C.H.U.D.
Directed by Douglas Cheek5.643%33%5.6
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 photo journalist 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.
C.H.U.D. Ratings & Reviews
- lavlavs22 March 2026Watched with a fart track so that I knew something would happen
- johnwilliamson28 January 2026A fairly taught and fun piece of 80's trash. There are some stand out performances here including future Home Alone stars Daniel Stern and John Heard.
- tnt.psd10 July 2025“And that's when the CH*Ds came at me” It would let me type ch*ud
- Pete Chandler10 January 2026Excellent 1980's monster horror, decent cast, good acting and great if not cheesy 1980's style monsters however, do not bother with C.H.U.D II 'Bud the Chud" as that's what stopped there being a C.H.U.D III.
- jackmeat5 May 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?
- tellum6 April 2025Daniel Stern carries this movie, and that is not a backhanded compliment about the quality of the movie. He gives a genuinely great performance the elevates every scene.
C.H.U.D. Trivia
C.H.U.D. was released on 31 August 1984.
C.H.U.D. was directed by Douglas Cheek.
C.H.U.D. has a runtime of 1h 36m.
C.H.U.D. was produced by Andrew Bonime.
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 photo journalist 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.
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 18.
C.H.U.D. is a Horror, 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 US$1.3M.
C.H.U.D. has made US$3.4M at the box office.