With some science fiction, it’s hard to decide when things officially cross over into the territory of self-parody. While there are obvious parodies like Spaceballs and loving parodies like Galaxy Quest, the category of sci-fi movies, or sci-fi adjacent movies that someone parody a new genre that the movie itself is creating, are basically unheard of. That is, except for Tremors.
When this 1990 film dropped, it basically invented a new kind of horror movie. Before Tremors, you could kind of figure out what a tongue-in-cheek monster movie looked and felt like. After Tremors, it became less clear. And that’s because Tremors invented its own subgenre, in which other slightly funny monster/sci-fi films could only be compared against it.
