What's there to say about this bonafide classic film that hasn't already been said? I don't know. I'm actually looking forward to my next review, check out Skinner, coming up next.
CHUD stars John Heard and Daniel Stern, it's also got John Goodman for a tiny scene. What a handsome dude John Goodman used to be by the way. It's crazy, he looked a lot like a guy I used to know! Anyways, the performances help lift this movie up, as well as it actually being competently shot by director Douglas Cheek in his only directorial feature film also helps.
What you have here is a pretty straightforward film. Early on, in the first like 17 seconds, we know what this movie is about. A woman on the street is grabbed by some sorta creature out of a sewer system. We can see the hand of the creature is humanoid, but hugely mutated and gross, and thus we already know what the killers are (and probably how they got down there to begin with).
So with the suspense gone, with the answers there, we are only left to follow the characters as they in the story discover what is what. This is primarily Daniel Stern as a reporter and Christopher Curry as a cop, with John Heard as a photographer being brought in as well. Meanwhile, John Heard's wife is pregnant and it seems the creatures are pretty close to where she lives.
One thing I really took away as well from this is just how much only a few elements elevate your horror movie. Of course, acting is a huge thing. But also, the music in this is fantastic. It's creepy, it works just right, and music done by David A. Hughes made sure that he would stick around in the industry for a while and later work on Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I dunno, bruh, I liked this. Perhaps a tiny bit overlong and felt pretty obvious where it was going. Also, the killer creatures in the end? Fucking awesome. Well, well done and awesomely real effects.
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