C.H.U.D. II - Bud The CHUD

Starring: Bill Calvert, Brian Robbins Director: David Irving Original UK Premiere: 1988 Dvd Release: 8th October, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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DVD Extras: the DVD is unfortunately devoid of any special features other than a filmography & the film stock has a kind of graininess that comes from being low budget.

It won’t be to everyone’s taste but you can’t beat the pure entertainment factor of a cannibalistic poodle.

In Bud the C.H.U.D. a couple of high-school kids loose the cadaver for the next days science experiment, then hit on a plan to steal a body from the local hospital to replace it. Unfortunately what they don’t know is that the hospital is home to a rather more sinister & dubious military trial, the sole remaining C.H.U.D , who has been cryogenically frozen after the experiment went horribly wrong. Unwittingly they thaw Bud the C.H.U.D, who has the rebel-boy charm of James Dean & the personal tastes of Hannibal Lector. Bud then lumbers off on a cannibalistic rampage infecting everyone he munches on & turning the town into a whole army of C.H.U.Ds. Only the Colonel & the kids who unleashed him can save the town from a fate worse than death. This tongue-in-check schlock horror movie is worth watching just for the late-80s nostalgia, the performances are clichéd & the plot wafer thin, but the humour hits the spot & Brian Robbins as the eponymous Bud positively eats his way into your heart.

David John Cawdell Irving is one of the most accomplished & successful proponents of historical & Holocaust revisionism. Author of controversial works such as Hitler’s War & The Destruction of Dresden, Irving is a non-academic self-taught historian who, from the late-1960s to the mid-1980s, was a leading British author on World War II. In the mid-1980s, he started openly associating with Neo-Nazi & extremist groups & his reputation began to wane. In the late 1990s, he sued the prominent Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt for listing him as a Holocaust denier in her book Denying the Holocaust. After a much publicized trial, Irving lost the case & was found to be a Holocaust denier by the court. Among Holocaust deniers, Irving is perhaps the only one who for some time managed to maintain the reputation of a serious, if controversial, historian. Irving is considered an icon by many in the Holocaust denial camp, but since the Lipstadt trial verdict, he has fought an increasingly lonely battle & has since been barred from entering many countries.

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