Squirm
Squirm is a 1976 film from the USA, directed by Jeff Lieberman, running 92 minutes. reelscum files it under natural horror.
- Year
- 1976 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- Jeff Lieberman
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
Defined in the glossary: Natural horror
Electrified worms in Georgia. Rick Baker's early effects are the draw.
A downed power line electrifies the wet Georgia soil and drives the local earthworms into a flesh-burrowing frenzy, and the film wrings surprising tension out of the least threatening creature imaginable. Rick Baker's early effects, worms erupting from a man's face, are the reason it endures.
Jeff Lieberman directs it with a genuine sense of rural unease, and the slow build to the worm-flooded finale is better than the premise deserves. It later became a favourite target of Mystery Science Theater.
More effective than a killer-worm movie has any right to be.
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