Writer / director / star Herb Robins (the creepy carny in Tobe Hoopers' "The Funhouse") concocted this inane cult horror-comedy that may well have been inspired by Jeff Lieberman's "Squirm". Robins plays Herman Umgar, a German hermit residing on highly coveted lakeside property which the uber-sleazy local mayor wants to develop. But Herman will get his revenge. It so happens that he can communicate with worms (!), and when he infects the towns' food supply with toxic worms, people end up turning into half-human, half-worm hybrids!No-budget quirky stuff isn't as much fun as the B movie aficionado might like. It runs an hour and a half, but one can't help but wish that Robins had cut down a lot of the offbeat character detail; it takes this simple flick too long to get going, and the humour pretty much runs its course before long. As a director, Robins seemed to have encouraged his cast to go way over the top, whether or not the scene really calls for it. Still, Robins does know how to push SOME buttons: the most memorable images occur when people are chowing down, and he inserts close-ups of worms in peoples' mouths. Always a good way to gross an audience out. The special effects are hilariously crude.All in all, there's a certain gleeful childishness about the whole thing, certain to make children and more immature adults giggle. The opening credits are accompanied by one of the most insidiously catchy ditties ("You'll End Up Eating Worms") that one is ever likely to hear. Robins doesn't deliver as good a time as these credits would seem to indicate, but it's hard to completely knock B pictures with these kinds of wacky premises. If you enjoy "Squirm" (whether ironically or not), you may be amused to some degree by this ridiculous nonsense.Produced, and distributed, by Ted V. Mikels, himself a somewhat big name when it comes to similar entertainment ("Astro-Zombies", need I say more?).Six out of 10.

The worm eaters is so bad of a movie you will feel like you were robbed out of the hour and 20 minutes watching it.it makes plan 9 from outer space look like citizen Kane,well not really but its really bad and not even in a fun way.bad acting and some really nasty scenes of people eating worms.if you want to see a good worm movie watch squirm which came out the same year,thats a gem compared to this nasty movie.Ted V Mikels has made better movies,like astro zombies.the cast is a bunch of unknowns.it surprises me that this was ignored in the DVD 50 of the worst movies ever made,so was mighty gorga which is sightly better than this one.people eat worms and turn into,well you will get the idea.worm eaters is so awful you will ask yourself why.

A club-footed fellow named Ungar is displaced from his home, and latterly feeds some people live worms. For some unexplained reason, these people mutate into monsters with the upper body of a human and the lower region of a wriggling earthworm(a really cheaply done effect...it looks like people wearing waist-high feed-bags). A film which was made solely for the purpose of presenting gross-out scenes involving live worms being slurped-up into people's mouths in almost-pornographic close-up shots. It's allegedly a comedy, although I have doubts that anyone with a cranial capacity above the "Beavis and Butthead" level would ever manage to find a single frame of THE WORM EATERS worth laughing, or even smiling about. This is nothing more than a "Hey, look, everybody...aren't we weird?" piece of poorly concocted idiocy...to be curious about it is understandable, but honestly, chain yourself to a tree or something if necessary.2.5/10

1977 comedy (some facts list 1975) has Herb Robins assaulting the town using worms in a way that I really can't tell you for it would be giving away the surprise of the film. There is actual worm eating, and the ending is classic. Even got a chezzy title song. Played at the Seattle Film Festival in the mid-80's, this film got little attention and should be some sort of cult classic. Not recommended to people who don't want to see worm eating.