The Franchise: 1990's Kevin Bacon-starring sci-fi comedy horror flick was a surprise critical and commercial hit, making more than four-times its $11 million budget and being a huge smash on home video. This led to a Bacon-less 1996 straight-to-video sequel (where the series has remained ever since), which was broadly acclaimed despite having its budget slashed to just $4 million. 2001's third film saw Michael Gross' sidekick character Burt Gummer become the new protagonist, and again, the film was mildly praised, largely for Gross' performance. A 2003 TV series even aired for 13 episodes before being cancelled, and then Tremors 4 arrived in 2004 as a prequel (in which Gross played Burt's great-grandfather). Again, incredulously, it received mixed-positive notices. How It Died: Eleven years after the last movie, we're back for Tremors 5: Bloodlines, again starring Gross who co-stars with...Jamie...Kennedy. If that's not the death knell for any series, then the poor reviews and a budget that's not even been announced should do it. If this is the best they could come up with after over a decade, it's tough to imagine anyone greenlighting a sequel anytime soon, and considering that Gross is already 68 years old, he probably won't have many more chances to play the role. As for the prospect of a Gross-less reboot, that's just not even worth thinking about. The creators should just be glad they got 5 movies out of it and let it stay dead.