C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Year: 1988
Director: David Irving
Written by: M. Kane Jeeves
Threat: Undead
Weapon of Choice: Teeth
Based upon: none
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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the ChudYear: 1988 Director: David Irving Written by: M. Kane Jeeves Threat: Undead Weapon of Choice: Teeth Based upon: none IMDb page: |
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C.H.U.D.
The tyranist's thoughts
In the first movie of the series, zombies walked the earth. They weren't really that
scary, but at least they were zombies. At least, the director was trying to make a
decent, scary zombie movie. Whoever came up with the sequel had no such intentions
and it shows.
After the events of the first movie, the government decides to stop funding the C.H.U.D.
program. The last remaining C.H.U.D. is frozen and relocated to a CDC facility in
a small town. Three teenagers trying to get a good grade in Biology steal the C.H.U.D.
and manage to reanimate it. Idiocy ensues.
The acting wasn't spectacular, but, unfortunately, they were working within the confines
of a script and direction that was destined to make a stupid movie. There were a couple
lines of background dialogue that made me laugh, but most of the lines delivered by
the actors fell flat. Additionally, the filmmakers seem to lack a basic understanding
of what makes things funny and what makes things scary as it accomplished neither
of those effects.
My biggest complaint is that the C.H.U.D.s apparently walked around taking a bite
out of people's brains. I know this because there is a conversation in the movie telling
me that this is what they do. They had to have a conversation about it because
absolutely no violence or gore is shown on screen. Additionally, all the people who
are bit and subsequently walking around as C.H.U.D.s exhibit no head wounds
whatsoever. It really bothered me.
Anyway, I just thought that the movie was stupid and, if possible, inferior to the
first movie. You can check it out if you'd like, but be prepared to be disappointed.
Total Skulls: 26
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| Sequel setup | |
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| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | |
Larry Linville |
| Bad title | |
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| Bad premise | |
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| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | |
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| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | |
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| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | |
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| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | |
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| Fake scare | |
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| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | |
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| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | |
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| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | |
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| Little kid lamely survives | |
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| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | |
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| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | |
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| Unbelievably crappy ending | |
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| What the hell? | |