C.H.U.D.

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C.H.U.D.

Directed by	Douglas Cheek
Produced by	Andrew Bonime
Written by	Shepard Abbott Parnell Hall
Starring	John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist, John Goodman
Music by	Martin Cooper and David Hughes
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date(s)	August 31, 1984 (USA)
Running time	88 min.
Language	English
Budget	unknown
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For other uses, see CHUD.

C.H.U.D. an acronym for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller" was a 1984 B-movie horror flick produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography. In the movie, an alternate acronym (the real one referred to in the film) is "Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal". It won Best Fantasy Film at Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film in 1985, but advances in special effects have rendered it kitsch. It was followed in 1988 by C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.

1 Cast
2 Plot
3 Cultural References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Cast

Although the film was of a "pulp" genre, it did receive some surprisingly good reviews including a rave from the New York Times. It is now considered a cult classic. Among the notable actors with roles in the movie are John Goodman, Daniel Stern, and John Heard.

[edit] 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 humanoid creatures. A policeman teams with a journalist and a hippie to investigate the phenomenon.

[edit] Cultural References

Tom Green did a segment on his original Ottawa show in which himself and several sewer workers went searching for CHUD, Tom mispronounced 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.
The title inspired the name of the popular film news website CHUD.com. However, in this case the acronym stood for "Cinematic Happenings Under Development".
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 "...and that's when the C.H.U.D.s came." Marge responds: "Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the Pimps and C.H.U.D.s."
In another episode of The Simpsons, Homer- when falling from a building with Otto on a bungee cord- goes down into an open manhole and sees various underground creatures, including, but not limited to: CHUDS, and Molemen (with Hans Moleman as their leader).
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.
A semi-sequel was made in 1988, C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.
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 2 attractive girls fighting over him when he's so ugly, and replies "What, am I some kind of Chud or something?". His friend Randal also makes reference to the fact that the character Becky (Rosario Dawson) is pregnant with Dante's "hideous Chud of a kid".
The Providence based math-core band Daughters, known for their almost dizzying fast songs 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!"