C.H.U.D.

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Summary: An cool entertaining Cult Classic.
Review: After the disappearence of missing people from NYC. Beneath the streets of NYC, there are hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels unfit for anything human. Then there`s some people are attacking the population of undergroud of the city.

DVD`s has an fine anamorphic Widescreen (1.77:1) transfer and an good Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Sound. An very entertaining and very funny commentary track by director:Douglas Cheek, Writer Shepard Abbott and Actors:John Heard (Home Alone), Daniel Stern (City Slickers) and Christopher Curry (Starship Troopers). There`s an hidden extended scene in the shower scene in the DVD. This is the original cut of Cheek version. This runs 8 mins of addtional footage (also been re-edited) and an different ending. An original horror film, filmed on (and below) the streets of NYC. An cult classic. Grade:A-.

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Summary: CHUD - New York watch out!
Review: C.H.U.D is a classic; one I almost ignored. I had doubts about whether or not it would be good but bought it anyway. I am happy that I did. It takes place in present day (well, for when it was made) New York, where something is killing off the homeless people. A man who runs a local soup-kitchen, along with a doubting police captain, figure out what it is that is killing everyone. Meanwhile a photographer, who recently moved to NY and is trying to get pictures of the homeless people for a newspaper article gets involved, and they try to stop the monsters. However, it appears that this goes higher into the government than any of them expected, and they are soon in over their heads.
The movie also has a clever social commentary, about how people try to forget about the homeless, and how people don't want to have anything to do with them. No one cares about the people being killed, until the "real people" die. At that point, it becomes a major military topic.
This is a movie that no one should go without seeing. It is well worth the price, and will not disappoint.

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Summary: Great Film
Review: C.H.U.D was a great film with over the top notch notch acting. Great affects for a 1984 movie, and great creatures.....but, this film seemed to be missing something. I don't quite know what it is that it's missing. Maybe the plot wasn't right. It just didn't feel like a 5 star movie. It is a great film and you should check into it and see for yourself. John Heard and Daniel Stern (Home Alone actors) are great in this filma and make it enjoyable. The music is pretty good and the creatures in this are awsome for a 1984 movie and are still quite good. I recommend renting it first before you buy it just to make sure you don't feel the thing that's missing in this film. I'm still deciding weather to buy it or not.

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Summary: Great Film
Review: C.H.U.D was a great film with over the top notch notch acting. Great affects for a 1984 movie, and great creatures.....but, this film seemed to be missing something. I don't quite know what it is that it's missing. Maybe the plot wasn't right. It just didn't feel like a 5 star movie. It is a great film and you should check into it and see for yourself. John Heard and Daniel Stern (Home Alone actors) are great in this filma and make it enjoyable. The music is pretty good and the creatures in this are awsome for a 1984 movie and are still quite good. I recommend renting it first before you buy it just to make sure you don't feel the thing that's missing in this film. I'm still deciding weather to buy it or not.

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Summary: This C.H.U.D. is no DUD! Vintage eighties homeless horror!
Review: C.H.U.D. director Douglas Cheeks goes to some pretty extreme lengths to prove there are worse things---far worse---than baby alligators in the New York sewer system.

I love C.H.U.D. The movie is a terrific little slice of pure old-fashioned "mutated homeless guys in the sewers are going to eat the New Yorkers!" horror, and truly they don't make them like this anymore.

Like me, C.H.U.D. is a child of the eighties: this was the horror video we always rented (along with the eighties remake of "The Blob", of course) when we were having a party with girls in attendance. C.H.U.D. is gory, creepy, cheesy, edited for maximum shock affect, and utterly shameless. Oh, it's great fun, too, did I mention that?

C.H.U.D. is like that: a wonderful little nugget of vintage eighties horror, lovingly treated on Anchor Bay's crisp DVD release and chock-full of everything that might appeal to a C.H.U.D.: having just watched the film, I flipped on the commentary (with director Doug Cheeks, John Heard, and Daniel Stern, among others), and it was hysterical---it was so funny it was like watching C.H.U.D. with a group of old friends.

