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C.H.U.D. II - Bud The CHUD
1988
When a trio of friends snooping at the school science lab discover a corpse and accidentally let it roll away, they need a replacement fast. They find one at the local hospital, but this is no ordinary corpse, this is Bud the C.H.U.D., a cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller, who's soon out on a killing spree. Read more
| Starring | Brian Robbins, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Bill Calvert, Gerrit Graham |
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| Director | David Irving |
| Genres | Horror |
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C.H.U.D. II - Bud The CHUD
When a trio of friends snooping at the school science lab discover a corpse and accidentally let it roll away, they need a replacement fast. They find one at the local hospital, but this is no ordinary corpse, this is Bud the C.H.U.D., a cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller, who's soon out on a killing spree.
| Starring | Brian Robbins, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Bill Calvert, Gerrit Graham, Robert Vaughn |
|---|---|
| Director | David Irving |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins Watch now: 1 hr 25 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English Watch Online: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: None |
| Released | DVD: 08 Oct 2001 Watch now: 25 Sep 2009 Production year: 1988 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
| Format | DVD |
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Sequel in name only to the 1984 turkey, which sees a bunch of teenagers steal a corpse from a government research facility, only for it to turn cannibalistic and run amok in a small town during Halloween. One look at the script, no doubt, prompted director David Irving to play this for broad laughs, but nobody saw the joke. A star-heavy supporting cast that includes Bianca Jagger and Robert Vaughn has fun with the zombie make-up, but it's only the odd gratuitous death that keeps you from nodding off completely. The director's mother, Priscilla Pointer, also makes a brief appearance. Talk about nepotism!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
More C.R.U.D than C.H.U.D.
A truly cheesy film. Apparently this was going to be the sequel to Return of the Living Dead, but ended up becoming part of the CHUD franchise.
If ever you needed reminding why B movies died, this is it, it is funny in parts but ultimately tiresome, dull and lame. How Robert Vaughn ended doing this beats me! -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
A True '80's B Movie
The first thing that comes to mind upon viewing this film is 'Why?'. Not why was it made, but why has this been released on DVD, especially when so many truly classic movies haven't seen a release.
Having said that this sequel to C.H.U.D. is a watchable piece of 80's comedy horror in the same mould as the Fright Night movies.
The biggest shock in the film comes from seeing Robert Vaughn as a charicature of a tyrannical army officer - if you thought Superman III would have been a low point for him then think again. Hollywood had clearly forgotten his turn in the Magnificent Seven by the time he was reduced to accepting this part.
The story concerns Bud, the last remaining human guinea pig of the C.H.U.D. biological weapons programme which turns soldiers into crazed zombies who no longer feel pain.
The set up for this sequel involves him getting accidentally released from his cryogenic sleep by a couple of bungling, mega-mulleted students and it follows their attempts to recapture him as he attacks the public, spreading the C.H.U.D. virus on.
Robert Vaughn is the bad guy (dressed in the what seems to be the same Army uniform he wore in Superman III) who wants to recapture Bud and restart the C.H.U.D. program to protect America from the threat of a Commie invasion.
By the end I found myself missing the innocence of 80's moviemaking and realising that movies like this wouldn't get made today. I can't decide if that's a good thing or not!
This is a true '80's VHS B-Movie - your parents may have even rented it from the local Video Shop for you and this is your chance to remember those halcyon days.
However, if you didn't see it at the time, watching it now for the first time is a sobering experience of how naff those films could be! -
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