C.H.U.D. (1984)

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 be 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 their chemicals underground, causing mutations that turn killers. So, in taking a poke at the homelessness issue while unleashing deformed killers adds to the dark humor of it. The effects are horrid, kills are very tame in today's 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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