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Totally Awesome Character: Burt Gummer

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Tremors is a movie that your mind hides from you. You’ll forget about it for years at a time, but on a rainy sunday it’ll be on ITV2 and you’ll find yourself watching the whole thing, looking it up on IMDB and considering buying the box set of all the movies. Yes – there are four. A series and a fifth movie are planned.

Kevin Bacon is pretty cool and strangely likable (for Kevin Bacon) and Fred Ward provides a gruff comic foil, but the best thing about Tremors (apart from the brilliantly named Graboids) is one Burt Gummer, played by the higly underrated Michael Gross.

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Totally Awesome Character: Clarence Boddicker

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In the first of a semi-regular series, we look at the supporting characters that make the movie. The underrated cult heroes who truly deserve the spotlight.

It’s no secret I’m a big Robocop fan. I quote the movie regularly and often inappropriately and have been known to shout down anyone who claims there is a better film. However, the eponymous cyborg isn’t the best thing in it. Not by a long shot. And not even ED-209 can hold a candle to one of the most amazing characters in action movie history – the one and only Clarence Boddicker.

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