Sooner or later, all monsters end up hiding in a sewer.
Heres our list of 10 particularly fine B-movie drainage systems…
If you were a hideous monster mutated by toxic waste or radiation, where would you hide?
In the warmth of a garden shed?
In the car stereo section of Halfords, perhaps?
Of course you wouldnt.
No, Gordon Douglas creature featureThem!
No doubt a young James Cameron was watching this sequence, and quietly taking notes.
Alligator II: The Mutationfollowed 11 years later, and wasnt very good.
Scared To Death (1981)
A quite obscure film that may have inspired the better-knownC.H.U.D.
Scared To Deathwas followed by Syngenor nine years later, which wasnt very good.
And people in general.
In fact, the CHUDs will eat just about anything, as long as its alive.
II: Bud The C.H.U.D., which wasnt very good.
The Blob,Id argue, is one of the more underrated horror flicks of the 80s.
Theres also a great sequence where a mans pulled headfirst down a plughole.
The sewer is, however, the home to three rats.
Seminal creature feature Them!
The real star ofMimicis del Toros direction.
How can we tell?
