Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell

Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell is a 2018 horror sci-fi film that went straight to video. Directed by Don Michael Paul, it marks the sixth installment in the Tremors monster movie series. It came out on DVD, Blu-ray, and Netflix on May 1, 2018.

The story begins in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, where a team of young researchers gathering ice core samples from glaciers gets killed by a Graboid. After brushing off a tax agent, Burt Gummer and his son Travis Welker are called in by Dr. Rita Sims and Valerie McKee, a scientist and the daughter of the original Valerie McKee from the first film. Their plane gets attacked by an Ass-Blaster, but they reach the facility. There, they find that Arctic heat has made the area perfect for Graboids. Burt suspects their neighbors at DARPA are developing bioweapons from the creatures. When an Ass-Blaster hits the facility, Burt saves a researcher but collapses from an episode. He learns he’s infected by a parasite from Graboid venom, picked up years ago when he was inside one, and needs antibodies from a live Graboid to survive.

As Graboids keep killing people, some of the group try to move from the lab to the generator area, where pilot Mac is fixing the plane and facility manager Swackhamer has set up a makeshift underground electric fence. Others head for the communications tower to shut off a drill that’s running automatically. After his own team is attacked, DARPA agent Cutts joins Burt’s group, explaining they wanted the melted water, not bioweapons. He agrees to Burt and Travis’s terms: the government will remove tax liens on their place in Perfection and exempt them from property taxes. The group traps a Graboid in a storage container, spears it in place, cuts off its front tentacles, and Travis reaches into its mouth with a syringe to draw venom from a gland sac. This venom saves Burt. Cutts gives them the paperwork freeing them from taxes, and they blow up the last Graboid before Cutts can think about using it as a weapon.

The cast includes Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, the last resident of Perfection, Nevada; Jamie Kennedy as his son Travis B. Welker, a filmmaker; Tanya van Graan as Dr.