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C.H.U.D.

C.H.U.D. Productions (1984)

Xvid

MP4

5.6

15,225

Horror | Science Fiction

USA | English | Color | 01:28

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A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.

Cast View all

	John Heard	George Cooper
	Daniel Stern	A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd
	Christopher Curry	Captain Bosch
	Kim Greist	Lauren Daniels
	Laure Mattos	Flora Bosch
	Brenda Currin	Francine the Landlady
	Justin Hall	Justin
	Michael O'Hare	Fuller
	Cordis Heard	Officer Sanderson
	Vic Polizos	Hays
	Eddie Jones	Chief O'Brien
	Sam McMurray	Officer Crespi
	Frank Adu	Interrogation Cop
	Ruth Maleczech	Mrs. Monroe
	J.C. Quinn	Murphy
	Patricia Richardson	Ad Woman
	Ray Baker	Ad Man
	Beverly Bentley	Doris
	Graham Beckel	Val
	Gene O'Neill	Jackson
	Rocco Siclari	Hugo
	Bill Raymond	Victor
	Peter Michael Goetz	Gramps
	Shana Lee Farrell	Cindy
	John Ramsey	Commissioner

Crew View all

Director	Douglas Cheek
Writer	Parnell Hall, Shepard Abbott, Christopher Curry, Daniel Stern
Producer	Larry Abrams, Andrew Bonime, Thomas H. Field, Alfonso Tafoya
Musician	David A. Hughes
Photography	Peter Stein

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Edition details

Nr Discs	1

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Owner	Jackmeats Flix
Location	Deleted
Purchased	On Apr 30, 2020 at YTS
Watched	Jan 29, 2021
Index	1671
Added Date	Apr 30, 2020 10:10:27
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Notes

My quick rating - 5,5/10. Good/bad is exactly the way to put it. There wasn't going to be any awards for this one but that doesn't make it any less fun. If you set out to b a b-budget flick and embrace it, sometimes this happens. Subterranean cannibals in the underground of NYC. The idea nearly sells itself yet to expand on it via nearly unknown actors/actresses (whom I read and I guess in commentary are friends, wives, that dude over there when I said "cut") and come up with a flick that 36 years later was still viable amusement is impressive. Of course, the acronym has multiple meanings, and here we have big business dumping there chemicals underground causing mutations turned killers. So in taking a poke at homelessness issue while unleashing deformed killers adds to the dark humor of it. The effects are horrid, kills are very tame in todays standards but I still had a few laughs and remember browsing the shelves at that video store in Shermer plaza (name?) and seeing the cover of this one. (no WCV or Blockbuster yet, and never worked at that video store). Bonus: I did NOT remember John Goodman having a short part in this at all. Let's see who reads the reviews and comments about that one?

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