Friday, July 8, 2022

Squirm (1976)

Part of the 1970s wave of animal attack films, but in this case even more weird than usual, but also rather more compelling too.

A storm has bought down the electric lines in rural Georgia, the electricity flows into the Earth and brings millions of meat eating worms to the surface! City boy Mick (Don Scardino) is in town to see his local girlfriend Geri (Patricia Pearcy). Being a smart ass from Noo Yoick and therefore not a hick he knows that something strange is up already (of course) though the strangely smug Sheriff (Peter MacLean) won't hear anything about it...

Things really start to deteriorate when the somewhat odd Roger (RA Dow) has worms fly up into his face and literal masses of worms appear everywhere, eating people left right and centre. Mick has to try and save Geri and her family and fight a strangely zombified Roger...

Truthfully this film is a total mess, but a glorious one all the same. It makes little sense and at times the red necks are as scary and dangerous as the worms. The film is full of cheese, strange characters, gore and stereotypes. It is actually pretty great... somehow.