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A nice traditional monster movie except that now the monsters are in the sewers. Douglas's Cheeks CHUD is a cult classic in my book. You know nowadays so many wannabee filmmakers try to do the same type of creature features but fail miserable. CHUD has had staying power for it's atmosphere, tongue in cheek humor, politically incorrectness and it's story. This was the movie that had John Goodman, Jay Thomas in early roles. Christopher Curry and Daniel Stern were great as Bosch and Reverend.

Sure CHUD is a low budget, at times silly monster movie but there a few hints of brilliance. I still goosebumps at our first glimpse of the CHUD in their habits. Cheeks directing attempts to make the movie serious while throwing couple random bizarre moments like the "shower scene" and coin swallowing scene.

You know this more of a traditional creature feature because we don't see many scenes with the CHUD but when we do they are all keepers!!!

Recently to show that how beloved CHUD is the TV Show Pushing Daisies mentioned the movie several times CHUD will be one of the more creature features from 80s.

C.H.U.D. is a brilliant cult classic 80's horror film that I remember watching when I was a kid, I used to have this on vhs along with the awful sequel called C.H.U.D.2: Chud The Bud. What I've noticed about this dvd is that the film is completely uncut and seems to be much longer than the previous version which is great, there were a couple of gore scenes that were cut along with the bloody shower scene. Anchor Bay did a terrific job transferring this film and the picture quality was high, there wasn't any blurry images or maybe that was from my old vhs. Anyway the plot was about some bad government guys who are dumping toxic waste beneath the sewers in New York thus transforming homeless people into C.H.U.D.s (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers) weird reptilian monsters with glowing eyes and taste for human flesh.

A soup chef played by Daniel Stern is concerned about his missing customers who are basically homeless people living on the streets, he decides to report this to the police and the police commissioner (Christopher Curry) who is also a friend of his investigates the case since there also seems to be a couple of mysterious deaths, along with a former fashion photographer (John Heard) their investigations all leads in the same direction.... the sewers!. They soon uncover a plot by the government to cover-up some of their dirty wok. Yes the premise was extremely cheesy but you gotta love it, it was a great cult classic horror flick with some nice and dark atmosphere and good locations and the acting from most of the cast was pretty good. The fx on the creatures does look abit outdated but they were great for the time and not to mention the film had a low budget.

Director Douglas Cheek balances some of the over the top cheesy monster fx and humor (The New York City Police Department has flamethrowers lol) with some serious scenes and there was an unnecessary subplot about George the photographer (John Heard) who is trying to support his pregnant model girlfriend which I thought dragged on a bit it was slightly boring, the movie would've done better without that scene. Anyway C.H.U.D. was great fun but the sequel sucked, it was more of a comedy and was completely unfunny so its better to avoid it and watch the first C.H.U.D. instead, oh yeah I almost forgot to mention that the monsters have the ability to stretch there necks to a long height without any explanation, yep it's a hoot!.