叩き込んだ人喰い怪物・グラボイズが、メキシコの油田に突如として出現。困り果てた石油会社は、7年前にグラボイズと死闘を繰り広げた男アールに退治を依頼。報奨金目当てで依頼を引き受けたアールはグラボイズ退治に乗り出すが…。
製作費: $4,000,000 (6億円)
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監督: S.S. Wilson
脚本: Brent Maddock / S.S. Wilson / Ron Underwood
音楽: Jay Ferguson
制作: Nancy Roberts / Christopher DeFaria / Brent Maddock
撮影監督: Virgil L. Harper
制作会社: Stampede Entertainment
The Shriekers! After the huge love and deserved critical praise for Ron Underwood’s 1990 film, Tremors, this in spite of poor box office and lead man Kevin Bacon disowning the film at the time, sequels were always likely. And so it proved. Fred Ward and Michael Gross return from the first film and are joined by Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver and Marcelo Tubert. Underwood hands over the directing reins to S.S. Wilson and co-produces instead, while music is by Jay Ferguson and cinematography by Virgil Harper. In spite of adding some new beasties into the mix, it all feels very same old same old, only without the funny script and any sense of peril. What made Tremors so strong was that even as it had its tongue in its cheek, homaging 1950s creature features with a proud sense of being, it was still scary and suspenseful. The characters there gave a believable sense of danger and fright, here it’s just done for laughs, we never once think the principal players are remotely scared of the Graboids and their offspring. Story has advanced for Earl (Ward) and Burt (Gross), where this time it’s Earl who is romancing (Shaver under used but lovely) and Burt is all on his lonesome as his Mrs (Heather played by Reba McEntire) has left him on account of his love of war and weapons, a joke which grows old very fast here. Still, when the action isn’t of the budget CGI kind, it’s well staged and good fun, though Wilson’s comic sequence shooting is flat, while Ward is a strong enough actor to carry the film to keep it above average. Passably enjoyable for fans of creature feature movies without ever being an essential viewing choice. 5/10
