Every small community has a town crazy or eccentric. Most keep to themselves and don’t bother anybody or anything. Herman Umgar is one such fellow. Herman is of German decent and has a few minor physical flaws, nothing big just a club foot and a rather nappy appearance and all he likes to do is stay on his little piece of property and take care of his worms. You see, Herman can communicate with worms, and he takes great care of his friends as well, each worm has a name, a little house and all the comforts that someone would shower upon a dog or cat. Herman will also snack upon a dozen worms or so from time to time, but he does take care of them at least. This is until a corrupt mayor tries to force Herman out of his home, so he can build a resort. Not one to be pushed around, Herman and a few million of his wiggly friends set out for some revenge in The Worm Eaters!

If you take any offense to the consuming of large, slimy and wiggly night crawlers in mass quantities, then this movie is not for you.

However if that really doesn’t bother you, and you want to see people morph into large worm hybrids then this may be the film you have been waiting for.

Written, directed and starring Herb Robins, as Herman, The Worm Eaters is about eighty minutes of pure gross-out horror and not in a good way, as the title kinda gives away the jest of the movie. I have no idea how he found so many people to eat so many worms. Yes, some are fake, but most are real. I mean men, women and children all chow down on some living spaghetti in this one. There are worms in burgers, ice cream, birthday cake and even straight out of the ground, why does Herman do this you may ask? Well I’ll tell ya. Herman’s worms are a mutant variety and after being consumed they transform the consumers into Jabba The Hutt-esque creatures that Herman can then control as well.

The trouble starts when three of Herman’s male victims demand some female companionship. “But Professor Prime, aren’t worms hermaphrodites, why would they need mates?” Calm down, it’s true that worms are exactly like the creamy skinned Paynecraft and can have fun on any occasion, but hey I didn’t write the script. The transformation scenes are terribly great, men and women roll around in brown sleeping bags with a little bit of oil on them, truly great cheap stuff to behold, at least once.

The Worm Eaters is a bizarre film to say t he least, but it’s still quite entertaining to watch at least once. It has moments of humor to go along with the gross and it all melds together nicely in the end. If your like me and still kind of have the basic mind set of a dirty minded grade-schooler, this film is just gross/nasty fun, however if you like your stuff a little more metropolitan, then leave The Worm Eaters underground in it’s cool dark cult place

6/10