Striking a delicate balance between funny and truly creepy, Jeff Lieberman’s Squirm is an engaging entry in the animal-attack subgenre that was all the rage in the mid-1970s.

Squirm bests those films that feature a cast of thousands, since its cast of real worms numbers in the hundreds of thousands.

When “Squirm” isn’t silly, it’s boring, and it doesn’t deliver on splatter...

Anticipation builds steadily because the Georgia drawl is so incredibly slow (just like the wrigglers themselves).