But he underestimated the fan base and C.H.U.D. II was pretty much universally reviled.
The movie sees a couple of kids steal a corpse from a military base as part of a hazing ritual and instead unleash Bud.
It would be upsetting to think that some people’s perspective on the awesome C.H.U.D. legacy would come from the cheeseball 1989 comedy sequel C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud, a weirdo movie that has almost zero to do with the taut, smart original film save for cribbing the title.
It’s crazy that Doug Cheek’s 1984 sewer chewer classic C.H.U.D. has become part of the collective pop culture dialect and yet so many have never seen it.