QDo the creatures have a name?
AWalter and Melvin suggest several names such as Graboid, Suckoid, and Snakeoid, and they also refer to the creatures at various times as Stumpy. Val later says the name Graboid when they are all stuck on the rocks. In Tremors II, however, Earl says they officially named them Graboids in Walter's memory. Promotional material for the Sci-Fi channel gave them the scientific name "Caederus mexicana."
QHow many people live in Perfection?
AIn the beginning of the movie, the population sign says that 14 people live in Perfection. Including Val and Earl, there's survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his wife Heather (Reba McEntire), Nancy Sterngood (Charlotte Stewart) and her pogostick-jumping daughter Mindy (Ariana Richards), shopkeeper Walter Chang, (Victor Wong), teenager Melvin Plug (Robert Jayne), town doctor Jim Wallace (Conrad Bachmann) and his wife Megan (Bibi Besch), sheep farmer Old Fred (Michael Dan Wagner), cattle rancher Miguel (Tony Genaro), Nester (Richard Marcus), and Edgar Deems (Sunshine Parker). However, if Melvin lives with his parent(s), then it should be either 15 or 16. Of the possibilities: (a) either Fred and Edgar or Jim and Megan live too far away to be actual residents of Perfection, (b) Jim and Megan are not yet residents of Perfection, since they are just building their house, (c) Melvin's parents abandoned their son for whatever reason and no longer live there, or (d) the sign is simply out of date.
QWho are Melvin's parents?
AIn an earlier draft of the screenplay, his parents were uncaring towards him and often abandoned him to go gambling in Las Vegas. In a deleted scene, the characters briefly mention that his parents are out gambling in Las Vegas again. His parents were probably on such a trip during the movie.
Share this
