Squirm (film)
''Squirm'' is a 1976 American natural horror film written and directed by Jeff Lieberman, starring Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R. A. Dow, Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins and William Newman. The film takes place in the fictional town of Fly Creek, Georgia, which becomes infested with carnivorous worms after an electrical storm. Lieberman's script is based on a childhood incident in which his brother fed electricity into a patch of earth, causing earthworms to rise to the surface. Most of the financing came from Broadway producers Edgar Lansbury and Joseph Beruh. Millions of worms were used over the five-week filming in Port Wentworth, Georgia; worms were brought in from Maine to augment local supplies. Makeup artist Rick Baker provided the special effects, using prosthetics for the first time in his career. After American International Pictures picked up ''Squirm'' for distribution, it was edited to remove the most graphic scenes in an unsuccessful attempt to lo ...
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Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for his cult horror and thriller films ''Squirm'' (1976), '' Blue Sunshine'' (1978) and '' Just Before Dawn'' (1981). Biography Jeff Lieberman was born in 1947 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. He made his feature film debut as the writer and director of the nature horror film ''Squirm'' (1976), about earthworms inundating a small Southern town and wreaking havoc. His following film, '' Blue Sunshine'' (1978), followed a series of murders in Los Angeles, connected to the killers' use of a certain strain of LSD. ''Blue Sunshine'' screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the London Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 1981, Lieberman wrote and directed the slasher film '' Just Before Dawn'', about a group of campers stalked by a killer in the backwoods of Oregon. In 1988, Lieberman wrote and directed ''Remote Control'', a science fiction film followi ...
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