Kevin Bacon has climbed everywhere over the past five decades, from tumultuous teenage comedies (his debut, "Houseivotin House") to Hollywood blockbusters ("Apollo 13") and challenging indiet ("Woodsman", perhaps his boldest performance. Indeed, his roles were so diverse in so many genres that a whole game called a six -degree Kevin Bacon (you can try to beat the Oracle of bacon). However, there was a period in the eighties of the last century, when he did not go so well for a valuable actor, to the point that he thought that one of his favorite films could totally use his career.

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That film was Ron Underwood's "Tremores", a light, yet uncertain refund of the classical features of the 1950s creature. Placed in the petty desert city of Nevada of Perfection (population: 14), Bacon starred like Val Mackie, one half of the unfortunate handicrafts with his best friend, Earl Basset (Fred Ward). Their attempt to move on to better things is prevented when the sleeping Burg comes under a sudden and deadly attack of huge worm -like monsters, nicknames nicknamed "Graoids", throwing them into a struggle for survival with the other city.

The Tremores neatly balance the comedy with a gentle scares and benefits from a group of characters we love, playing from a charming B-list cast, including Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Victor Wong and Country Singer Reba McKenar in her first role. Working from the smart scenario of SS Wilson and Brent Maddock, debut director Anderwood routes the miraculous premise for all its potential and maintains things to move at a windy pace. It is one of those great comfort films I throw at some point every year or so, but it was not a great success when it first hit theaters in the 1990 landfill. The Tremori may have disappeared in ambiguity if he did not find a second life in the video rental stores, and the same thing can be said about Bacon, if the movie "Killer Worm" did not notice the change in his happy.

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Kevin Bacon had a quick start to his career, debuting in the surprise of Johnon Landis. "Animalivotinian house of the national lambon"And achieving another low-budget smash as one of the unfortunate teenagers on Friday the 13th.

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But Bacon's transition to the leading actor did not go as he hoped, and he suffered a series of apostles in the middle of the late 1980s. His happiness may have been summarized by his involvement with Johnon Hughes at the time. Bacon's bad running was broken by the fleeting camo in "Aircraft, Trains and Cars", and Hughes then threw him out in his next picture, "she has a baby." She became the first bomb of Hughes's directorial career, and the two consecutive Bacon films ("Criminal Law" and "The Great Image") to change the trajectory. Then they came "tremori". In an interview with the 2020 film about the film, Bacon admitted:

"To be brutally honest, I was running away from money and felt at the right kind of low point, in my career (...) After the" Footloose "came out, I had a series of leading roles that only bombarded (...) and felt that my career was really close to the end."

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In the early thirties with a baby on the road and other challenges in his personal life, the last thing the actor needed was another failure of his resume. The prospect of acting in a horror comedy about the underground creatures did not sound all promising at first. Although His hopes for "tremori" appeared on his first day of setHis initial wrong things about the movie "The bottom of the barrel" appeared justified when he attended the premiere in Los Angeles: "Yes, here, we go, I'm in another bomb." And that was exactly. "

The "tremores" were not Total Failure in box office, but still failed to use the earnings foreseen by Universal's suits. Producers have accused the marketing campaign for the poor performance of the film, especially the original trailer described by co-writer/producer Brent Madzdz as "Cringeworthy". Kevin Bacon also supports this term, calling the initial release "Disaster" and suggesting it is a tough film on the market because of its awkward position as a comedy-Horor Film.

Kevin Bacon does not deserve the "tremor" by preserving his career, but 1990 marked a turnaround, as it appeared in a big summer hit as part of the Flatliners ensemble. Key, the "tremores" did not end his career as he was afraid, and he thanked the blockbuster and a boom for renting the home from the early 1990s to save the film from oblivion:

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"Blockbuster was the biggest thing going (...) somehow, it kinda caught on in that world. You'd to the video store and they'd have ordered Ten Copies of It (...) It is no. They do not like it was try to have a video Rental Business (...) but i think there was a cumulative effect of the populity of that movie, to the point where, at this point, most people don't. wasn't a successful movie.

It is easy to see why the "tremor" found a natural video home. It's a pleasant crowd that hits the right ratio for quail-to-accountMaking it equally attractive to families with older children and adults who want a fun movie to go with beer and pizza on Friday night. Bacon praised the film's relativity for her lasting appeal, especially in the modern era of superhero blockbusters where the characters have the opportunity to do a lot. It's just a small movie for regular people in a very irregular situation; We can see each other in the characters and think, "Yes, it's probably how you would deal with it." Bacon continued to say:

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"I was very, very unprepared to be in the movie and very disappointed with the outcome of the way in the box office, but over time, it's something I love and that I am proud of (...) after all, time proved to be a good decision to play that part."

Bacon's career has gone by force over the next decade, greatly playing attractive roles in a series of hits, including "a few good men", "Apollo 13", "Spiri" and "Wild Things", while mixing things with the assured leading films like "Mixing Echo". He still rarely excludes our screens, but may be the movie "Killed Worm" that he really didn't want to do, and Kevin Bacon's quintessential film remains.