Squirm is a 1976 American natural horror film starring Don ScardinoPatricia PearcyR. A. DowJean SullivanPeter MacLeanFran 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.