August 31, 1984 –
The sci-fi film C.H.U.D. (cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers) directed by Douglas Cheek, and starring John Heard, Daniel Stern, and Christopher Curry, opened on this date. An urban legend in 1985 suggested that this was based on a true story that happened in Cincinnati in the 1970s.
In 2011, as an April Fool’s Day joke, the Criterion Collection, the USA’s most prestigious distributor of home video, announced that it was releasing a special-edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc of the film with spine number 573. It was later assigned to The Music Room, but C.H.U.D. did receive a special edition Blu-ray release from Arrow Video in 2016.
The Haus of Dcaligari 