A German hermit, who can talk with worms, seeks revenge on the town's mayor by putting mutant worms in everyone's meals and turning them into human worm slaves.A German hermit, who can talk with worms, seeks revenge on the town's mayor by putting mutant worms in everyone's meals and turning them into human worm slaves.A German hermit, who can talk with worms, seeks revenge on the town's mayor by putting mutant worms in everyone's meals and turning them into human worm slaves.
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- TriviaTed V. Mikels Jr., the son of producer Ted V. Mikels, appears in the film as a guest at the birthday party wearing a yellow shirt.
- GoofsWhen Umgar first meets Heidi, a pickup truck in the background sometimes has its hood up and sometimes down between shots.
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Herman Umgar: I'll rip your tongue off and slap ya silly with it!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007)
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Talk about Bad Taste!
Bad-movie lovers, beware
. Your standards will have to be set extremely low in case you want to remotely enjoy Herb Robins' "The Worm Eaters". This movie, produced by one of the über-gurus of crap cinema Ted V. Mikels is BEYOND bad! It has an irredeemably dumb plot, a totally incoherent narrative structure, humorist elements that are horrid and horror elements that are painfully hilarious. It's easily one of the worst movies ever made, and it is truly incomprehensible how the hell it managed to build up a rather solid cult status over the years. Probably this exclusively has to do with the fact that Herb Robins insisted on using real, live worms for the on screen consumption. Much of the footage is just close-ups of people (often with really terrible dental hygiene) slurping down & chewing up worms, and the only goal is to disgust and gross-out the audience. Robins himself stars as the dim-witted hermit Umgar, living in a lakeside shed in a corrupted little town. He collects and breeds worms
and then feeds them to his opponents, like the town's council members that want to evict him and reclaim the lake zone. The consumption of the worms somehow transforms people into man-worm hybrids. "The Worm Eaters" introduces a seemingly endless series of demented supportive characters and obviously all the actors and actresses overact incredibly. The make-up effects are pathetic, as the hybrid monsters are simply imbeciles tightly wrapped in filthy brown sleeping bags and desperately trying not to use their feet when they crawl through the mud. But, as wrong as it may sound, the film isn't entirely without merit and there really are a couple of positive elements. Like the goofy but cheerful theme music ("You'll end up eating worms"), the creative animated opening credits and some of the gags that look like Benny Hill sketches. In conclusion, "The Worm Eaters" will undoubtedly one of the most bizarre low-budget, Z-grade schlock productions you'll ever encounter, so be careful who you recommend it to.
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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