C.H.U.D. (1984)

"C.H.U.D." is truly one of those weird little films that defied the odds and reached cult status; no one apparently saw this movie when it came out in theaters but everyone knows about it! It has a great concept, talented actors that include a young Daniel Stern and John Heard ("Cat People"), and decent looking creepy C.H.U.D.s aka Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. The action starts early on and stays pretty constant, which is helped by the energetic performances of the three main characters. This is one to most defeinetly watch and enjoy or at least to see and understand all of the jokes that "The Simpsons" make about the film.


The citizens New York city, particularly the homeless, are being the main food source for nasty little mutants that hide in the vast underground world of old buildings and sewers. Police Captain Bosch, photographer George Cooper, and soup kitchen AJ "The Reverend" Shepherd all become involved in trying to figure out what's really happening beneath New York City and soon find that the C.H.U.D.s are a direct result of another kind of C.H.U.D - Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal, and that the head of the Nuclear Regulartory Commission is just as dangerous as the mutant cannibals themselves.

Leviathan (1989)

"Leviathan" was one of those cheesy monster movies that I loved to watch in the middle of a summer day when it felt to hot to go outside. It is one the several films that takes place deep underwater that came out in the late 1980's. It's a fun, stupid, and engaging monster flick with some memorable actors from that time including Peter Weller ("Robo-Cop" and "Buckaroo Bonzai"), Ernie Hudson ("Ghostbusters" and "The Crow"), and Richard Crenna (the "Rambo" series). The special effects were decent for the time and the movie holds up fairly well if you are looking for a cheesy monster flick. "Leviathan" is like "The Thing", but underwater but not nearly as cool.


Steven Beck is leading a mining crew deep underwater. During their six month long assignment, one of the miners, a dumb-ass named Six Pack, comes across a sunken Russian vessel named "Leviathan". The crew breaks into the vessel's safe and take the records showing how the crew died and the captain's video log; Six Packs pockets a flask of vodka that was also in the safe. Six Pack drinks the vodka which happens to be tainted with some sort of mutagen that the Russians were experimenting with. Six Pack dies and his body starts to mutate. The rest of the crew is now trapped after Six Pack's mutated body comes to life and begins to attack them. Even after they are able to "flush" out the corpse, a piece of him remains in the base and transforms into a murderous creature. The crew is trapped within as a storm rages above and time is running out....