Wolff rating: NIGHTMARE
Plot summary: Slimy things (well, guys in rubber suits) are eating people in the sewers of Manhattan.
Biased, pithy comments: This movie has a certain notoriety as being one of the videos released at the dawn of the video rental store era, and one of the only horror films you could find for a while. Thus, its brief sojourn in the theaters had nothing on its long run in video stores. Everyone has seen this oddly-named horror film sitting, dusty and forgotten, on their favorite video store's shelves. Is it any good? Not a chance. Despite starring a young Daniel Stern, there is so little talent expended in this film that even if it made any sense at all (why can't they put the truck in neutral? Why doesn't the lady do anything about the giant fountain of blood from the shower drain? Why do these C.H.U.D.s need to eat people as opposed to New York rats?), it still wouldn't be any good. Laughable, pathetic, but not quite totally boring, I'd leave that copy of CHUD on the shelf.
Other Notes: Apparently exists in several other incoherent versions, including a TV version that contains the obviously edited out diner massacre and an explanation of that random Justin kid who runs by. Watch for John Goodman and Jay Thomas as cops in the diner. Note that ``story'' creator Shepard Abbot gets to put his avatar in---Stern's character is called Shepard as well.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, and a vapid Kim Greist.
Directed by: Douglas Cheek