C.H.U.D. was a big hit in the early days of home video and has now been cleaned up by Anchor Bay on DVD (although again this seems to be a different cut than the one I remember all those years ago).

It’s a low-budget tale of monsters created in the New York drains by toxic waste, and is mainly notable for the number of actors who went on to greater things – John Heard, Daniel Stern, John Goodman, Kim Greist and Jon Polito among them.

Heard and Stern turn up on the commentary track, which is one of the funniest I’ve heard. Well worth checking out if you’ve got a taste for this sort of thing.

Mild Peril Rating:

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