The plot? Alright, if you insist: Detective Bosch's wife, out walking her dog, has gone missing, and Bosch is quick to pick up a pattern, especially when he talks to the Reverend (played to the hilt, with electric hair and inexplicable shirt stains by the great Daniel Stern)and discovers---horrors!---that homeless folks at the Reverend's soup kitchen in the Bowery are disappearing at an alarming rate.

The boys ultimately join forces with John Heard, who plays an artist who takes arty photography of the city's underground poor (who live in the vast, ruinous sewers and subway tunnels of the city); ultimately they discover the horrid truth: a government cover-up, radioactive waste, and another meaning for the acronym C.H.U.D.

The movie, meanwhile, is hysterically funny horror film gold. Cheeks makes the most of his film's low budget, and while he pans the C.H.U.D.'s appearance on the director's commentary, the little creatures are undeniably nasty and impressive. Indeed, C.H.U.D. features some truly terrifying sequences, and the set design and locations (some actually shot in the New York subway system) are suitably claustrophobic. Finally, the movie is full of famous character actors: look for Eddie Jones (who played the Baron Harkonnen in "Dune") and a very young John Goodman (who turns up with 'Roseanne' co-star and 'Murphy Brown' regular Jay Thomas in the famous blood-spattered diner scene).

Drop the lights, break out the popcorn, and put some Duran Duran on the turntable: the CHUDS are coming!

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Summary: Look out! C.H.U.D. is underground!
Review: C.H.U.D. is a hilariously demented movie, and I say that with the highest compliments. It's about mutated humanoids that live underground, but decide "they're not staying down there anymore". It's not scary, and it's not a comedy. It's one of those cheesy movies in the back of the video store that you (yes, YOU) always pick up to look at, glancing back and forth to make sure no one sees you with it, then put back down on the shelf in order to not damage your ego. You're missing out!

John Heard is the main character who takes pictures of homeless underground dwellers who have encountered the humanoids, but it's Daniel Stern who dominates the film as a soup-kitchen worker who gets into the investigation of mysterious disappearings when he reports two of his customers missing. If you like horror, sci-fi, or...slimy mutated people with glowing eyes, check it out! And beware...of the C.H.U.D!

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Summary: Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
Review: Daniel Stearn's performance in this film is without question his best to date, combine that with the brillant writing in the script and you have a true cult classic on your hands with this film!!

I love zombie films and that's why I love C.H.U.D.!! The C.H.U.D.s may radioactive mutants but they deliver the same end of world feel as Romero or Fulci's creations. They are in short an army of Argento type demons lurking below the streets of New York just waiting to spread their diease across the world.

In one of the best scenes of this film a group of N.R.C. scientists accompanied by three S.W.A.T. team members armed with flamethrowers and assualt rifles stumble upon a lone C.H.U.D. It makes its way through the team's flamethrowers and tears them all to sheds.

Even the X-files have paid homeage to this film with an episode entitled "The Host". If you haven't seen this one, you truly need to!!!!!

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Summary: exceptional dvd treatment of a b-movie classic
Review: f@#$!!??** hilarious film and commentary.

this dvd rocks. the film sucks. . .and is genius.

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Summary: DVD is a Director's Cut!
Review: For those of you, like me, who felt that the original version of C.H.U.D. was really lacking in many ways may find this unlabelled director's cut quite a welcome surprise. The changes include a few extra character development scenes, a different ending, and some original scenes that appear in a different order. These changes helped this pulpy gem stand a bit higher than its b-grade horror bretheren. Plus, the monster effects are very ambitious. All-in-all, a fun movie to watch with friends.

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Summary: Ok monster movie for the faint hearted.
Review: Good start for a horror movie, but some cheesy parts. The mood is creepy but the plot is corny. There could have been better effects, but it is better than its sequel. Try it out you might like it, hardcore horror fans probably won't.