Stocking stuffers…

Updated on November 15, 2010 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

Another in our series of bargain items to stash away as emergency presents.  Today’s selection is the DVD for C.H.U.D., not just a highly enjoyable hunks of ’80s uber-junk, but the disc has what is easily one of the top five most fun commentaries I’ve ever heard.  All for $6.50 at Amazon!  You can’t beat it (particularly with the free shipping on orders over $25.)

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  • BeckoningChasm

    It’s a fun movie, and the commentary is easily the best I’ve heard.

  • Yeah, that commentary is hilarious. Everyone involved sounded like even their bad memories about it were fun memories.

  • zombiewhacker

    Six Million Dollar Man is also due for a DVD release soon.

  • I’m always telling people it is the best commentary track I’ve ever heard. Daniel Stern impersonating Bob Dylan as the film’s narrator forced me to pause the disc to recover I was laughing so hard. What’s even funnier is how the writer of the film does sound genuinely bitter about certain things. Hate to break the news to him but if he’d gotten his way and the CHUDs only looked like homeless zombies instead of glowy-eyed, green-skinned monsters nobody would remember CHUD today. The film’s cheesy acronym title and those glowy-eyed sewer monsters are what truly make that slice of 80’s cheese so memorable.

  • Rock Baker

    My brother picked up what he thought was a tape for this, but it runed out to be the sequel stuffed into the wrong box. I’ve never seen it, but I’d like to.

    My favorite commentary tracks were the ones recorded for the Larry Blamire flicks Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Dark And Stormy Night. The former was funnier than the film itself.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Yeah the Stern-as-Dylan bit was a clear highlight. Second would be when the director realizes that, hey, this IS the director’s cut.

  • The Rev.

    “My brother picked up what he thought was a tape for this, but it runed out to be the sequel stuffed into the wrong box. I’ve never seen it, but I’d like to.”

    This happened to me in college with The Hills Have Eyes. I never did watch that tape. I still haven’t seen the original, either, dammit.

  • JoshG

    I actually just finished watching this for the first time this evening. It’s a pretty fun movie.

  • Rock Baker

    I rented the Hammer Mummy once, and when I got home discovered it was the 33 version. I guess this must be more of a regular occurance than I imagined!

  • Reed

    My favorite commentary tracks are on the first two Uwe Boll movies. I know this his movies are pretty universally panned, but the commentaries are truly performance art. The fact that they are totally sincere and un-ironic just make them all the more entertaining. The one for Alone in the Dark where he explains German film financing was a real eye opener, and I have read it quoted by many people on various internet forums. Then he gets to the part where he explains that he was conentrating on the technical aspects of film-making, and special effects shots, and was taken completely by surprise that people actually wanted a decent story…