Corrected entry: When the station wagon is found buried, not only is the radio on but the headlights are as well. Given the attack occurred at night and it is now mid-morning and the fact that the car can't run underground, even the best car batteries can't last more than an hour.
Phixius
2nd Sep 2011
Tremors (1990)
Correction: It wasn't the car radio, it was a portable radio.
Correction: Battery power and battery life depend on the battery and not on the car it's in.
20th May 2010
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: When Rhonda has just dug a hole to bury the sensor, the shovel is spotless, but it should have at least been dusty from digging.
10th Mar 2008
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: Since Carson City is so close to Perfection (as evidenced in Tremors 4), why didn't Val and Earl make a run for there, instead of Bixby? Carson City was due South, whereas Bixby was to the Northwest, in the direction the graboids were coming from.
Correction: Because there's only one road out of town and it's blocked. They had to go off road, driving a big tractor dragging a trailer with four flat tires. Carson City is close, but Bixby is closer. That's all that matters to them. They figured the graboids couldn't touch them in the tractor and trailer so they didn't care where they were coming from.
15th Jan 2004
Tremors (1990)
Corrected entry: Val runs to save Mindy who is jumping on her pogo stick. When he snatches her off of it, the pogostick stays standing completly upright. The camera cuts to Val, Mindy and Mindy's mom. They have a bit of dialogue. It cuts back to the pogostick that's standing straight up, and the graboid sucks it into the ground. It would have had to have been standing for around 5 seconds before the graboid got to it, on its end and unsupported. (00:47:55)
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Correction: The best car batteries will last a lot more than an hour. I've left my lights on accidentally when I parked for work and found them still on 8 hours later. Car started up just fine too.
Phixius ★
In modern cars I would agree with you - but this car is almost 20 years old and the battery would not last more than an hour or so with both the radio and the headlights running.
jerimiah
Doesn't mean the battery is 20 years old.
The sound of the radio is not coming from the car. It's a small portable radio the Dr. Has in his car. You see it get turned on by accident when the Dr.'s wife kicks the radio during the attack.
BaconIsMyBFF
The car radio wasn't on. It was the transistor radio she knocked over in the back of the car when she climbed through.