Tremors 4: The Legend Begins

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) — watch online on iFILM — is a horror-western prequel directed by S.S. Wilson, set in 1889 Nevada, a century before the original film's events. Michael Gross returns to the franchise, this time playing Hiram Gummer, great-great-grandfather of survivalist Burt.

Silver mines in the Nevada desert go quiet after seventeen workers die without explanation. Mine owner Hiram, a refined Eastern gentleman with no taste for gunfights, rides into the emptied town and hires a legendary gunslinger known as Black Hand Kelly to deal with whatever is killing his profits. What lives beneath the desert floor — creatures that fans of the series will recognise immediately — proves harder to stop with 19th-century weapons than anything Burt ever faced. Director Wilson uses the Western setting to strip away modern firepower and put the monsters back on top. Stream Tremors 4 online on iFILM.