1012 - SQUIRM (1976; R/PG; 93m)

a.k.a. SQUIRM: INVASION DER BESTIEN (West Germany)

Shown with Short: 1012S-A Case of Spring Fever

Ad: "This was the night of the CRAWLING TERROR!"

Ad: "An avalanche of killer worms...
writhing across the land in a tidal wave of terror!"

Plot: Mutated into carnivores by downed
power lines, lots of earthworms are hungry
for some local Georgians.

Exec: Edgar Lansbury
(Blue Sunshine; Godspell; The Wild Party)
Exec: Joseph Berry a.k.a. Joseph Beruh
(Blue Sunshine; The Wild Party)
Prod: George Manasse*
Dir/Scr: Jeff Lieberman (Blue Sunshine; Remote Control)
Cin: Joseph Mangine (Alligator 1 & 2; Exterminator 2)
Ed: Brian Smedley-Aston (Blue Sunshine; The Loved One)
SFX M/U: Rick Baker
(*704-The Incredible Melting Man; 1007-Track of the Moon Beast)
SFX: Don Farnsworth
SFX: Lee Howard (The Neptune Factor; The Stowaway)
SFX: Bill Milling (dir/Lauderdale; Caged Fury; Body Trouble)
Cos: Dianne Finn-Chapman (Roseland; Krush Groove)
M/U: Norman Page (Blue Sunshine)
PMgr: Peter Kean (prod asst/Godspell; loc mgr/The Europeans)
ADir: Henry Shrady (Slow Dancing in the Big City)
Score: Robert Prince (You're A Big Boy Now; TV's Gargoyles)

Mick / Don Scardino (Cruising; He Knows You're Alone)
Geri Sanders / Patricia Pearcy (Delusion; The Goodbye Girl)
Roger Grimes / R.A. Dow
Naomi Sanders / Jean Sullivan (French Postcards)
sheriff / Peter MacLean (TV's The Castaways on Gilligan's Island)
Alma Sanders / Fran Higgins
Quigley / William Newman (Mrs. Doubtfire; TV's The Stand)
sheriff's girlfriend / Barbara Quinn (Blue Sunshine; The Wild Party)
Willie Grimes / Carl Dagenhart
Millie / Angel Sande
Lizzie / Carol Jean Owens
Hank / Kim Iocouvozzi
Danny / Walter Dimmick
Bonnie / Leslie Thorsen (TV's The Greatest Gift)
Mrs. Klopp / Julia Klopp
first man at lunch counter / Ralph Flanders
second man at lunch counter / Albert Smith
(The Great Santini; TV's The Greatest Gift)
third man at lunch counter / Jim Shirah
bus driver / Harold Mumm
powerline repairman / W.A. Lindblatt

Trivia: Producer GEORGE MANASSE has brought these other forgettable films: 1971's Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name starring Red Buttons and Sylvia Miles; 1973's Blade with John Marley and Rue McClanahan; 1975's The Wild Party with James Coco and Raquel Welch; 1976's Blue Sunshine also directed by Lieberman; and 1980's He Knows You're Alone again with Scardino plus Tom Hanks in his film debut. Manasse's TV-movies include: 1982's Muggable Mary, Street Cop starring Karen Valentine; and 1998's Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!

Last Updated: 3/28/1999