IT ISN'T C.H.U.D...and that's a bummer

Rating: 2/10 (2 December 2019)

...in the opening scene we see a CHUD VHS on a shelf. As a genre fan and one who came to this movie aware of the negative reviews, I knew immediately where this was going...an homage, I thought to a flick I enjoyed...perhaps all these folks who gave this a 1 - just didn't get it.
Only us fellow CHUD fans would.
Spoiler to follow.
Like CHUD, US follows a number of films that explore the idea of a race of people who live underground.
Like CHUD, the underground dwellers are there due to an evil gov experiment.
CHUDS eat homeless...US eats rabbits - the rabbits eat - nothing I guess...and that's where the similarities - unfortunately- end.
Where CHUD followed goofy CHUD logic and stuck to the rules it established...US just wings it from scene to scene culminating with an ending twist that smashes the entire premise.
As millions of undiscovered US emerge from the depths - there is no law enforcement interaction. No media coverage. No plucky band of oddballs who work together to stop the US invasion.
...to fair, the acting was on par with CHUD - mediocre...but the humorous CHUD dialog wasn't.
In CHUD, we learn the why and how of the mutants...in US, we get no logical explanation...something about a tether that makes no sense. They just emerge en masse wearing identical red cloths and - somehow - locate their surface dweller clone and try to kill them. No one shoots them.
Then, bizarrely, they form a human chain that reminded me of the old Coke commercial...
I half expected them to start singing "I'd love to buy the world a Coke."
Watch C.H.U.D. It's better.