C.H.U.D.
- jackmeat5 mai 2025My 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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C.H.U.D. was released on 31 août 1984.
C.H.U.D. was directed by Douglas Cheek.
C.H.U.D. has a runtime of 1h 36min.
C.H.U.D. was produced by Andrew Bonime.
A New York, en 1977, le journal du New York Times, fait mention dans ses colonnes de l'existence de toute une colonie de clochards vivant dans les souterrains qui serpentent dans les égouts de la ville. Mais d'autres rumeurs disent que ces souterrains serviraient à stocker en secret des déchets. « A.J », un ex-détenu que l'on surnomme aussi « le Révérend », et qui vient en aide aux miséreux, en leur offrant « gîte et couvert », signale la disparition de l'un de ses plus fidèles sans-abri, mais au commissariat, personne ne daigne lever le petit doigt pour des laissés pour compte. Même le Capitaine Bosh, qui a déjà mis « A.J » sous les verrous, ne s'y intéresse pas. Pourtant, lorsque sa femme ne rentre pas un soir, il décide d'en savoir un peu plus sur ces disparitions, en lui rendant visite. « A.J » lui affirme qu'il n'est pas le seul à ne plus venir manger et qu'étrangement, ce sont seulement ceux qui vivent dans le sous-sol, qui ont disparu.
The key characters in C.H.U.D. are George Cooper (John Heard), A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd (Daniel Stern), Captain Bosch (Christopher Curry).
C.H.U.D. is rated 12.
C.H.U.D. is a Horreur, Science-Fiction film.
C.H.U.D. has an audience rating of 3.3 out of 10.
C.H.U.D. had a budget of 1,3 M $US.
C.H.U.D. has made 3,4 M $US at the box office.