Dale’s Triple-Feature — Town Terrorizing Tentacles

Nobody wants to be groped or grabbed by a slimy tentacle

Dale Thomas
2 min readJan 4, 2021
Slither (2006)

This is part of a series in which I suggest three related movies to watch. You can find more information and the list of recommendations here.

Don’t you just love slimy, mutated, tentacled, Lovecraftian monstrosities? Here are three movies about remote towns that have to fend off an attack from such things.

Tremors (1990)

Tremors (1990)

Desert sharks with tentacle tongues terrorize a tiny town in Nevada. Don’t make a sound, that’s how they getcha!

Slither (2006)

Slither (2006)

A town in South Carolina is overrun by parasitic flesh-melting worms from space, controlled by a Lovecraftian villain.

Grabbers

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Dale Thomas
Dale Thomas

Written by Dale Thomas

Scifi writer, roboticist, and game developer, 2x Quora Top Writer. I write about writing speculative fiction, computer graphics, AI, evolution, and programming.

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