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‘Tremors 7’ Already Planned and the Kevin Bacon TV Show Won’t Stop It

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Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell is the sixth film in the Tremors movie franchise. Not bad for a series that started in 1990. Michael Gross, who plays graboid hunter Burt Gummer, spoke with Bloody Disgusting about the new Tremors and revealed a seventh film is already in development.

“Believe it or not, Universal wants to talk about a seventh,” Gross said.

“Wow, all I can say is who would have guessed in 1989 when I filmed the first one that this would have these sorts of legs? It’s kind of amazing to me.”

A Cold Day in Hell sees Burt fight graboids in arctic climates. Gross has some ideas for taking Burt to other far off places.

“It’s just the beginning but I have a very strong idea about it,” Gross said. “They tell me I’m not at liberty to discuss it right now but it will also be, if it even happens, this is ridiculously premature, they just like to talk about these things in case they want to pull the trigger quickly on something. So they’re actually preparing and talking to writers. That’s far from meaning it’s ever going to be made, but it’s also putting Bert in a place we’ve never seen him before. More personal vulnerability along with the monsters. I just like to put Burt in uncomfortable situations.”

Gross’s costar in the last two Tremors, Jamie Kennedy, hadn’t gotten the memo Gross did.

“No, are they making it?” Kennedy said. “That’s amazing if that’s true. I know that to see how this movie’s going, it’s been going really well. People really like it. We’ve been promoting the hell out of it so hopefully if it keeps going then we would do another one.”

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Universal Cable is also developing a Tremors TV series which will see Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward reprise their roles from the first movie. Gross said his franchise will continue separately.

“No, I’ve not heard a thing from that I truly do think Kevin is doing his own thing,” Gross said. “Universal is so big, they have one part of the company doing one thing and another part of the company doing another. That is truly almost in competition with itself. Can you think of a better example of a conglomerate? It’s so big, one hand is doing something separate from the other hand. So that’s just the nature of the beast. This has nothing to do with me. I was never asked to be a part of it. I have no idea what’s going on. Just what I hear. I just know Kevin wants to revisit that character all those years later and I haven’t the slightest idea.”

Gross probably has Bacon to thank for turning down Tremors 2: Aftershocks. Ward was still in that but it allowed Burt to become more of the central character. By Tremors 3: Back to Perfection it was Gross’s franchise.

“That wouldn’t necessarily have been so had Kevin Bacon wanted to come back and do another, because I think there was some talk about it,” Gross said. “But I think I fell into that role. Naturally, he’s quirky and fun, so people fell in love with him. So what a blessing because I thought it was comic genius from the very beginning, his comic paranoia and his obsessive-compulsive disorder is just hilarious.”

When Burt’s son Travis was introduced in Tremors 5: Bloodlines, Kennedy had no idea he’d be back for Tremors 6.

“No, I had no idea,” Kennedy said. “We did it. They were like we’re gonna reboot it. I think the movie became better and bigger than people realized. [Director] Don [Michael Paul] had a vision. Me and Michael had this chemistry and it worked. People really like that movie, so the studio liked it and this movie really takes it to the next evolution of it.”

Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell is on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital May 1.

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‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Shambles Onto Blu-ray in April With Audio Commentary and Deleted Scenes

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The horror-comedy Lisa Frankenstein is headed home to physical media, with the film zombie-walking its way onto DVD and Blu-ray from Universal on April 9, 2024.

Directed by Zelda Williams and written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body), Lisa Frankenstein will also be available for a lower price on Digital beginning March 29.

Special Features include:

  • Audio commentary by director Zelda Williams
  • An Electric Connection featurette
  • Resurrecting the ‘80s featurette
  • A Dark Comedy Duo featurette
  • 5 deleted scenes
  • Gag reel

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting,” Billed as a coming-of-rage tale, Lisa Frankenstein instead offers a celebration of outcasts and weirdos.”

“It makes for a sugary sweet, almost wholesome effort held together by a trio of infectiously winsome performances,” Meagan’s review continued. She added, “As a celebration of teen girls and outcasts who just want to be loved, Lisa Frankenstein ultimately charms.”

Kathryn Newton (Freaky) and Cole Sprouse (“Riverdale”) lead the cast for Focus Features, and the new film is rated “PG-13” for “bloody images and sexual material.”

Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher), Liza Soberano (Alone/Together), Joe Chrest (Stranger Things) and Henry Eikenberry (The Crowded Room) also star.

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In Lisa Frankenstein, “Set in 1989, the film follows an unpopular high schooler who accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse during a lightning storm and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dreams using the broken tanning bed in her garage.”

Here’s the full official plot synopsis: “A coming of RAGE love story about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness… and a few missing body parts along the way.”

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