Tremors II: Aftershocks (PG-13)
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This is the first direct-to-video sequel to Tremors. It came out in 1996, six years after the original movie. I saw it in 2021. I expect I liked it slightly less than the original movie, but I gave it the same rating that I gave the original, so maybe the difference is slighter than I thought.

An oil refinery in Mexico is being attacked by graboids, so they send someone to hire Earl Basset, who had become famous after the first movie's events, to come and kill the creatures. He's reluctant, despite needing the money, but he soon agrees. He's joined by an enthusiastic fan of his named Grady Hoover. They also get help from a geologist named Kate Reilly, who provides them with a seismograph to track the graboids. For the early part of the movie, it's extremely easy for them to kill a bunch of graboids (which we don't actually see, we just see the explosions). But eventually the graboids get harder to kill, so Earl calls in Burt Gummer for help. Burt is eager for something to do, since his wife had left him (for a somewhat amusing reason). They continue doing alright for awhile, until the graboids mutate into smaller, bipedal creatures that run around above ground, and detect people by their heat, rather than by sound. Then things get a lot more complicated. (The internet informs me that the new creatures are calles "shriekers," though I don't think anyone called them that in this movie.)

Anyway, I dunno what else to say. The movie was okay.