C.H.U.D. was a 1984 B horror movie (with elements of a Slasher and nod to golden age Creature Features) produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography. Among the notable actors with roles in the movie are John Goodman, Daniel Stern, and John Heard. It was followed in 1988 by C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (967x1456, 221 KB) Summary The movie poster of the 1984 B-flick. ... John Heard John Heard (born March 7, 1945 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor. ... Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957), is an American television and film actor. ... Greist in Brazil (film), 1985 Kimberly Bret Greist (born May 12, 1958) is an American actress. ... Not to be confused with Johnny Goodman (TV producer), Johnny Goodman, or John C. Goodman. ... J.C. Quinn (November 30, 1940 – February 10, 2004) was an American film and theatre actor. ... Michael OHare as Jeffrey Sinclair in Babylon 5 Michael OHare (born 6 May 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, best known as Jeffrey Sinclair on the science fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Martin Cooper is invited to join COMPUTEX Taipei 2007 e21 Forum. ... Peter Stein (born October 1, 1937) is a critically acclaimed German director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company he arguably brought to the forefront of German theatre. ... Claire Simpson is the Academy Award-winning British film editor of the Oliver Stone-directed motion picture, Platoon (as well as editor of Oliver Stones Salvador and Wall Street) and winner of the prestigious BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing for The Constant Gardener. ... // New World Communications Company Info •This company no longer exists. ... is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Chud is a term referring to urban homeless people, especially those who dwell in the tunnels, sewers and subway corridors beneath New York City. ... This article is about the year. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... A self propelled Case Windrower. ... Facsimile of title for WNEW-TV Channel 5s Creature Feature Creature Features was a syndicated horror show broadcast on local U.S. television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. ... Not to be confused with Johnny Goodman (TV producer), Johnny Goodman, or John C. Goodman. ... Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957), is an American television and film actor. ... John Heard John Heard (born March 7, 1945 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor. ...

Although the film was of a "pulp" genre, it did receive some surprisingly good reviews including a rave from the New York Times. It won Best Fantasy Film at Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film in 1985, but advances in special effects have rendered it kitsch. It is now considered a cult classic. This article is about inexpensive fiction magazines. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film was created in 1983 as a venue for horror, thriller & science fiction films. ... This article is about the year. ... Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

C.H.U.D. is an acronym for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller". In the movie, an alternate acronym is given as "Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal". It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... “Cannibal” redirects here. ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ...

Plot

In the film, the New York City Police Department receive reports of people disappearing from the streets of the city—disturbingly, witnesses say the victims are pulled into manholes by deformed creatures. A police officer teams with a journalist and a hippie to investigate the phenomenon. As the film begins we see a woman walking her dog down a lonely, darkened city street, she passes by a drain hole cover and voila – the modus operandi of CHUD feeding behavior is established, The dog manages to get away but is not seen. Next we meet George Cooper (Heard) and his live-in girlfriend Lauren (Greist). George, a once prominent fashion photographer, has since forgone the fame and fortune of taking pictures of scantily clad models in pursuit of artistic credibility, his most current project photographing New York's homeless population, specifically those known as `undergrounders', or people who reside within the bowels of the city (the sewers, unused subway tunnels, etc.). We also meet a police captain named Bosch (Curry), who has a personal interest in the recent spate of missing persons being reported to his precinct (mostly the homeless), so much so he interviews A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd (Stern), who runs the local bum shelter and believes recent events to be a part of some massive, government cover up, and has the evidence to prove it. Bosch's superiors know more than they're letting on, and seem to be taking their cues from an overly glib, weasely type named Wilson (Martin), who works for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Turns out there are monsters lurking beneath the streets, beings that were once human, since mutated by toxic waste into hideous, flesh eating creatures preying on those homeless who live beneath the streets. Given the recent drop in the underground transient population, the creatures have resorted to coming to the surface (through sewer manholes) in order to feed. Through a series of events, both George and A.J. find themselves trapped in the sewers, a reporter gets involved (and eaten), Lauren has a problem with both a clogged shower drain and an unexpected visitor (one who came up through the sewer access point in the basement of the apartment building that she mysteriously decides to open). Captain Bosch argues with Wilson as how to best deal with the threat - Wilson wants to seal the sewers, open up some gas lines, and asphyxiate the C.H.U.D. despite the inherent danger in blowing up three-halves (sic) of the city (Thus contradicting the laws of simple mathematics). The New York City Police Department (NYPD) was created in 1845 and currently is the largest municipal police force in the world with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia Hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) refers to a member of a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the early 1960s, becoming an established social group by 1965, and expanding to other countries before declining in the mid-1970s. ... Asphyxia is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body. ...

