"Two gas company guys just found it, a Cannibalistic Humanoid
Underground Dweller, a C.H.U.D."
The New York 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.....and so a Police Officer, a Journalist and what I can only describe as a hippie team up to investigate what is actually going on!!
Next we meet George Cooper and his live-in girlfriend Lauren. 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, who runs the local homeless shelter and believes recent events to be a part of some massive, government cover up, and he 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, weasel type named Wilson, 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...and guess what? 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 the series of events we are left with George and A.J trapped in the sewers, numerous deaths, visitors accessing apartments (i.e... the CHUD), and arguments surrounding the best way in which the city can deal with these creatures. Wilson feels that the best way is to seal the sewers, open up the gas lines and asphyxiate the dwellers, regardless of the dangers it poses to the safety of the city - yet even the opposition of Captain Bosch falls on deaf ears. Can these creatures be stopped?? Or will the continue to feed upon the inhabitants of new York City????
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| 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 J.C. Quinn Michael O'Hare |
| Music by | Martin Cooper David A. Hughes |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 31, 1984 |
| Running time | 88 Minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Not stated |