Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #CHUD, from 1984, was a delectable smorgasbord of hands, arms, legs, feet, and heads! We also had,

Now that was a QUALITY explosion. You know they were using real fire back then.

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It exploded for some reason, whoo! #Monsterdon

I didn't know there was a Pinto truck
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What are you going to do, shoot me?
~Man before being shot
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FUCK YOU WILSON

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Very intense music for a parallel parking scene. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe I mean the ocean is right there!
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Remember when the press was such a force of good that you could threaten bad guys with it? Ahhh, those were the days.

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@bunnyhero following #cabininthewoods rules #monsterdon

they're weak to decapitation!!

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Why does it have an elastic neck?
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If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. A darkroom that doesn't double as a panic room is a waste of space. #monsterdon

@brooke

"They mostly CHUD out at night... mostly"

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nice callback to fallen assault team

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#monsterdon "Containment Hazard Urban Disposal"!? Have we been being fed a pack of lies this whole time?? By a _government agency_!?

MTBCBE is getting shorter and shorter (mean time between cops being eaten)

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i keep expecting this repeated note to turn into "o superman" #monsterdon

@SordidAmok fully on team CHUD/Morlock #monsterdon

Wow in the midst of a chud cconversion. The plot thickens

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forced chuddification #monsterdon

There’s always a dead dog, a naked chick, a dumb kid #80shorror #monsterdon

Right after her shower explodes in blood she.... goes back to flower arranging?? Like nothing happened?

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Ahhh, the CHUD won't eat the Unhoused but will devour the Bourgeoise!

Finally the Revolution is here!

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#monsterdon Oh nooooo, Psycho-evoking shower scene! (That two-spigot showerhead looks like a budget Johnny Five from Short Circuit.)

Wait WHAT why did the clogged shower drain just spew blood?!

"They're in the walls, man! They're INSIDE THE ROOM!"

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The CHUD leader: "Come Daniel Stern. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man."

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Val, killed by the Coineater, so harsh....

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"flood the whole city with flammable gas"

What could go wrong?

Even better, don't tell anyone you're doing it too!

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"I don't have your pictures" Guy has a leica and doesn't have his own negatives? Sigh....

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"We have a flat in Manhattan so large I have a Dark Room"

Oligarchs.

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Love it when the camera goes dead, always a sucker for that

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NYPD has flame thrower teams.

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Are they going to do Aliens "using live cam feed and then walking into a trap" thing?

did Cameron rip off CHUDs?!

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I can believe the NYPD can assemble a team of flamethrowers within hours.

Deal with crime, no.

Play with flamethrowers, yes.

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Putting a coin in your mouth after it went through a NYC payphone? Have fun melting from the inside-out. #monsterdon

"What does C.H.U.D. stand for?!"

Well we've been having some fun with that today!

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#Monsterdon the NRC guy reminds me so much of the suits that I grew up around in the 80’s. That look. That tone. Makes me all punchy-pokey. LOL.

I like soup kitchen guy more and more.

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#Monsterdon I love that, “slightly” by a billion rads. The street glowed.

@Taweret #monsterdon
There’s clearly no contest.

cool monster!

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Was the Blonde the girl from Brazil, the Terry Gilliam film?

Also, I do not care about this middle class couple's life together.

But, don't bring a child into this world, they will resent you for it by 2025

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#monsterdon MONSTER GROWL

(Not necessarily, that could have been like a metal grating or something being pulled aside. In any case, great foley work there.)

""You gonna have a baby?"

No, the other kind of pregante...

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Is there a bingo square for radioactive waste? There must be.

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Ahhh, 'nuclear waste is magic'

Love that trope.

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Oh, so his wife was walking the dog and got snatched by sewer monsters and *now* he cares enough to talk to a wet bandit at the soup kitchen. ACAB.

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Okay, listen I can suspend my disbelieve about cannibal monsters under NYC but a NYPD captain living in the Village? Really?

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why are they depicting unhoused people as like coal miners #monsterdon

"Get da hell outta here!"

Another very American phrase I look for in movies, particularly in a New York accent.

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Unstable undergrounder is instantly my favorite character. #Monsterdon #CHUD

This guy kinda looks like Stephen King.
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@Lazarou This is part of the Petersen myth. I'm SURE he showed up on set and was like "how can I be a hotshot fashion photographer without a hot babe to fu... I mean, shoot" and the Producer was all "Bill you were just supposed to play a street cop"

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@Taweret

Sam McMurray

known for Raising Arizona (1987), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) and L.A. Story (1991).