Cultural References

The Simpsons

• In the September 24, 1997 episode of The Simpsons, "The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson", Homer Simpson's recollection of his first trip to New York City ended with his falling in the sewer and quoting, "...and that's when the C.H.U.D.s came at me." Marge responds: "Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the C.H.U.D.s."
• In another episode of The Simpsons, "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder", Homer—when falling from a building with Otto on a bungee cord—goes down into an open manhole and sees various underground creatures, including Morlocks (from H.G. Wells "The Time Machine"), C.H.U.D.s, and Molemen (with Hans Moleman as their leader).
• In yet another Simpsons episode, "Crook and Ladder", a videocassette of the film is seen at the beginning of a chain of videocassette boxes used as dominoes.

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Other

• In one of his weekly strips, Stephen Notley's Bob the Angry Flower facilitates the reconciliation of C.H.U.D. and humans: [1]
• Tom Green did a segment on his original Ottawa show in which he and several sewer workers went searching for CHUD, Tom misappropriated the U.D. acronym for 'Urban Dweller' and in the end it turned out that Rock, one of the fellow sewage workers, was a C.H.U.D. all along, prompting Tom to sing "Rock is the Chud, Rock is the CHUD, He's not my Bud!"
• In the soup kitchen Val (Graham Beckel) addresses A.J. (Daniel Stern) and Bosch (Christopher Curry) as Gog and Magog, which is probably a reference to the biblical demons, not C.H.U.D.
• The title inspired the name of the film news website CHUD.com. However, in this case the acronym stands for "Cinematic Happenings Under Development".
• In the February 7, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert blamed the C.H.U.D. for the construction of an illegal drug-trade tunnel between the USA and Mexico.
• C.H.U.D. was a card in the Church of the Subgenius card game.
• Deceased rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard (of Wu-Tang Clan fame) refers to the long version of the title in his lyrics on a bonus track on his first LP "Return to the 36 Chambers".
• In Clerks II, the character of Dante Hicks is asked why he always has two good-looking girls fighting over him when he's such a hideous CHUD.
• The Providence based mathcore band Daughters, released a song entitled "And Then the C.H.U.D.S Came" on their 2003 album Canada Songs.
• The 2001 film Donnie Darko originally intended to show a sequence from C.H.U.D., but instead obtained the rights to Evil Dead. In one scene, after a confrontation with a motivational speaker, the title character states: "He thinks he's so rad, but he's such a CHUD!"
• In the first installent of the video game "Tony Hawk's Underground", an unlockable character resembling the creature from the black lagoon is referred to as "T.H.U.D" (Tony Hawk's Underground Dweller). The T.H.U.D also appears in the Neversoft logo at the start of the game, where it attacks & maims Eric Sparrow.
• Dr. Chud, former drummer of seminal punk rock band the Misfits, takes his name from this film.
• Chud also is a slang term for transsexuals.^{[citation needed]}
• At the premier of his 2007 remake of the movie Halloween director Rob Zombie said his next project was going to be a remake of C.H.U.D.

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See also

• Morlocks
• Cannibal
• Horror Film
• Urban exploration
• Roof and tunnel hacking

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External links

• C.H.U.D. at the Internet Movie Database
• C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud at the Internet Movie Database