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Squirm (1976) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jeff Lieberman

Written By:
Jeff Lieberman

Actors:
Don Scardino ..... Mick
Patricia Pearcy ..... Geri Sanders
R.A. Dow ..... Roger Grimes
Jean Sullivan ..... Naomi Sanders
Peter MacLean ..... Sheriff Jim Reston
Fran Higgins ..... Alma Sanders
William Newman ..... Quigley
Barbara Quinn ..... Sheriff's Girl
Carl Dagenhart ..... Willie Grimes
Angel Sande ..... Millie
Carol Jean Owens ..... Lizzie
Kim Iocouvozzi ..... Hank
Walter Dimmick ..... Danny
Leslie Thorsen ..... Bonnie
Julia Klopp ..... Mrs. Klopp

Synopsis:

One of the most original and entertaining of the revenge-of-nature films that characterised mid-1970s American horror, Squirm begins with a pylon being downed by a thunderstorm, sending millions of volts into the wet, conductive mud, which naturally gives hundreds of thousands of its wriggly inhabitants an insatiable hunger for human flesh. And since the accident has also inconveniently cut off the electricity to Fly Creek, Georgia, its population could hardly be more vulnerable when the sun goes down. Houses can be barricaded against most intruders, but what happens when they're small enough to get into the water supply? Writer-director Jeff Lieberman (who also made the cult classics Blue Sunshine and Just Before Dawn) achieves a near-perfect blend of knowing wit and good old-fashioned scares, with make-up genius Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) on hand for some of the memorably disgusting special effects.

At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.

Slightly tongue-in-cheek horror film about carnivorous worms brought to the surface by a fallen electrical wire that sends millions of volts of electricity into the ground near the vicinity of a sleepy fishing village in the US state of Georgia.

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