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The movie starts out with a disclaimer that it’s based on a true story. Mick comes into a small southern town to see a woman by the name of Geri. She’s all aflutter about his arrival and borrows a truck from a local man who owns a worm farm. Everything’s fine until Mick finds a (gas) earthworm in his egg cream, which the small town waitress didn’t even know how to make. Mick and Geri head off for a little fishing expedition with Geri’s friend Roger and Mick gets attacked by an earthworm. Apparently the town experienced a huge storm that knocked down the power lines. The worms in town were all affected by the surge of electricity and now they have a taste for blood…

TRIVIA

Early actors auditioning for the movie included Kim Basinger and Sylvester Stallone. What a different work that would have been.

THOUGHTS

This movie made me (pardon the pun) squirm big time. Thanks to this movie I’m not only afraid to eat spaghetti, but also afraid to take a shower. Hopefully I’ll fix the later problem soon, less my roommate start to complain. Jeff Liebermann writer and director of Squirm also did Blue Sunshine, which I didn’t realize until after I saw this one. I know a lot of people think this movie is horrible, but I don’t care because I actually dug it.

Squirm has a few scenes that really creeped me out, like when Roger’s attacked by the worms and when the worms start coming out of the showerhead. There were a few scenes that were laughable rather than scary and whenever large amounts of worms were shown, it looked like spaghetti.

I also ended up being pretty confused by the Geri/Mick relationship. He comes to town to shop for antiques, but he also really wants to see her. He seems to know her sister pretty well, but has never met her mother and has no idea about her life. They kiss one time throughout the whole movie and it only makes their relationship more confusing. Plus I have no clue why he’d want to go all that way just for her. Trust me, she’s no dish.

Long story short, I liked Squirm. I forgot I had it in my Netflix queue until it arrived in the mail, but it was a lot better than I expected. If you hate worms, you’ll really despise them after this.