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You've no doubt noticed your creepy gear occupying less and less shelf space to make room for Christmas bullshit, which can only mean one thing -- the holidays are upon us. Now, I love a good orgy of consumerism just as much as the next demon, but I want to remind you to think of those less fortunate, specifically the homeless, as y'all start bickering about what the coffee cups at Starbucks look like this year.
This week's Thursday Thriller is C.H.U.D.
This 1984 conspiracy theory was directed by Douglas Cheek. It stars John Heard as George Cooper, a photographer who makes ends meet doing fashion shoots with his girlfriend Lauren Daniels (Kim Greist) but would rather spend his time doing gritty, hard-hitting photojournalism. His pet project in progress is a series documenting the homeless and he's way past deadline because his preferred subjects have gone missing. One of them, Mrs. Monroe (Ruth Maleczech) turns up in jail for trying to steal a gun from Officer Crespi (Sam McMurray). George ditches a commercial shoot immediately to go bail her out.
Meanwhile, A.J. "The Reverend" Shepherd calls police captain Bosch (Christopher Curry) down to his soup kitchen to report some of his regular clients, particularly those who live underground in the sewers, are missing. What's more, the ones who still show up to eat are arming themselves and babbling about monsters.
As you can probably tell by my summary, C.H.U.D. takes a little while to get moving, but otherwise it's not a bad movie. Hang in there for the gnarly looking, glowing-eyed, sewer monsters, massive explosions, and a brief appearance by a young John Goodman as a beat cop.
C.H.U.D. streams on Shudder.
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