YMMV / C.H.U.D.

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• Awesome Music: The electronic score by Martin Cooper and David A. Hughes can be quite catchy and stylish and even creepy at times, and often sounds like something out of a contemporary Doctor Who episode.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Laurie's shower scene with blood spattering out of the drain seems only a way to pigeonhole a Shower Scene into the film. The CHUDs are not shown to be capable of backing up a drain, and the subplot is never brought back up to connect it to the main storyline, nor does Laurie even react to it afterwards like anyone else would.
• Memetic Mutation: The term 'CHUD' is usually assigned to any kind of sewer-dweller, or just as a very colorful insult term of occasionally political implications—the latter use has actually seen limited adoption in some dictionaries (most notably Wiktionary).
  Marge Simpson: Oh, Homer, of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.
• Parody Displacement:
  • Nowadays the film is mostly only remembered for coining the term 'CHUD', especially since the term got revived as a term of political abuse. This film's greatest impact is probably in linguistics, if you can believe it.
  • In a more straightforward example, on the off-chance it isn't the term "chud" itself that people remember, people probably would remember the C.H.A.D. from Super Meat Boy instead of these guys, who is a parody of the monsters—especially since Chad appears in another Edmund game both as a boss and as an item.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • The two male leads, George and AJ, are played by John Heard and Daniel Stern, respectively, who are perhaps best known for their appearances in the much-beloved holiday comedy Home Alone.
  • A young John Goodman and character actor Jay Thomas show up in small parts as the cops at the diner.
  • Jon Polito, the newscaster, would later become a Coen Brothers regular.
  • Michael O'Hare, later of Babylon 5 fame, has a background role as one of the cops.
  • Kim Greist is nowadays better remembered for her roles in Manhunter and Brazil.
• Sequelitis: People don't talk about Bud the C.H.U.D. very often.
  El Santo: Let’s turn back the clock for a moment to the summer of 1989. My brother and I are out at the now-extinct Blair’s Video down the street from our house, looking for a movie to rent. Both of us are avid fans of the original C.H.U.D., so when one of us notices the tape bearing the logo “C.H.U.D. II,” we snap it up without even bothering to read what’s on the back of the box. About half an hour later, we discover what a terrible mistake that was. Even back then, I was a pretty hardcore devotee of truly awful movies, and there haven’t been a whole lot of films that have defeated me over the years. C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. defeated me. In fact, to put it that way might even be to understate the case. Better to say that C.H.U.D. II slung me over its knee and spanked me like a little bitch. It was only about twenty minutes before I got up and hit the “eject” button on the VCR; my brother had wandered off to do something more enjoyable well before that. Neither one of us ever gave the slightest consideration to watching the rest of the movie, either.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The CHUD creatures themselves are sufficiently creepy and monstrous, and only one encounter between one of the leads and one of the creatures takes place. The effects do, however, possibly look a little ropey when the creature pursuing George's wife starts to extend its neck like a giraffe.

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