C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.
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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. is a 1988 horror-comedy film. It is a loose sequel to C.H.U.D., mostly in name though the ties do carry on into dialogue and plot. As in the first film, C.H.U.D stands for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller", but the alternative acronym (Containment Hazardous Urban Disposal) is not carried over.
Cast
The film features Brian Robbins (later a TV producer for Nickelodeon), Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher (sister of Joely, half-sister of Carrie), Gerrit Graham (as the titular character) and veteran TV actors Robert Vaughn and June Lockhart and Norman Fell.Plot
At the start of the film, the US Government has ordered a branch of the US Military to discontinue tests concerning "the C.H.U.D. project", which is built around the idea that enzymes taken from the sewer dwelling creatures from C.H.U.D. can make hyper-effective killing machines in the army (ie. a soldier that can never die and vicious enough to show no mercy). For reasons that are unclear even to those who watch the film, the last specimen of the experiment (BUD the C.H.U.D.) is hidden away in a Centre for Disease Control in a small American town, where a trio of bumbling teenagers (Steve, the worldly loud-mouth, Kevin, the nerd, and Katie, their hot girl friend) accidentally steal and reawaken him. Bud escapes and begins to forge an army of CHUDs (which are, in fact, more or less zombies in this film) while harbouring a deep love for Katie.Controversy
This film is infamous in the horror film community for being sitcom-level and idiotically written. The film only has the most tenuous of ties with its predecessor, despite both the title and poster, which depicts creatures from the first film climbing out of the sewers. The tone and intent of the film is completely different. Unlike the serious, 1950s tone of the original, C.H.U.D. II actually bears much more of a resemblance to the horror comedy mix of the Return of the Living Dead series, but instead of zombies shouting "brains", in C.H.U.D. II it is simply "Meat!".In fact, many people have mentioned the strange ties the plot has with both Return of the Living Dead III, a different zombie film made later which also featured the military taming zombies for their own gain in biological warfare, and Encino Man, which also features a mismatched pair of outcasts accidentally uncovering a world weary fish-out-of-water, though in that film it was a caveman, not Bud the C.H.U.D.
The character of "BUD", a former soldier turned dead flesh-eater/killing machine being domesticated by the army, is an apparent parody of "Bub" from George A. Romero's Day of the Dead.
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