one of the opening image in c. h. u. d be a full on shot of a truck banner read slow move vehicle . that the most valid image in the whole movie . under manhattan and mysterious creature terrorize the homeless who live in the sewer and and begin strike those who walk the street as well . when one disappearance involve a precinct captain wife and the captain start investigate the situation by ask around a neighborhood soup kitchen . the captain and bosch and be play by christopher curry and a here and go martin mull lookalike whose casual handling of his wife disappearance would come off a absurd if we hadn not previously get a load of what she look like . while curry be the main actor and two good know name have key support role and daniel stern a the grimy soup kitchen director ( only the destitute would accept a meal from him ) and john heard a a photographer . heard character have little to do with the story and and the way he bring in be lazy and force . he have some photo of streetpeople and and one homeless woman call him for bail . he take a photo of a gored leg that show something sinister be go on and though all i saw be bad make up . through most of the film and we see him blow off deadline and interact unaffectionately with his live in girlfriend and play by kim griest . heard here be smug and charmless and yet we be suppose to be impress by him because he play by the great john heard . the torpor and aimlessness of c. h. u. d. amaze me . sewer creature rise up in the big city be not a bad concept and but not only do the film fail to do anything with it and we get a lot of inert moment where people trade cliché ridden dialogue like represent keep a lid on it . nothing and huh . sound interesting . watch your step and bosch and remember you do not belong here . i do not believe you . what be you try to hide . there a stonewalling government official play by george martin who bulge his eye and sneer at every question and give u an obvious central villain since the budget be too cheap to show u much of the monster . the creature be mean to horrify but merely look like inept halloween window display and while the unbearable synthesize score sound like a seven year old toying with a department store display organ . then you get goofy sequence like the one where griest be in a shower and get drench in blood and and be next see dry and unfazed . must have set the shower control on bobby ewing . the whole movie be like that and jump from effect to effect and hit u with little shock moment here and there and not tie anything in . this be not scary and just annoy . it true i do not see the director cut and which be a bit longer and show one c. h. u. d. attack in the middle rather than at the end of the film and where it make less sense . but whatever the editing and the product on screen be deadly dull and and surprisingly unfunny give it endure cult reputation . c. h. u. d get mention a an askew satire and but just isn not in the same class a tremor or return of the living dead and let alone an evil dead film . to recite another cliché represent you have be warn .