FilmRMonster & Creature Sci-Fi Horror Splatter & Gore

C.H.U.D.1984

Name: C.H.U.D.
Genre: Monster & Creature, Sci-Fi Horror, Splatter & Gore, Survival
Released: 1984-08-31
Rating: 5.5

“They're not staying down there anymore!”

Directed by Douglas Cheek

5.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.6Rotten Tomatoes 44%Metacritic 57TMDB 5.6

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Year

1984

Runtime

96 min

Box Office

Budget

$1,250,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$3,412,497

Domestic

$4,654,423

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination

The premise

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 photojournalist 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.

Horror Vault's take

Something is hunting people beneath the streets of New York City, and the body count is rising fast. A detective, a street-smart photographer, and a shadowy insider each hold pieces of a puzzle that points toward a terrifying truth buried deep in the city's sewer system. C.H.U.D. blends creature-feature thrills with a streak of 1980s urban paranoia, grounding its monster mayhem in a conspiracy that implicates the powerful and endangers the powerless. It's a grimy, pulse-quickening cult classic that captures a uniquely lawless era of New York City horror.

Content: Gore, Graphic Violence, Decapitation, Monster Attack Sequences