On a quick glance of this episode’s title, you may think we are talking about the Underground Film Movement. But that’s a highbrow topic and that’s not why you come to Slums of Film History. You come here for the actual horrible things that are underground. The mutant zombie CHUDs that climb out of the sewers to eat rich people’s dogs. You come for the early sci-fi films that somehow found dinosaurs and prehistoric monsters leftover from millions of years ago by drilling down into the earth. You come for the mutant praying mantises that disguise themselves as people in the subway tunnels of New York City. You come for alien killer clowns that emerge from underground to kill kids every 27 years. And of course you come for Sloth. Today we go deep down into the ground, all the way to the earth’s core and back to find out what’s lurking below, down in the Ugly Underground.
LINKS TO SOME OF THE MOVIES WE TALK ABOUT
Unknown World (free on Youtube)
The Mole People (free on Archive)
C.H.U.D. (free on Tubi)
The Goonies (3.49 on Amazon Prime)
The Descent ($3.99 on Amazon Prime)
It (free on Hulu)
Us (3.49 on Youtube)
Barbarian ($3.99 on Youtube)
