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Brian Robbins, C.H.U.D. 2, Gerrit Graham, Judd Omen, June Lockhart, Larry Linville, Norman Fell, Rich Hall, Robert Vaughn, Tricia Leigh Fisher
Okay, that’s it. I’m officially never going to be surprised by anything again. I can’t believe I’m forced to say this, but C.H.U.D. 2 is the best movie on the Lionsgate Horror 8 Pack unless The Unholy turns out to be better. I love this movie! It’s a cheesy 80s comedy with zombies, and lands about one level below Night of the Creeps in quality. I wish I was being facetious.
The mulleted guy from Head of the Class and his much smarter friend steal a body from their local CDC for reasons I could not determine and take it home to mullet’s bathroom. Helping them is Tricia Leigh Fisher, who I loved in the movie Pretty Smart but had forgotten about; she is hot, smart, and will help you steal a body, so, get in line, guys. (Also, she wears the cutest one piece bathing suit I’ve ever seen in the big showdown section of the movie. But I digress.)
Anyway, it turns out that the guy who used tell me to tell them I mean business on the back of my phone book, who is hamming it up as an asshole army general, wants the dead body back to make the perfect undead soldier out of it. But by this time the body has thawed out and become a C.H.U.D. Cue the C.H.U.D., which I am henceforth going to refer to as a zombie because that’s what it is and it’s faster to type the word “zombie,” going around town in a montage while a song whose lyrics are about the movie plays. It’s like I’m winning at 80s movie bingo here.
This movie also contains: a zombie poodle, that guy who did the Sniglets, the TV Frank Burns as a smoking drinking coroner, the guy who cut the tag off the mattress in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, a guy who’s dorky looking until he takes off his glasses, and some nice group choreography of a jitterbug at a dance with a rockabilly band playing while the white people dance is also being done. Oh, yeah, and zombie Norman Fell.
Also, the pace is perfect, just as fast as I like it, with wall-to-wall hilarious dialogue. Seriously, I started writing down the funny lines but I realized the entire post would be full of them, with no context. So you’ll just have to watch the movie.
P.S. Is there a site that shows screencaps of all the Meaningful Movie Marquees that movies use in homage to other movies? There should be. Let’s start one, if not. C.H.U.D. 2 has a marquee advertising John Huston’s The Dead. Nice!
theipc said:
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? This movie was good? The first one was so awful… and hey, wait – are you dogging Night of the Creeps? I’ll have you know that’s one of my favorite movies and I have the super DEE-luxe Blu-Ray here to prove it
Because that proves everything HAHA. Nice work!
Wednesday's Child said:
I know, I couldn’t believe it, but it’s just a fun movie…and I have the no special features, cheap Walmart collection to prove it!
mistylayne said:
For some reason, I thought this movie was about creatures that live in toilets…..but this sounds awesome!
Wednesday's Child said:
It is very funny. I don’t like a lot of horror comedies, because they often try too hard, but this was fun.
James said:
I’ve avoided this like the plague for years because the first one bored me out of my mind. It doesn’t sound like either movie really wants to show you what a C.H.U.D. is, but I’m definitely keen to give this one a go now!
Wednesday's Child said:
I had avoided this too, but how would I have known? It’s a lot of fun, and it shows lots of C.H.U.D.s. I actually haven’t seen the first one, though.
E.F. Contentment (@EFContentment) said:
“The mulleted guy from Head of the Class”, or as I like to call him, the director of the immortal Good Burger. No joke about the “immortal” part; they filmed that a few blocks away from my parent’s house and I spent many an after-school walk home stopping by the set to watch all that mischief being printed onto celluloid.
Haven’t seen C.H.U.D. 2: Money Never Sleeps in years, but I think there was a bit with a zombie hiding under a tarp and telling someone he was “working undercover”? Or has my mind already begun to leak out of my orifices, like so much waste? Anyway, I’m off to look for my LASERDISC of Good Burger and I don’t care who knows it!
(Because shame left this building a very long time ago)
Wednesday's Child said:
If you remember a corny one-liner, it probably was in the movie, because that was what made up most of the dialogue. I wish I still had my laserdiscs! Good Burger was very popular when it came out on video. We could not keep it on the shelves in either of the stores I worked in. Also perpetually rented: Breakin’. For what reason I do not know, but it went out every day for several years.