History Film / CHUD

* ChekhovsGun: Cooper has some swords on the wall, which come in handy for Laurie later.

* ImAHumanitarian: The C.H.U.D.s seem to prey primarily on humans, even leaving the body of a dog dragged down with one of their victims uneaten.
* InitialismTitle: [[spoiler:Turns out that the C.H.U.D. meaning on the poster is a backronym to the actual government project's meaning -- "Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal".]]
* ItCameFromTheSink: The drains/sewers are one of the main ways that the CHUD can get up to human level. One of the first signs that something is wrong is Laurie's clogged shower drain, and she has opened up the sewer access to her home, which results in the creatures getting through. Later on, they pour blood on her from the shower.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: C.H.U.D. does ''not'' stand for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. It stands for "Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal" and the agency coverup.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Wilson tries to kill the protagonists at end after they discover [[spoiler: all the toxic waste that have been dumped in the sewers.]]

* NuclearNasty: The heroes can track the things with a Geiger counter.

''C.H.U.D.'' (''Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller'') is a 1984 horror film about carnivorous mutants in the sewers of New York City starring Creator/JohnHeard and Creator/DanielStern. 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.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: The white truck at the end explodes when the tire hits an open manhole. In the sequel, Colonel Masters makes a pick-up truck explode by merely shooting it once with a small gun.
** Possible justified in the first film as the sewers were flooded with gas, the trucks frame hitting the metal frame of the manhole could have sparked it into exploding and engulfing the truck.
*** Justified in that, earlier in the film, Wilson warns several NRC men that the trucks are rigged to explode on impact from below.

''C.H.U.D.'' (''Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller'') is a 1984 horror film about carnivorous mutants in the sewers of New York City starring John Heard and Creator/DanielStern. 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.

* BigApplesauce: New York was still enough of TheBigRottenApple that a government agency didn't cared [[spoiler:about any potential side-effects of storing ''nuclear waste'' in the sewers underneath it -- and that's long before people started turning into flesh-eating monsters.]]
* BodyHorror: The monsters are horribly mutated humans. One scene takes it further, with the chud's neck stretching to a giraffe-like length for no explained reason.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster for the sequel depicts three teenagers in a pick-up truck stealing a C.H.U.D. in its final stages of mutation. Three teens do steal a C.H.U.D. but not in a pick-up truck and the C.H.U.D.s looks human throughout the movie, not like the green creatures from the first film.

''C.H.U.D.'' (''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.