Squirm
1976 · Movie · R · 92 min · ★ 5.0 · 32% critics
After a brutal storm knocks down power lines, electricity surges into the soaked ground of a small Southern town and drives local worms into a violent frenzy. As the community loses power and panic spreads, a visiting outsider and a few residents try to understand what’s happening before the swarms reach them.
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Details
- Years
- 1976
- Release date
- 1976-07-30
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 32/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 (128 votes)
- Budget
- $470,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a ’70s “nature attacks” oddity with a creepy Southern vibe, occasional laughs, and lots of wriggly gross-out moments; Not for you if you need nonstop scares or tight plotting like The Final Terror.
Pros: squirmy creature chaos; Southern small-town mood; memorably gross moments | Cons: slow first half; uneven acting; silly premise for some
Themes
- small town
- jealousy
- love triangle
- obsession
- light
- flooding
- georgia
- rural area
- power outage
- missing person
- worms
- human skeleton
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Don Scardino
as Mick
Patricia Pearcy
as Geri Sanders
- RD
R.A. Dow
as Roger Grimes
Jean Sullivan
as Naomi Sanders
Peter MacLean
as Sheriff Jim Reston
- FH
Fran Higgins
as Alma Sanders
William Newman
as Quigley
- BQ
Barbara Quinn
as The Sheriff's Girl
- CD
Carl Dagenhart
as Willie Grimes
- AS
Angel Sande
as Millie
Directed by Jeff Lieberman