Squirm (1976)

It is weird to watch a movie made the year you were born and know that the old people in it are probably dead now. It is even weirder when that movie is about killer earthworms. Telling the tale of an outbreak of murderous earthworms in the south due to downed power lines, Squirm is really, really terrible. It is terrible in that awesome Mystery Science Theater 3000 way that is as unintentionally hilarious as it is unintentionally frightening. It is always awesome when you have a monster that is comprised completely of stock footage or you can use props from a bait shop. I think the budget on the movie must have been about $12 if you assume that the skeleton used was a loaner. The dialogue in this movie was priceless from one character shouting ‘ELECTRICITY!’ while having an epiphany as to why the worms are eating people to another character shoving the hero into a pit and saying ‘Now YOU’LL be the worm face!’ almost every line and line delivery is comedy gold. I do wonder why our hero insisted on calling his drink of choice an Egg Cream instead of a chocolate soda since no one in the south had apparently ever heard of an Egg Cream. I guess that was just how the screenwriters were showing he was a worldly New Yorker.

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