I love this movie so much

The Worst Film Ever

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Intentionally campy nature-gone-wild film about killer mutant earthworms. Power lines come down during a storm causing thousands killer earthworms to surface and feast upon the locals. The story and characters are not all that compelling, but the film did have a ridiculous "Tremors" kind of vibe to it that was fun. I mean, how could you take seriously worms coming out of a shower head or digging their way out of a mans face? Those are both ridiculous scenes, but ridiculously memorable in the best sort of way. Don't expect suspense or thrills, but do expect some laugh out lout goofiness as well as some good creepy moments featuring massive amounts of actual slimy worms doing icky things.

And that about sums up how bad this 40 year old movie really is. It starts out OK with these nasty Southerners living in a small rural town in Georgia. It has that horror-feel to it, but then it just becomes really bad.Mick from New York, who is visiting his sad looking girlfriend Geri, finds a skeleton and try to tell the sheriff. But the moronic hill billy sheriff sees him as a big city troublemaker and instead of doing his job he keeps threatening to throw Mick in prison. Without ever doing it. When this joke of a sheriff and his girlfriend are eaten by worms, they get what they deserve.This movies biggest problem is not the extremely bad effects and that these ordinary size worms growl like lions when they attack and eat people (ridicoulus) it's that there isn't a single likable character in the movie. And it takes about 50 minutes before we see the first worm attack. And even by that time the movie remains boring for the remaining 40 minutes.As far as the whole town apparently has been eaten by the worms, the budget was early too small to actually show it. Which makes the ending when the power comes back on all the less believable. As far as gore goes, it's also really badly made.Don't believe the hype. This is bad. Really bad.

When Seventies Elton John goes to visit his girl way down somewhere in Virginia, he's all expecting some passionate loving (wait, that doesn't sound like Elton John at all), but instead gets surrounded by pink, wriggling slimy things instead (that sounds more like Elton John).What's happened, right, is that there was some sort of storm and the some electricity hit the ground and then all these worms (who were residing in a worm farm) all went a bit mental and start chowing down on the locals, none of whom in the slightest belief Elton John's theories (or even like him in the least, especially that sheriff with the simply bizarre haircut. You know, it's one of those nature on the loose deals, only this one manages to pick a pretty harmless creature. It's far too slow as well, what with Elton and his girl doing exciting things like checking dental records, going fishing and trying to convince the sheriff that something's wrong over and over and over again.The video cover to this one scared that crap out of me when I was young (when video shops existed), but sadly it didn't live up to it all. The wormface bit was good though, but that's it!

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.Millions of man-eating worms emerge out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals....The one thing to note about this movie, is that it features the geekiest hero ever to appear in a movie, and for the first half of the film, he goes on about egg creams.if you can get past this guy, the film isn't that bad, but it's cheaply made and looks decidedly dodgy in the final third.But one thing it isn't is boring, and this is where the film stands above other monster/killer animal movies of the late seventies.And some of the effects are quite good too. Obviously in some scenes you can tell it's just some stringy goo, but the character of Roger, who goes psycho for no reason, is really grotesque toward the end.Performances are average to say the best, and the ending will make you laugh, as it's absurd beyond the point of explanation.But if you are into these sort of films, you could do a lot worse.