Warning: This article contains major spoilers aboutUs.
Read at your own risk!
Early inUs, we clearly see a videotape with “CHUD” written on its side.
What is “CHUD”?
Glad you asked!CHUD or, more accurately,C.H.U.D.
stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller and is the title of a low budget 1984 horror film.
C.H.U.D.earned more than $4 million at the box office, inspired a sequel (1989’sC.H.U.D.
II: Bud the C.H.U.D.
), and has become something of a cult favorite over the years.
In a 2014 interview with theA.V.
Club, Stern even mentioned that he had hopes of turning it into a Broadway musical.
“That’s a movie that we put together, just friends,” Stern said.
“Everybody in it was a friend.
Our friend [Shep Abbott] wrote it.
He had the idea forC.H.U.D.John Heard, Christopher Curry, and I starred in it.
The director [Douglas Cheek] was a friend…
The people who turned to C.H.U.D.s were just actors who turned into cannibals.
But then so you can sell it as a horror movie, they added in theseterribleslimy things.
Watch the trailer forC.H.U.D.
