I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Following a series of strange disappearances, a photographers' investigation reveals the sewers of New York are crawling with cannibalistic mutants spawned from government-released toxic waste and must find a way of stopping them from overtaking the city.Overall this one was a quite fun creature feature. Among the better qualities here is the story build-up in the first half as the fact that it's built up as a mystery element gives this one a great start. From the rash of disappearances that have an unexplained air to them to the way that it uses the underground collection of objects that shouldn't be there, it makes for a nicely unfolding mystery angle that is simply great. It's nicely done in here since the inclusion of the cover-up along with all the other facets of the mystery found through his involvement in their situation as well as the investigation brought about through the police all make this one pretty nice. There's also enough action in here to make it feel rather interesting, with their different appearances throughout the underground tunnels and the surprise ambushes on their victims out in the city without being fully revealed, while the first assault underground is fantastic as the futuristic suits worn offering some fantastic atmosphere, the presence of the soldiers giving it a great feel, and the big attack through the flames on the closed-circuit system offers up some fine points of interest. Another battle in the apartment complex is great, as the continual escapes into hiding offer up some really tense cat-and- mouse stalking scenes that are easily some of the best atmosphere in the film and the final chase to get out of the sewers away from the creatures before they get loose as the race to get out with the gas coming after them is pretty great as well making it really enjoyable. There's also the design of the creatures being pretty cool, looking suitably alien and indefinable but retaining enough humanistic parts to have it remain a rather impressive and scary creature with the glowing eyes, fang-lined mouth and huge claws. Otherwise, this one here doesn't have a whole lot to it as this one here did have a couple of flaws to it that hold it down. One of the biggest ones is that there's hardly any action at all in the film. There's only a few scenes in here where there's anything approaching action, and that's taken up with a few confrontations and nothing much else. Too much time is taken up in the beginning to really get into this as much as it should've been, and here it really weakens the amount of action by introducing so much into the mystery. The low-action in here is also responsible for it's low body-count, and therefore low amount of gore in here since the creatures are rarely in action and it's really noticeable. The low gore count is also noticeable in the fact that their method of killing can lead this one to feeling way too dry. Despite all of it coming from after-effects, no bloodshed is seen during any of the attacks due to their preference towards dragging them away off into the distance, and for a creature loaded with such impressive weapons to have to resort to that kind of method is really weak. These constitute the film's flaws.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and Nudity.

C.H.U.D. = Cannibalistic Human Underground Dweller. Nuclear Waste Sewer Monsters (N.W.S.M) Is what the the film is really about - and some political garbage. The film starts out a real bore-fest. We have an uptight photographer and his girlfriend model with drama between them over a photo shoot for a perfume ad. This photographer did a story on the homeless in the area and apparently gave them his phone number during the photo shoot & story on them - so yea they call him (and he seems a bit irritated about it). We also have a policeman who is now a police captain with lots of boring police stuff happening. There is a man that works in a soup kitchen who considers the homeless his family and they start to come up missing. Yea the getting to know the characters for about the first 25 minutes of the film is really boring. About the 25 minute mark it starts to pick up a little bit with boring scenes in-between. The last 30 minutes of the film gets pretty good - not too bad - this is when we see the C.H.U.D.s and the story picks up. The best most likable character by far is A.J. 'The Reverend' Shepherd (Daniel Stern). Two other somewhat likable characters are Captain Bosch (Curry) and Lauren Daniels (Greist). The rest of the characters I didn't care about (I'm not talking about the actors themselves - I mean the roles they play). I loved the cameo by John Goodman who plays a small part as a cop in diner - that was good. 5/10

C.H.U.D is not your average bloody 80's monster film. It is more of a heavily message environmental film in a sense. that being said how is the overall product? Not so good. First of all if you want to rate past decades films you have to put your mindset in that era in terms of special effects, picture quality, etc. The film is around 1h 30 min and as you are watching you with you had some of those minutes back.The C.H.U.D monster for 90% percent of the film is barely there. The only time it's there only last 10 seconds plus the kills is off screen so there is little to no blood. What troubles me is the fact the rating is R which is weird considering the fact the film in my eyes is tame comparing to other monsters film but it's nothing that is getting points off for. Most of the film is drama/mystery storyline among the people with their everyday problems which could have been cut down. It is because of this the film suffers pacing issues and for a movie that claims to be horror is falsely informed. Also whenever the characters are having a conversation there seems to be jump cuts to another scenario and then back to the previous conversation which is distracting. The least they could do is finish the scene between the characters and then switch to another scene instead of cutting forth then back. The acting was bland so no one seems to care and the delivery of dialog was either exaggerated or emotionless. Special effects were pretty good on the C.H.U.D monster. The makeup department did a great job on costumes.Overall I did not like the film. The only time I liked the film is the C.H.U.D in which I wish they were present instead of short seconds.

Captain Bosch (Curry) starts an investigation when his wife doesn't come back from a walk one night. People have been disappearing near this city block for awhile and Bosch meets A.J. Sheppard (Stern) who runs a soup kitchen. He notes that a lot of his regulars who live underground have also come up missing. The city has dumped toxic waste below the streets and the Homeless people are turning into mutant monsters. A photographer (Heard) gets mixed up in the mess while trying to do a story on the homeless people. This low budget horror film has a very good cast for a B movie monster flick. The monsters have a cool look to them but we don't see much of them. There's a lot of rubbery clawed hands pushing doors in and pulling people out of frame, instead of them showing full on monster attacks. There is a decent amount of gore all though it is pretty fake looking. The cover-up by the city is an interesting storyline and Stern as the dirty revolutionary is a lot of fun. Unfortunately the movie never gets scary at all and seeing the mutant monsters more would have helped this. The movie has developed a cult following through the years, but as a monster flick it is pretty tame.