C.H.U.D.

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

CHUD (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller) is a 1984 horror film about carnivorous mutants in the sewers of New York City. Street people begin to disappear and the police start to take notice. The eponymous creatures become bolder and come out to drag away more noticeable people, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission covers up their existence until the last minute.

The movie spawned two sequels of questionable relation to the first.

Tropes used in C.H.U.D. include:

Homer: ...and that's when the C.H.U.D.s came after me."

  • Was Once a Man: The chuds were originally homeless people who were mutated by radioactive waste left in the sewers.