The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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 mayor and town council in California want to steal dirty hermit Umgar's land.They want to build condos for yuppie tourists.Unfortunately for them Umgar discovers that when a human eats one of his worms they become a giant worm themselves.It's time for worm eating."The Worm Eaters" by Herb Robins is totally bad taste horror comedy in the vein of John Waters works.Ted V.Mikels produced and distributed this piece of utter schlock.The characters are absurd and annoying,the humor is goofy and there are some mildly disgusting close-ups of worm eating.The film is obviously not as extreme as "Cannibal Holocaust" or similar exploitation classics.If you like amateurish Z-grade cinema check this worm out.5 worms 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.

Now bear in mind, I love weird and even boring movies. "Big Meat Eater", "Weekend", and "City of the Living Dead" are all ones I've given ten stars to, but not this. "Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics" summed this one up pretty well: It starts out looking like a slightly gross kids movie, but quickly devolves into pointless dreck. A crazy old man accidentally raises some worms that become radioactive or cursed (I don't care enough to double check this), and 3 lost fishermen who eat them are transformed into worm men: People in sleeping bags covered with shaving cream. Soon they're putting the creepy crawlers in the town's food to expand worm society, and the whole second half of the movie is just extreme close-ups of hot dogs and scrambled eggs with worms in them being chewed. Eventually the old guy is accidentally wormified and tries to crawl into town to stop the madness, only to get flattened by a semi. Now, after the pain of sitting through the whole movie, this ending is indeed a satisfying crunch, but to quote VideoHound again, it "comes about a half hour too late to save the viewer". I recommend not even wasting a rental on this unless you really need a visual appetite suppressant. There is a scene in the beginning of the old guy playing house with his pet worms that was just cute enough that I almost gave "The Worm Eaters" 2 stars, but if this movie isn't total crap, I'm at a loss as to what is. Give me the puke-eater instead, any day!