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573481/?ref_=tt_cst_t_12

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#monsterdon "Look, I don't want to bore you with crime statistics, but just between you and me: they're not going down."

Really fundamental change between the 80s and now, that little line right there.

JUMP SCARE!!!!!!!!

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This is Oscar worthy. It is plain to see that they got snubbed over politics. #monsterdon

Both these people play generic white people in many TV shows later, but I will not remember which shows

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I wonder what percentage of the movie’s budget went toward that Leica.

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I saw dearly departed Gene Hackman wear a mac like that in The Conversation last night

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MUSIC COMPOSED
AND PERFORMED BY
COOPER HUGHES

Thank you, Cooper, for your contributions

#monsterdon MONSTER GRAB

Well that took no time at all. However we should have checked DoesTheDogDie.com I think

CHUD 2 is on Tubi

https://tubitv.com/movies/321117/c-h-u-d-ii-bud-the-chud

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@forestine I'm hoping there's a Directors cut that goes into more detail with that character, and whether the coin eating was a spur of the moment thing or a serious issue.... #monsterdon

A man who runs a soup kitchen notices his regulars go missing, but no one cares about the poor so he investigates it himself

A fashion photographer who really wants to be taken seriously does a photo exposé on the people and places under Manhattan

A "good cop" 😬 wonders why certain disappearances are swept under the rug and find out about a government toxic waste conspiracy

Pick TWO at most

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And so many cameos of people who went on to do much better movies. There were a few I recognized, but couldn't place them, so I couldn't do the "That guy was in..." gag.

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That was rich! An absolutely terrible movie, but really rich. A lot of material. I was riffing so hard, I was barely finished a toot and ready for the next one. Really good stuff.

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An enjoyable movie that did not need 3 protagonists whose plots only intersect sometimes

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@srol and MIME COP....man that film was a beauty! #monsterdon

Damn. That was pretty decent! #Monsterdon

Loving the Luigi Mangione approach to City Hall corruption, Cop approved as well!

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So I first saw the VHS copy of CHUD at the rental section in Kroger when I was 10.

It looked like a bad movie, and I never watched it, but made fun of it plenty.

That’s my #monsterdon story.

It is not lost on how this film got recently distributed for this weekend.

C.H.U.D. is like The Gorgon in that the writing/plot (and possibly pacing) are the weak parts, but everything else is fine.

Like, these are A-movie problems!

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@SordidAmok I'm tellin' ya, the crocodiles will take care of 'em

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#monsterdon Bosch gets to the storm drain cover at the very last minute, and is shot in the back by the NRC guy! AJ and Cooper just barely make it out of the sewer, only to be attacked by the now-murderous NRC guy in the truck that was blocking the manhole! AJ takes aim and puts the last bullet from Bosch's revolver through the windshield and the NRC guy, also igniting the panel truck in a shower of sparks! ROLL CREDITS

"Filmed in CHUD Studios"

Wonder if they're still going?

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So the sewers are still full of CHUDs? And now they got a taste for cheeseburgers and cops. #monsterdon

The end of Wilson was satisfying at least. #monsterdon

So post credits scene or are we just leaving it be that she totally got bit by the radiation zombie? #monsterdon

@allanb or the key to the schitty --Sean Connery #Monsterdon

Bosch, No!

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It's an 80s movie alright.

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Oh it's a Pinto!
Scratch that gotta update for 2025.
It's a Cybertruck!
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ah: the bullet stopped the forward-momentum of the—GOOD LORD IT EXPLODED

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I love this synth soundtrack.

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My ice cream truck ALWAYS bursts into flames when I hit a pot hole. #monsterdon

Hey Man, Nice Shot!

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You know what this movie needs right now?

A couple of frogs on a July 4th cake. #monsterdon

Uhhh... Cannibalistic My Ass would be CMA, not CHUD. #monsterdon

@strangefour Elastic neck was a movie trick for screen beheadings—they just decided to lean into it. #monsterdon

Lol thoughtful of him to grow that long juicy neck for chopping

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She just got bit by disembodied CHUD head so that DEFINITELY means she's going to have a CHUD baby, right?

It'll be an infectCHUD

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Is this Re-Animator?

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YEA, the severed CHUD head bit her leg. 😀
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With a CHUD infestation like that, the rent should drop to a very affordable $7500/month #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I love the severed thing that keeps going trope. Also a bit in Halloween III

Why do people think it's over? Mine has 10 minutes left? And I don't have ads...

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Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal!. TWIST! #Monsterdon #CHUD

Contamination
Hazard
Urban
Disposal

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